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Todays wire:

🗞️ Main Stories AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• The new ChatGPT phone you can call for your loneliness ☎️

• Four bizarre ways to use AI prompts for self help (part 2 of 3) 🧠

• Here’s how I’m using ChatGPT to find my true love. 💘 

• The five newest AI productivity tools you can try in 2025⚡

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

• 💡AI Tip of the Day (Finding it hard to unwind before bed?)

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

• 📺️ Must watch AI videos (How will AI improve the mental health crisis?)

• 🎒AI Micro-class (The Ritual Reboot: balance mind, body & soul in 1 prompt⚡)

• 📸 AI Image Gallery (If only humans and bees could co-exist?)

Read time: 5.5 minutes

✅ AI Tip of The Day ✅

Finding it Hard to Unwind Before Bed? 💤

Struggling to snooze?

Beat the insomnia demons away, with this eye shutting ChatGPT prompt that will help you craft a calming bedtime ritual tailored specifically to you. 🛠

Here’s the prompt:

Build a tailored 30-minute evening wind-down routine for better sleep, considering my lifestyle, stress levels, and habits [add lifestyle, habits, stress levels here]. Include activities that promote relaxation, reduce screen time, and prepare my body and mind for rest. Recommend a specific AI tool or app to guide relaxation (e.g., guided meditation, white noise) and suggest a wearable device to track and improve my sleep quality (e.g., Fitbit, Oura Ring). Make the routine simple, enjoyable and easy to integrate into my daily life.

Your sleep quality score just jumped from 5 to 8!

Want more?

🌙 Meet your new sleep buddy Somnio, the AI sleep coach that’s basically a therapist for your snooze button. It crafts tailored bedtime strategies with a sprinkle of cognitive behavioural therapy and a dash of data.

You can also pair it with the Whoop Strap 4.0—the wrist-sized nerd tracking your recovery, sleep stages and all the reasons you’re tired. Together, Somnio and Whoop are like Batman and Robin for your REM cycle.

Sweet dreams, mate. 😴✨

🤔 Have you ever used AI for your sleep? 🤌

🗞️ 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 Self Growth 🛠️

The New ChatGPT Phone For Your Loneliness—Your Pocket Therapist, Doctor and Friend 🧠⚡

ChatGPT is no longer only here to answer trivia questions, draft emails or play Connect Four—it’s now only a phone call away.

OpenAI’s latest upgrade gives ChatGPT the ability to handle live phone conversations; playing at “Dr AI” by serving you quick health tips, offering you a listening ear if you’re feeling lonely and it can even give you mental health advice if you’re stressed. ☎️

With one in five people worldwide, or more than a billion people, feeling lonely, ChatGPT’s voice feature could bridge the emotional gap.

Imagine calling it to vent after a bad day or to get clarity on your flu symptoms without Googling yourself into a frenzy. Powered by Whisper, OpenAI’s speech recognition system delivers seamless conversations that sound and flow almost naturally. 🤝

I’ve tried the beta version and it’s freakily human-sounding.

So it’s understandable that with 1 in 3 Americans, 3.6 million Australians (1 in 5 experience a mental illness) and 25.99 million Brits feeling lonely every week, ChatGPT’s new phone feature has caused a stir!

But not everyone is thrilled. Critics question whether a chatbot can truly empathise with a human or whether it can really dish out psychologically sound mental health advice. 🩺

They also worry about data and privacy - with good reason!

Still, with billions of people worldwide experiencing mental illness at some point in their lives, ChatGPT could offer much-needed support for those lost souls hesitant to reach out to another human. 🤗

“It’s like having a friend who listens, doesn’t interrupt and never judges—honestly, it’s refreshing.”

—Anonymous

“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.”

– Janet Fitch

Sounds beautifully poetic, right?

But let’s be real—you probably don’t want to cultivate loneliness; you want to cancel it, return it and leave a one-star review. That’s why ChatGPT’s new phone feature connects the dots so well. It’s not your soul’s gardener, but it might be the shoulder (or server) you cry on when no one else picks up.

Key Takeaways ✨

1. AI: Unpaid Therapist? ChatGPT’s phone feature offers a non-judgmental ear if you’re feeling isolated or struggling with mental health.
   

