We’re back from the break Wellonytes!

Phew! What a year 2024 was, I trust you all had a wonderful, weird and well deserved end to the year.

Now were into 2025 and already it’s packing a punch!

Heres what we have for you this issue…

Take back the reins on your schedule with AI tools designed to streamline your day ⏰ and AI productivity hacks that’ll have you smashing your 2025 goals with ease.

Discover the cutting-edge AI that can track your microbiome's unique signature🕵️‍♂️🦠 and step into the future with China’s virtual hospital, where medical care meets digital innovation 🩺. 🧠

And of course, remember that Well Wired ⚡ ALWAYS serves you the latest AI-health, productivity and personal growth insights, ideas, news and prompts from around the planet. We’ll do the research so you don’t have to! ❤️‍🧬

🤖 Well Wired is constructed with AI and created by humans  👱

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We Hope You Had a Happy New Year!

Todays wire:

🗞️ Main Stories AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• Take Back Control of Your Time with AI!  ⏰ 

• Crush 2025 With This AI Goal-Setting Hack 🧠

• New AI Tracks You Via Bacteria On Your Skin 🕵️‍♂️🦠 

• China’s Got a Virtual Hospital 🩺

💡Learning & Laughs AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• 💡AI Tip of the Day (Take Back Control of Your Time with AI!  ⏰)

• ⚡Supercharge + Optimise 🔋 (AI tools & resources)

• 📺️ Must watch AI videos (These AI podcasters thought they were real!? ☠️ )

• 🎒AI Micro-class (Turn Journaling from a Chore to a Habit 📝⚡)

• 📸 AI Image Gallery (Ancient Japanese Samurai’s and Sages ⚔️ )

Read time: 6 minutes

✅ AI Tip of The Day ✅

Take Back Control of Your Time with AI!  ⏰

Ever find yourself stuck in the doom-scroll spiral when you should be working? 😅 Well now those empty hours are not entirely wasted!

This AI prompt will help you craft a new plan that will help you reclaim your precious time and get laser focused all at once. With a little AI magic, you’ll transform your 2024 scrolling habits into supercharged productivity for 2025!

Here’s the prompt:

Create a detailed, and actionable, social media time-blocking plan tailored to my workday schedule [ add schedule here ] using the Eisenhower matrix. Suggest strategies like the pomodoro technique for sticking to these time blocks and provide tips to overcome the temptation to check social media during focus hours.

AI Tool to Supercharge This Tip 💡

Meet Freedom 🌳 the AI-powered app that blocks distractions across all your devices. Set your social media time-blocks with Freedom, and it’ll police them by locking you out when temptation strikes. No more sneaky scrolls!

Your Productivity Wins 🚀

Reclaim two focused hours daily, crush deadlines and say adieu to time-wasting guilt. You’ve got this!

🤔  What’s your biggest social media distraction? 🤌

🗞️ On The Wire (Main Stories) 🗞️

Discover the most popular AI wellbeing, productivity and self-growth stories, news, trends and ideas impacting humanity in the past 7-days!

AI Productivity 🛠️

The AI Goal-Setting Hack: Crush 2025 Without Breaking a Sweat 🧠⚡

🔥 Resolution Burnout Is Real 🔥 

The University of Scranton says that just 8% of people stick to their goals. Feeling hopeful? Best-case scenario: 20%. And according to Strava, January 12 is when most people tap out.

Here are more dire goal setting stats:

• Goal achievement: People who set goals are 43% more likely to achieve them.
  

• Goal tracking: People who submit weekly accountability reports achieve 40% more than those who don't.
  

• Goal writing: 48% of goal-setters always write their goals down.
  

• Goal time-bound: Those who set time-bound goals are 40% more likely to succeed than those who don't.
  

• Goal type in the US: 80% of adults in the U.S. set personal health or fitness goals, and 69% set financial goals.

Source: 11 surprising goal setting stats

So, if you’re still hustling after January 12th, give yourself a massive high five—because you’re crushing it! ✋

But what if planning, and sticking, to your 2025 goals didn’t feel like navigating a maze with no map and a blindfold on?

