Also going to granddaughter's high school graduation tonight. AI feedback was that you need more intentional time. And you have to build it in intentionally. He says whatever you see someone else doing, don't run to where they are. Some people use it to create code.
A friend of mine is being buried this afternoon. She is the sister of one of my best friends in the whole world. One of my rules of engagement is go to the funeral. Also going to granddaughter's high school graduation tonight. Death is inconvenient, but I was already been able to play a useful role.
The conversation this morning and we're having across Cadre this month is about balance. One of the things I would say is protect your peace. AI feedback was that you need more intentional time. And you have to build it in intentionally.
Mitt Romney: Plan your work and work your plan is another way that I keep my peace. He says whatever you see someone else doing, don't run to where they are. Romney: I would be happy to talk about how I'm using AI.
I use ChatGPT and Claude. Some people use it to create code. I'm not a coder. Be cautiously skeptical. Well, we will do a little workshop and can talk all about it. See you later.
Good morning, Cadre. Live from Golden Valley, Minnesota. I'm in Minnesota. I come to Minnesota pretty frequently. This was unexpected and unfortunate. A friend of mine. I'm here for funeral. A friend of mine died and notably she is the sister of one of my best friends in the whole world has died. And her funeral is this afternoon. And I am here for that. Cause one of my rules of engagement is go to the funeral. And I talked about it here before because one time I didn't and I regretted it. And that's how I learned the lesson.
Show up for things. Which also means since I happen to be in town, I will also be going to our granddaughter's high school graduation, which is tonight. I just happen to be in town. I fly home tomorrow. Good morning, TE 111. Fun fact, 111 is my favorite number. Good morning, Amar. Good morning. Dream big 30. Glad that everybody is here. I am saying a few things. One of them is I'm here in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and I am looking out over a liminal space. I'm in a car looking out over a liminal space, meaning there is a small body of water and little bit of swamp between Highway 55 and this parking lot that I'm in.
And there is a duck that's been there for quite some time. And I'm seeing a lot of red winged blackbirds. And I love these liminal spaces. I love the plants that grow on highway berms and things like that. Good morning. T. North 66. You were in the Twin Cities last Sunday. The other thing I was saying is I'm in Golden Valley for a reason that is difficult, which is I'm here for funeral. A friend of mine is being buried this afternoon. And importantly, she is the sister of one of my best friends in the whole world.
Like he was in our wedding. And go to the funeral is one of my rules of engagement. If I get confused, I use it as a guidepost, which is what I did here. Death is inconvenient, but I was already been able to play a useful role. I'm gonna pick up the funeral programs and bring them to the church pretty much when I'm done here. And then I'm gonna make sure that my friend has enough water to drink and a tissue to hand. And if he needs a break, I will make sure I'll play the back a to make sure he gets it so he doesn't have to excuse himself.
But I can do that for him. So the conversation this afternoon or this morning, it's still just 10am here in Minnesota. The conversation this morning and we're having across Cadre this month is about balance. And this week I'm thinking, and we are thinking specifically about that internal balance. I like to think of it as a center of gravity. And two rules of engagement came to mind. I think the first one is number nine. No, number 13, maybe protect your peace. Whatever I said on the app is the right one.
Protect your peace. Protect your peace. Betsy. Protect your ease. Protect your comfort. How is it that I do anti racism work? I've just been through a move. I am advising cities and organizations, excuse me, that work with cities during this time that is so difficult nationally. How do I keep that internal balance? You know, I work, I coach people one on one who are doing this work and I get to think about them and how to how they can support themselves. And one of the things I would say is protect your peace.
When you look at your calendar, where is the time for you to not think about things that are hard or do things that are hard or be trying to get yourself to do things that are hard? Good morning, Shannon. So good to see you here. Glad you're here. Protect your peace. You know, what does that mean in an environment where things are moving fast or people are coming at you a lot? I had to think, Good morning. Speak Wonder. Welcome to catch you up. I'm in Golden Valley, not for a great reason. There's a funeral this afternoon and the rules of engagement are protect your peace.