2. Mental Health Meets Machine Learning: With millions feeling lonely, ChatGPT may fill emotional gaps while raising questions about tech's role in mental health care. 🧠
   

3. Convenient, but Secure? Data privacy concerns remain as more personal conversations go digital.

Why it Matters?

In a world where social isolation impacts 1 in 5 people and loneliness is linked to health risks like heart disease and depression, ChatGPT’s phone feature could be the lifeline you’ve been looking for. Mental health support systems are overwhelmed, with demand far outpacing supply.

Now this AI companion is ready to lend you an ear anytime - 24/7! 👂

But there’s a deeper conversation here.

Is it healthy to outsource your emotional needs to a machine? While AI has the potential to give you immediate relief, it risks creating a digital bubble where human connections take a backseat.

The data privacy risks also loom large; how secure are those late-night rants?

Still, if you’re hesitating to call a friend or see a therapist, ChatGPT could be a stepping stone—a low-pressure way to open up and get some relief.

It’s not a replacement for human connection, but in a pinch, it might just help you feel less alone. 🥸

What’s Next?

• For Individuals: Try using ChatGPT for small mental health check-ins or moments of loneliness—but don’t replace real-life support.
  

• For Health Professionals: Explore how AI like ChatGPT can complement mental health care, especially for underserved communities.
  

• For Policymakers: Establish clear regulations on how AI can engage in sensitive topics like mental health and above all, protect user privacy.

Whether you need a sounding board or a quick “doctor” visit, ChatGPT might become a regular part of your mental health toolkit.

Just remember: AI can listen, but it won’t hug you back - yet... 🤗

If loneliness is a growing epidemic, can AI really replace the warmth of human connection—or is it just another digital Band-Aid? 🤔 

Read the full wire on CNN Business.

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Further reading

• AI chatbots as head shrinks? Here’s what the experts have to say!

• 1-800-ChatGPT - calling and messaging ChatGPT with your phone

• Teen commits suicide after AI chat - the dark side of AI companions

• Will you call ChatGPT if you get lonely over the holidays?

 AI Self Growth💡

Four Weird Ways to Use AI Prompts for Personal Development (Part 2 of 3) 🧠

AI Prompts Gone Wild: Part 2 🚀

Who needs another bland self-help mantra when you’ve got AI prompts so eccentric they could headline a sci-fi comedy?

Welcome to the second instalment of our self-growth trilogy, where we’re trading predictability for mind-bending creativity. Think multiverse careers, zen-rockstar problem-solving, and habit stacks built by caffeinated geniuses.

Let’s dial up the absurdity and let AI redefine your personal evolution. 🎭

Let’s face it, traditional self-help is like beige wallpaper—safe, inoffensive, and a bit dull.

Now with AI, your new self-growth besty, you have the ability to turn your mundane routines into something… well, slightly mad 🥴 but absolutely transformative.

Over at Well Wired, I’ve been putting AI through its paces, crafting prompts so unconventional they’d make Freud scratch his head. We’re not here to play it safe; we’re here to rewrite the rules of self-improvement—one ridiculously imaginative idea at a time.

Ready to smash your self growth?

Because today we’re diving into the next set of prompts I’ve cooked up that are so wild they could double as plot-lines for a sci-fi comedy. It’s time to crank up the weirdness dial and let AI supercharge your self-growth journey.

Let’s dive in! 🥽 💦

Four Self Growth Prompts to Upgrade Your Life

4. The "Ridiculous Scenario Problem-Solver"

Because sometimes the best way to solve a normal problem is with an absolutely mental solution.

Prompt:

I'm struggling with [YOUR PROBLEM]. Generate solutions by role-playing as: 1) A time-travelling Victorian entrepreneur, 2) A zen master who's also a retired rockstar, and 3) A hyper-efficient alien disguised as a productivity consultant. Compare their approaches and create a practical solution that combines the best elements of each perspective.

Use your imagination to replace each one of the three role playing characters above. You could also use different versions of yourself from the past, present and future. Go bonkers with this one! 🥴

Tool to enhance this prompt: Perplexity AI

Why this tool? Perplexity AI's ability to combine creative thinking with real-world knowledge makes it great for generating out-of-the-box solutions while keeping them grounded in practicality.

5. The "Habit Stack Attack"

Stack your habits like a Jenga tower built by a caffeinated architect with ADHD.