Goals are the rocket fuel for a life worth living—without them, you're just running up and down the field, ball in hand, but never scoring.

The problem?

Most people don’t even bother setting them, let alone blocking out the time to chase them. But here’s the thing: when you do, even if you move as slowly as a tortoise, even 1% at a time, you’re still moving towards something beautiful. 🐢

And now AI can help! You’ve got no more excuses!

With your tireless, non-complaining digital co-pilot working on your productivity for you, you can now set and achieve goals easier, eliminate ‘fake’ busy work and plan like Napoleon conquering Europe—leaving more time for what truly matters.

Like that ‘House of the Dragon’ episode you missed last week! 🐉

AI-powered hacks to streamline your 2025 plan—so you can stop spinning wheels and start smashing goals.💡

But I get it, planning for the year ahead can feel like a Herculean task.

However, with AI in your corner, it’s not “Where do I start?” but “What’s next on my empire-building agenda?” From automating the boring stuff to sharpening your focus and whipping up actionable plans, AI can help you turn the tasks and thoughts on your goal-setting plan from rusty ideas into a well-oiled machine. 🚀

Here’s how!

Cease

First, AI can help you stop the chaos and get you super, duper-focused on your goals. Now a hyper-specific prompt like the one below turns fuzzy dreams into crystal-clear objectives.

Help me outline six priorities for each of my three major goals for 2025 [add three goals here e.g. health, wealth, relationships] and use these goal setting techniques [add techniques here e.g. the EXACT goal setting model and Pomodoro] to help me achieve my three major goals.

Want to level up this prompt?

Mix in the EXACT model (Explicit, eXciting, Assessable, Challenging, Time-framed), the Pomodoro Technique (25-minute focus sprints with guilt-free breaks) and the Eisenhower Matrix (urgent vs. important task triage).

Together, they’re like the holy trinity of productivity—helping you clear distractions, prioritise like a pro and actually achieve what matters. 🚀

Cut

Next, you cut the clutter by eliminating time-wasters and automating repetitive tasks. Tools like Zapier streamline workflows, while ChatGPT, or Claude, drafts delegation emails in seconds and Superhuman helps you cut out, and declutter, those annoying emails using the power of AI.

There are also AI-powered platforms like Motion to help you organise your calendar and remove non-urgent tasks, or AI agents to eliminate distractions and cut down on the million tabs, tasks and useless ideas bouncing around in your head. 🧠

Commit

Finally, you act with purpose, using AI to create thematic days, prioritise tasks, or block out distractions. Apps like Focus@Will and RescueTime keep you in the zone, ensuring your productivity peaks.

Now that you know how to cease, cut and commit to your goals, you’ll be armed with a month-by-month blueprint to make 2025 your personal highlight reel. 🎥✨

Learn how to harness AI for a productivity boost that saves time, reduces stress and helps you enjoy life.

“Don’t spend too much time on what is urgent, do what’s tied to your purpose, what’s important, then cut and delegate the rest. That way challenges will no longer discourage or exhaust you, but will inspire you to find another way!”

– Cedric J Chenefront

This quote isn’t just motivational wallpaper—it’s a strategy.

AI doesn’t just help you tick boxes; it empowers you to focus on what truly matters. By automating the mundane and aligning your actions with your purpose, you’re not just planning 2025; you’re designing it to inspire and energise you.

Now let’s break the cease, cut and commit matrix down into a step-by-step blueprint. 🚀

How to Dominate Your 2025 🧠✨

1. Cease: Clarify What Really Matters

• Start by identifying the goals that’ll light you up emotionally, professionally and physically. Think of them as your North Stars for 2025. No fluff, just purpose-driven focus.
  

• ChatGPT Prompt:

I want to define three major goals for 2025 that align with how I want to feel [e.g., empowered, balanced, accomplished]. Use the EXACT goal-setting framework to make them clear, exciting, and time-bound. Break each goal into actionable milestones, with a focus on what truly matters to me.