Prompt:

Create the most efficient but unconventional habit-stacking routine possible that combines these seemingly unrelated goals: [LIST 3-5 GOALS]. The routine should take no more than 30 minutes, and each habit should flow naturally into the next. Include specific transition triggers between habits and explain the synergistic benefits of combining them.

Tool to enhance this prompt: Habit Coach AI

Why this tool? Accountability is a huge part of forming healthy habits and that’s where HabitCoach.ai comes into play. It is a personalised, AI-driven habit coach you can text and talk to just like a person—and it’s open 24/7!

Just feed in the goals you created with the prompt above and the AI’s structured thinking and ability to break down complex routines into manageable steps make it ideal for creating innovative habit stacks to apply to your day.

6. The "Alternative Universe CV"

Peek into the multiverse of your career choices, because FOMO hits different when it's about parallel universes. 🙌

Prompt:

Based on my current skills and experience [INSERT BRIEF BIO], create three alternative universe CVs where I made radically different career choices at key decision points. For each CV, highlight: 1) The pivotal decision that created this timeline, 2) The unexpected skills I developed, 3) How those skills could be valuable in my current universe.

This prompt is awesome!

When you look at your multiverse, you’ll often discover parts of yourself and the choices you’ve made that start to weirdly make sense in the present, but only in retrospect.

Try it and be bedazzled! ✨

Tool to enhance this prompt: Pi by Inflection

Why this tool? PI AI is the first emotionally intelligent AI. It’s conversational nature and ability to explore hypotheticals makes it great for diving deep into alternative career scenarios while maintaining professional relevance.

7. The "Daily Decision Dice"

Roll the philosophical dice on your decision-making process, because why be consistent when you can be interesting?

Prompt:

Generate a decision-making framework for my day based on [CHOOSE A PHILOSOPHY: Stoicism / Existentialism / Taoism / Zen etc.]. Include: 1) Three key questions to ask before each decision, 2) A mental model for evaluating choices, 3) A specific example of applying this framework to a common daily decision. Make it practical but preserve the core principles of the philosophy.

Mix it up a little and try some weird philosophies like blending Absurdism with Anarcho-Primitivism and see the result! ❤️

Tool to enhance this prompt: Dexa AI

Why this tool? Dexa is an AI platform that unlocks expert knowledge, instantly. Plug your decision making framework into the AI and get answers directly from trusted experts like Andrew Huberman. The platforms broad knowledge base and ability to synthesise different philosophical approaches makes it perfect for creating varied decision-making frameworks.

Why it Matters?

Personal development often feels like running on a hamster wheel—same old tricks, minimal progress. But these AI prompts? They’re the jetpacks 🚀 your inner growth deserves, mixing wisdom with a side of absurdity.

By harnessing AI’s creativity, you’re not just improving yourself—you’re building a toolkit of wildly effective, hilariously unconventional methods. This isn’t just growth; it’s a full-blown evolution, sprinkled with a dose of chaos for good measure.

What’s Next?

Stay tuned for the final act in this three-part series.

Next week, we’ll unleash four more avant-garde AI prompts that promise to challenge your comfort zone, unlock your potential and probably make your friends question your sanity. 😱

Spoiler alert: It only gets weirder.

Next week we’ll look at:

• The "Skill-Blend Revolution"

• The "Emotional Intelligence Escape Room"

• The "Productivity Pranks"

Meanwhile, give these mind-bending prompts a whirl and let us know about your wildest, wackiest or weirdly insightful outcomes. After all, every oddball idea is just another stepping stone to the upgraded, unhinged version of you.

Keep experimenting, keep laughing and let’s turn your self-growth journey into a blockbuster adventure worthy of its own AI-generated sequel. 🎬✨

⚡ 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: An increase in strokes and the resulting rehabilitation has highlighted the growing need for effective care strategies. Now there’s AI-powered robot rehabilitation offering optimal post-stroke treatment for patients. ✨
  
  

• Wellness: Mums, 2025 is here, and so are AI-powered tips to keep you sane while juggling the chaos. From virtual nanny advice to meal plans that basically cook themselves, we’ve got an AI for that! Start the new year feeling like a boss! Dive in and let the robots help.  🤖 
  
  

• Productivity: Imagine a personal assistant who works 24/7, never complains and turns life’s chaos into a smooth TikTok-worthy montage. Sounds dreamy, right? That’s AI for you—your always-on guru for transforming everyday drudgery into a manageable masterpiece. Here’s five AI productivity tools you can try in 2025⚡
  