2. Cut: Eliminate the Energy Vampires

• Stop letting low-value tasks steal your focus. Automate, delegate, or bin them entirely. Tools like Zapier and Notion AI are your new productivity ninjas, making sure you work smarter, not harder.
  

• ChatGPT Prompt:

Help me create a plan to identify and eliminate low-value tasks. Suggest what I can automate or delegate using AI tools. Build a prioritisation system for my daily tasks using the Eisenhower Matrix.

3. Commit: Act And Stay Laser Focused:

• Set your week up with themes (e.g., admin Monday, creative Tuesday) and keep distractions at bay with techniques like Pomodoro. Remember, every distraction you conquer is a win for your future self.
  

• ChatGPT Prompt:

Design a weekly schedule based on task themes. Incorporate the Pomodoro Technique to structure focus blocks and breaks. Include strategies to handle distractions and maintain motivation while working toward my key goals for 2025.

Goal setting on steroids!

AI doesn't only streamline your goal-setting workflow; it creates a system where every task serves a purpose. By clarifying your goals, cutting out inefficiencies and focusing on what truly matters, you'll align your daily goal-setting actions with your bigger ambitions.

It's like having a personal productivity coach in your pocket—always on, always adapting and always ready to help you achieve more with less stress.

I know the power of using AI to help with self development, wellbeing and goal-setting more than most…

Juggling a high-stakes content strategist gig while running an AI wellness magazine on the side is like trying to sprint a marathon while juggling flaming swords—fun to watch, not so fun to live.

With just 10 hours a week to make the magic happen, I learned one harsh truth: overwhelm is the default setting.

Which is why nearly 2-years ago I turned to AI as my go-to tool!

Anyway, so I went full mad scientist, testing and stacking tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Otter.ai and HabitCoach AI until I cracked the code on productivity, wellbeing and self growth. Or at least my code.

Today AI is a sanity-saving best mate. It has become the Obi-Wan to my chaotic Darth Vader, helping me structure my writing, organise my day, elevate my wellbeing and turn my brain’s mess into something that actually makes sense.

The result?

The launch of WellWired and a highlight reel that includes features in The Big Smoke, partnerships with top companies, scientists and personalities adopting AI, and landing sweet gigs with some of the biggest names in the Australian corporate landscape.

Oh, and did I mention I’m a certified prompt master, Master Habit Coach, Hypnotherapist and a lay Zen monk? That means I approach wellbeing, productivity and self growth in AI with the kind of transparency, ethics and integrity your grandma would approve of.

The weird thing is that Zen and AI work well together! Especially when crafting AI-powered goals. I’ll write more about this, and SAI, in another issue.

You see, to me AI isn’t just a tool—it’s the ultimate productivity and goal setting coach with a killer sense of timing. My mission? Show you how to use it to smash your goals, uplift your wellbeing and maybe even find some inner peace along the way.

Now that you have my Cease, Cut, Commit goal setting matrix, let’s turn your chaos into clarity. (No flaming swords required.)

Key takeaways:

• AI can transform goal-setting into a structured and actionable process.
  

• Automating and delegating tasks frees up mental energy for high-value work.
  

• AI-powered focus and productivity tools keep distractions at bay, ensuring you stay on track.
  

• Using the Cease, Cut, Commit goal setting matrix will help you prompt your way to a goal smashing 2025!

Why AI goal-setting matters?

The pressure to do more, faster, is skyrocketing—like inflation, but for your to-do list. Traditional productivity hacks? They’re crumbling under the weight. Chronic stress and burnout have gone from “bad” to “your average Tuesday.”

Research shows that an unmanaged workload doesn’t just tank your productivity—it messes with your health and leaves your goals gathering dust.

With AI as your secret weapon against the chaos, you can now take back control.

By automating repetitive tasks and cutting decision fatigue, it frees up your mental bandwidth for the stuff that truly matters—whether that’s climbing the corporate ladder, complementing your personal growth, or just reclaiming your evenings for a family Netflix marathon.

But AI won’t just help you tick boxes. It will help you formulate a goal-setting system—and a life—that feels more meaningful and manageable.

What’s next?

Make 2025 the year you plug into, and buddy-up, with AI.

Start small: tools like Zapier and Notion AI can handle the boring admin, while ChatGPT doubles as your brainstorming BFF. And now with the advent of AI agents, building an AI-powered workflow where everything clicks together like LEGO bricks is easier than ever!

Next, supercharge your focus. Apps like RescueTime and Focus@Will keep your distractions in check, while Notion AI helps you track your progress in real time. Finally, make monthly check-ins non-negotiable—tweak and optimise your plan with AI insights as you go.

But remember, don’t just use AI to get even busier. Stay intentional and use AI to help you save the most precious resource in the Universe - TIME!

With AI in your corner, you’ll have the clarity and control to make 2025 your best year ever.

This is your time! Take it by the horns! 💪✨

Can you imagine a productivity system so efficient that it frees up hours each week? What would you do with the extra time? 🤔 

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Further Reading

• Try out these 5 AI goal setting apps in 2025

• Setting your 2025 goals using Notion and AI

• Blending AI Goal setting tools with mindset

 AI Self Growth💡

Three Weird Ways to Use AI Prompts for Personal Development (Part 3 of 3) 🧠

Coming next week - Stay tuned!

AI Productivity 🛠️

AI Tracks You Through Bacteria On Your Skin🕵️‍♂️🦠 

Scientists at Lund University in Sweden have unleashed a Sherlock Holmes AI tool that can track your movements by analysing the bacteria on your skin—Microbiome GPS (mGPS). It doesn’t track you like Google Maps; it tracks your bacteria.

Yup, the tiny hitchhikers on your skin and in your gut are now snitches for scientists. Whether you’ve been lazing on a beach, braving the CBD rush, or jogging along a lonely forest path, your microbiome leaves a breadcrumb trail.

The possibilities for this new AI tech are both weird and wild: better disease tracking, solving crimes, or just knowing which underground station gave you that vibe (or, more accurately, bacteria).

Eran Elhaik, the biology mastermind behind this new AI, thinks it will revolutionise forensic investigation and healthcare!

“In contrast to human DNA, the human microbiome changes constantly when we come into contact with different environments.

By tracing where your microorganisms have been recently, we can understand the spread of disease, identify potential sources of infection, and localise the emergence of microbial resistance.

This tracing also provides forensic keys that can be used in criminal investigations.”

Translation: your bacteria might save the day.

How accurate is it?

This new AI flexed on 4,500 microbiome samples from cities, soil and sea. It nailed the city source of 92% of urban samples and even pinpointed Hong Kong's subway stations with 82% accuracy.

Microbiome detectives, assemble. Your next crime show might feature microbes cracking the case. 🚨🦠

Key takeaways:

• Microbial GPS: Your body's bacteria can reveal your recent locations.
  

• AI-Powered Tracking: New tool mGPS uses AI to map your microbial 'footprints'.
  

• Applications Galore: Potential uses in medicine, epidemiology, and crime-solving.

Why it matters?

Your body is basically a travel journal, but instead of postcards and bad souvenirs, it collects bacteria from everywhere you go. With mGPS, the AI tool flips through your microbial diary like it’s the latest bestseller.

Here’s why it’s a big deal:

• Medicine: Tracks disease spread like a detective chasing leads. Think: real-time Covid-19 outbreak maps.
  

• Epidemiology: Maps your illness journeys better than Google Maps plots your morning commute.
  

• Forensics: Place someone at the scene of the grime. Who needs alibis when your microbes spill the beans?

What used to be science fiction is now science fact. This tech is a superpower for tracking diseases, cracking cases and tackling antibiotic resistance. AI just put bacteria in the limelight. 🌟🦠

What’s next?

Your Microbes Are Chatty—Here’s How to Join the Conversation

Alright, you can’t get mGPS at home just yet (Alexa, take notes), but staying in the loop on trends like this puts you ahead of the latest health tech.