  

• Productivity: Move over, clueless chatbots—Stem is here, and it’ll be that best mate who reads your mind (or close enough). Backed by a16z and led by Twitch’s ex-CEO, this AI is supposed to “understand, cooperate with, and align with human behaviour.” Translation? Productivity might have met its soulmate. ✨🙌
  

• Self Growth: “Hi, I’m Therapist GPT — your friendly, empathetic companion here to provide a listening ear and support you with whatever’s on your mind.” AI chatbots are fast becoming healing aids in fostering personal growth, which is why they are becoming popular as head shrinks. Is it safe and sane to use AI as a healing voice, coach or therapist? Here’s what the mental health experts are saying! 🧠
  
  

• Self Growth: I’m using ChatGPT to find my true love. 💘 Erin Spencer ditched swipes for scripts, using ChatGPT to snag her dreamboat. Input: ideal man. Output: “Be his ideal woman.” The AI whipped up traits and a self-improvement schedule (no personality transplant required). TikTok is on fire for Erins AI-assisted love quest. Here’s what happened! 🌹✨

⚡Supercharge + Optimise 🔋

AI Tools and Resources

Forget trawling the internet like it’s a car boot sale. We’ve polished up the shiniest AI tools for your wellness, growth and productivity. Zero fluff, 100% buff! Craft yourself into the mighty human you are. This is your time! 🛠️✨

• Wellness: Want 24/7 support along your wellness journey? Try Doti AI! This AI health assistant and habit tracking copilot designs exercise routines, builds your dietary habits, reduces stress levels, improves your sleep quality and can check you heart rate metrics. 🌱
  
  

• Self Growth : Feeling a little lost and looking 👁️ for deeper purpose in your life? My Life Quest is an an AI-powered app that helps you rediscover yourself, figure out what you really want in life and create an epic life plan tailored to your inner desires. 📝
  
  

•  Productivity: Quickly create your own powerful AI worker 🚧 with the MindStudio no-code workflow editor. This tireless AI could help you design an AI therapist tailored to your personality, a fitness coach that knows your body or a digital guru to help you meditate like a Zen monk.
  

AI wellbeing tools and resources (coming soon)

📺️ Must-Watch AI Video 📺️

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

Tech insight: How Will AI Improve Todays Mental Health Crisis?

In this TEDx talk, Dr Stevie Chancellor explores how artificial intelligence (AI) could transform mental health by filling the gap of supplement shortages in todays healthcare system.

She shares her personal journey and the importance of designing AI systems that prioritise your wellbeing, privacy and autonomy.

Fun: Jesus transforms baddies!

I thought I’d throw in this fun little number in to tickle your tonsils!

Imagine a world where Jesus transforms iconic bad souls into good ones with the healing words of the gospel. In this reality, the dark hearts of Homelander, The Joker, Loki and Davy Jones shine bright under Gods love and grace! ❤

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🎒  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!

The Ritual Reboot: Balance Mind, Body, and Soul in One Prompt

Hey there, wellness explorer! 🌏

Imagine a daily wellness routine like a cross between an old-school DC superhero (think Watchmen) and your very own Marvel Avenger—ancient rituals teaming up with modern psychology to save your sanity. 🛡️✨

A dynamic duo where mindfulness, productivity and wellbeing don’t just coexist—they fight off the baddies together. 🎉

Now, blend in some modern behavioural science and NLP flavours and you’ve got a potent cocktail mix that will bring you more balance and bliss. 👌

Today, we’re serving up a ChatGPT prompt that makes this dream day your reality.

Ready to level up your life and start a wellness renaissance?

Let’s dive in! 🚀

Meditate Like a Monk, Move Like a Spartan:

Ever feel like your daily routine is a bit of a snooze-fest?

You’re not alone. Between the chaotic scroll of social media and relentless emails, finding a moment of harmony can feel impossible. But what if you could design a day that fuels your body, mind, and soul by borrowing wisdom from ancient cultures? 🍄

Imagine starting your mornings with the calm focus of Japanese mindfulness, energising your afternoons with Indian Ayurvedic wisdom, and winding down with Mediterranean relaxation rituals. Sound dreamy?