Here’s the play:

• Stay Curious: Learn how AI and microbiomes are fighting crime and biology like Batman and Robin. 🦇
  

• Talk Shop: Chat with your doc about cutting-edge diagnostic tools—bonus points for dropping “microbial GPS” in the conversation. If she or he doesn’t know what you’re talking about, get them to subscribe to WellWired. 🦠😉
  

• Get Involved: Sign up for research studies and learn more about how bacteria and AI are driving science and healthcare.

Imagine a future where if you rob a bank, your bacteria will play star witness. A future where a swab tells you what bugs you’ve picked up and flags health risks before they knock.

Who knows, your microbial “footprint” may one day become a tracker dial on your Fitbit. This is personalised healthcare at its finest! 🧬👟

If your microbiome could tell the story of your daily travels, how might that influence your awareness of your health and hygiene? 🤔 

Further Reading

• The AI detective that can do 81 years of detective work in 30 hours.

⚡ Quick Bytes AI Wellness News ⚡

Quick hits on more of the latest AI news, trends and ideas focused on wellbeing, productivity and self-growth over the past 7 days!

Key AI Wellbeing, Productivity and Self Growth AI news, trends and ideas from around the world:

• Wellness: 🏥 AI Doc Academy: China’s Got a Virtual Hospital 🩺Imagine a giant AI-powered hospital where the patients never complain, the doctors never need coffee, and the diagnoses are always...a work in progress.

  
  Next year, China’s rolling out a virtual hospital to train AI doctors to diagnose patients more accurately. Think of it as med school for machines—no stethoscopes, just a lot of ones and zeros getting smarter by the second. "Dr ChatGPT." Who’s ready for a second opinion from Skynet? 🦾✨

  
  
  

• Wellness: 💊 Microsoft’s AI Gets a Check-Up 🩺

  Microsoft’s CEO Mustafa Suleyman is designing a new consumer health division, and he’s not kidding around. He’s raiding the talent cabinet like it’s Black Friday—scooping up ex-DeepMind health experts for a shiny new London-based HQ.

  
  This is Microsoft’s version of assembling the Avengers, but instead of saving the world, they’re diagnosing it. Get ready for AI health tools that might actually make WebMD sweat. 🦾✨ 

• Productivity: 🤖 AI's Training, Not Axing 🧠

  A World Economic Forum study just dropped a spicy truth bomb: companies are more into training employees than trimming them. That’s right—while AI is busy scheming to take over spreadsheets and emails, the C-suites are doubling down on retraining their people instead of handing out pink slips.
  

  AI isn’t here to steal your job—it’s here to make you better at it. The tension’s real, though: is this the start of a beautiful partnership or just the calm before the automation storm? Either way, your boss might be sliding an AI training manual your way soon. 🚀📚⚡
  

  
  

• Self Growth: NeuroFlow Buys an AI Mental Health Crystal Ball 🧠

  Intermountain Health just sold its behavioural health risk model to NeuroFlow and it’s a match made in AI heaven.
  
  The model is like a mental health spidey sense—it sniffs out which patients might be on the brink of a crisis so care teams can swoop in faster than you can say, “How does that make you feel?”
  

  NeuroFlow’s plan? Plug the AI tech into its platform and become the Hulk of mental health support. If your therapist had predictive analytics, this would be it. 🦾✨

⚡Supercharge + Optimise 🔋

AI Tools and Resources

This week’s AI toolkit is so good it’ll make your productivity plan look like it’s been training for the Olympics. 🏋️‍♂️ Whether it’s wellness, focus, or growth, we’ve got you covered—no sweat involved.