Well, it’s time to awaken to the hero in you, because today you’ll learn how to use ChatGPT to craft a bespoke daily routine that will mix ancient roots with modern flair.

Let’s design the perfect day! ✨

Ancient Practices, Modern Lives

Creating a balanced daily routine starts with inspiration. Many cultures have perfected the art of wellness over millennia.

Let’s look at three examples:

1. Japan: The Japanese concept of ikigai (reason for being) encourages starting the day with purpose. Think: mindful morning rituals like sipping tea slowly while reflecting on your goals. 🙌
   

2. India: Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine, suggests dinacharya (daily routine). Mornings could include oil pulling, yoga and eating seasonal fruits to balance energy. 🌈
   

3. Greece: The Mediterranean lifestyle focuses on relaxation and social connection. An evening walk or slow, shared dinner could help you end the day stress-free. ☕

These timeless habits don’t just belong in history books. They can be adapted for today’s fast-paced lives.

Here’s your two part prompt

Part 1: Tap into NLP Anchoring: Use anchoring to solidify your habits emotionally.

ChatGPT prompt:

Simply copy and paste this prompt into ChatGPT, or Claude, and fill in the [brackets] and voila you’ve now started creating your personal routine.

Please guide me in designing a daily routine [add goal here e.g. to lessen my anxiety] inspired by [specific culture or practice - note: add no more than 2]. Suggest rituals for my mornings, afternoons, and evenings. Help me anchor these habits emotionally by associating each with positive feelings like [Add positive feelings here] or past successes [Add past successes here]. Tailor the routine to my work schedule [add schedule here] and personal energy levels [add your peak energy times here if you know them].

💡 Example personalisation: If mornings are tough, tie your first habit (like yoga) to the pride you felt after a previous success. This is called anchoring and it is an NLP technique to help your brain associate the habit with that positive memory. 🧠

Part 2: Behavioural Science Meets Rituals: Incorporate the Commitment Device technique to lock in consistency.

Here’s the follow-up prompt:

Again, just copy and paste this prompt into your chosen platform and fill in the [brackets].

Now that I have a routine, help me stick to it by creating a commitment device. Suggest ways to make skipping these rituals feel like a bigger loss than following through. Tailor the ideas to my personality and lifestyle [add any additional info about your personality and lifestyle here].

💡 Example personalisation: Share your routine with a friend and commit to texting them daily updates. Skipping your routine means losing face—and no one wants that. 😉

AI Tool Recommendation

To modernise your daily rituals, combine ChatGPT with Habitica.

This gamified habit tracker transforms your to-dos into a fantasy game. You’ll level up your character as you complete tasks like morning meditation or evening journaling. 🎮

What You Learned Today 🙌

• The power of ancient wellness practices like ikigai, dinacharya, and Mediterranean rituals and how to use then in a prompt.
  

• How NLP anchoring ties habits to positive emotions for lasting change.
  

• Using behavioural techniques like commitment devices to keep you consistent.
  

• How to gamify your routine with Habitica for extra motivation.

So, go ahead—create a routine that feels like poetry in motion. And remember, the journey of a thousand mindful steps begins with a single ritual. 🧘‍♀️✨

Your Turn 👇

Which culture’s wellness practices will you weave into your daily routine? 🤔 

Try combining some weird wellness practices like Bee sting therapy and Japanese Otonamaki (adult wrapping to bring out your inner child). 🌟

📸 AI IMAGE GALLERY 📸

AI Art: If Only Humans And Bees Could Co-Exist?

In a world where flowers hum and skies softly gleam, where humans and bees share a unified dream, pollen and progress, a harmonious scheme, a future entwined like honey’s golden stream.

With whispers of wings and hands that create, together we weave a shared, thriving fate. Gardens of steel and blossoms ornate, tech and nature, no longer at debate.

Hives buzz in cities, their workers take flight, while humans sow seeds in the moon’s silver light. Bees teach us balance, their dances ignite, a rhythm of coexistence, bold, brave and bright.

In this revolution, no species resigned, a pact that ensures all life is aligned. Humans and bees, our futures combined, bound by the beauty of harmony’s design.

Original poem created by Cedric Chenefront

Digital artworks below created by VVDB.

👊🏽 STAY WELL 👊🏽

Join us next week for a new dollop of wellness, more productivity boosts and a ton of self-growth hacks that will transform your reality! 🌟

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

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