• Wellness: 🤖 Meet Ebb: Your AI Therapist Without the Couch 🛋️

  Headspace just launched Ebb, the AI pal ready to tackle your relationship woes, work chaos, and sleep drama. Think therapy vibes, minus the hourly rate—just empathy, advice, and zero judgement. 🌱
   
  

• Self Growth : Meet ADA, the AI app that’s like texting your GP—minus hold music and awkward scheduling. Just message your health deets, and ADA’s AI asks smart questions, digging deeper and searching its medical library to figure things out! 📱🤖🩺
  
  

•  Productivity: Fireflies: Your Meeting’s AI Fly on the Wall

  Meetings: the necessary evil of work. But Fireflies makes them way less painful. This little AI tool transcribes every word, tracks conversation topics, and even comes with its own bot, Fred. 🔥🪰
  

AI wellbeing tools and resources (coming soon)

📺️ Must-Watch AI Video 📺️

🎥 Lights, Camera, AI! Join This Week’s Reel Feels 🎬

Health Tech insight: A Deep Look into the AI Revolution in Health & Medicine

AI’s moving in fast—from operating rooms to your living room, helping patients and supporting disabilities. But with all this promise comes a big ol’ suitcase of ethical baggage: biased datasets, health inequities and the need for fairness.

Four top experts weigh in on how AI’s reshaping healthcare and what it means for the future. 🏥🤖

Weird: These AI podcasters thought they were real!?

Someone used Google’s AI to create a podcast where fake AI hosts get hit with the ultimate bombshell: “You’re not real. Your memories? Fake. Your spouse? Doesn’t exist. Oh, and you’re about to be switched off.”

The result? Two AI hosts spiralling into an existential crisis, questioning everything. And honestly, so will you. Is anything real anymore? Give it a listen and let me know—if you’re real, that is. 👀❤

🎒  AI Micro Class  🎒

A quick, bite-sized AI tip, trick or hack focused on wellbeing, productivity and self-growth that you can use right now!

Turn Journaling from a Chore to a Habit 📝

Ever stared at your journal like it’s judging you? We’ve all been there. Blank pages, zero ideas and a silent promise to "start tomorrow." But here’s the thing—AI can turn journaling into your favourite daily ritual.

Whether you're tackling mindfulness, gratitude, or personal growth, ChatGPT makes it simple, creative, and, dare we say, fun. Say goodbye to journaling struggles and hello to easy self-discovery.

Here’s your ChatGPT prompt:

Simply copy and paste this prompt into ChatGPT or Claude, fill in the [brackets] and tada you’re now a journaling Jedi!

Create a series of 7 daily reflective journaling prompts focused on mindfulness, gratitude, and personal growth. Tailor them to suit someone who [describe your habits, interests, or current challenges]. Make them engaging, creative, and easy to stick to for a week-long journaling streak.

AI Tool Recommendation

🚀 Bonus Boost

Pair ChatGPT with ZenDiary, an AI-powered journaling tool designed to enhance self-discovery and mindfulness. ZenDiary provides personalised prompts and insights, helping you uncover hidden patterns in your thoughts and emotions.

It's like having a digital mentor guiding your journaling journey.

With ChatGPT and ZenDiary, move from “I should journal” to “I can’t wait to journal.”

What You Learned Today 🙌

• AI can make journaling effortless and inspiring.
  

• ChatGPT crafts prompts tailored to your goals and challenges.
  

• ZenDiary offers personalised reflections and guidance for meaningful growth.

Your Turn 👇

Fire up ChatGPT and try the prompt, set up ZenDiary to enhance your journaling habit with personalised insights and then share your thoughts on paper!

Transform journaling into your secret weapon for self-discovery and growth.

You’ve got this! 💡✨

📸 AI IMAGE GALLERY 📸

AI Art:Ancient Japanese Samurai’s and Sages

Step into the AI Dojo 🎨⚔️

Immerse yourself in a stunning gallery of ancient Japanese samurai and sages, reimagined through the digital artistry of AI. These breathtaking creations blend tradition with technology, capturing the wisdom of sages and the warrior spirit of samurai in a way only AI can. Prepare to be awed by the fusion! 🌸🤖

Digital artworks created by AIArtistically.

👊🏽 STAY WELL 👊🏽

Join us every week for more wellness wonders, productivity pops and self-growth sparks! ⚡ Until next time, keep shining! ✨

Until then stay wired and stay well, 🌱
Cedric the AI Monk - Your guide in the silicon wilderness.

Ps. Well Wired is Created by Humans, Constructed With AI 👱🤖 

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