That's one of them. And you have to build it in intentionally. Shannon. Exactly. Like just time to break. I've been using AI a lot. I've been using ChatGPT and Claude at the behest. You don't hear that word every day. org and she is in her 70s or 80s. It's hard for me to know. I mean, just given the timeline of her education, that's my guess. And she's like, here's how you use AI to help you do X, Y and Z. And then there was another mentor I saw on LinkedIn who said, hey, here are some prompts you can use with AI to help you do your schedule.
So I had a long conversation with the ChatGPT and Claude saying, this is what I do, this is how I spend my time. These are my standing dates. What do you recommend? And one of the things, one of the beats of feedback I got from AI was you need more quiet time and more intentional time. You need time in your calendar where things can just muddle together, speak wonder. Oh, good morning, Nikki. Good morning. I was hesitant to use AI so every once in a while I would just go to the free version of ChatGPT and ask a question.
And then I got this mentor, and she said, I want you to use it, and here's how. And it's been great. I've been enjoying it a lot. I have also been researching what are the challenges, what are the difficulties, what are the concerns, but have decided to forge ahead anyway because it's been very useful in a whole bunch of ways, including recipes for food that I can eat. So it really can help me be intentional. So AI feedback was because I said, what would be my ideal schedule given everything that you know about me?
And one of the recommendations that came back was, you need more intentional time. Protect your peace. Basically, AI was telling me that I need to protect my peace. I really think the universe will talk to me in any language I will listen to. I. yeah, you're welcome, Nikki. I. to be very, very helpful. Very, very helpful. The other rule of engagement that I think of, when I think of, how do I protect my internal balance? How do I keep myself level in a world where things are coming at me, people are coming at me is my newest one, which is actually probably my.
One of my oldest ones. My oldest ones are from recovery because I got into recovery when I was 19. But this is one that I learned when I started learning how to conduct campaigns in the early 2000s. So 25, 30 years ago. Plan your work, your plan. That's part of the reason I was talking to AI because I was like, you know, I will do better if I plan my work and have a lot of, you know, make decisions beforehand rather than while you're doing stuff. Another rule of engagement I've talked about here, this is a companion to it.
Plan your work and then work your plan, and then I don't have to make so many decisions on the fly. I've spent some quality time making significant decisions about how to spend my time, and then I just work that plan. I need to explore AI before being scared of it. That's what I did. I just went. I started using it as a who is this guy on this show kind of thing or what book? If I like this book, this book and this book, what other book should I read kind of thing. What are I like? I like. I read a lot.
As it turns out. I am learning from myself, about myself, but I like books that have twists like powerful twists. Because even if the book is good enough, even if you know there's a twist, it doesn't matter. And so you can go to AI and say, what are the best 10 best reviewed books described as having a huge plot twist? One of the tips I got from my mentor was tell it who it is and you can create projects and the projects will remember the information that you give. So if I'm talking about my business, I say you are a business consultant who trauma informed business consultant who specializes in working with solopreneurs who've experienced childhood trauma and need balance in their lives.
And then from there, I ask it questions. It gives it a sense of where it needs to go to and what sector it needs to go to. So for books, it's like you are a, you know, a book talk expert who reads or, you know, you are a librarian who specializes in mystery books for young people or whatever it is, Whatever word, whatever it is. Thank you. Speak Wonder. I love these as well. C. and he's been helping me pick my glasses for a long time. And last time I walked in for my eye appointment, he looked at me and said, I have frames for you.
And I put these on and I said, you were right. You did. He did have frames for me. So. So plan your work and work your plan is another way that I keep my peace, is another way that I make decisions before I'm doing stuff rather than after. It's how I set up a schedule that makes sure my priorities, including intentional time, to keep my peace. But plan your work and work your plan comes straight out of campaigning because they will tell you if you're running for mayor of Minneapolis, hypothetically, 8.
And what is your campaign plan? Meaning there's a whole bunch of decisions you have to make. Who are you going to target? Who are you going to door knock? Are you going to do tv? Are you going to do mail? Are you going to. What is your social media strategy, all that stuff. There's a whole set of decisions. Make a plan, right? Are you going to go grassroots or are you just going to go after money, all kinds of things, and then work your plan. Now here, here's a key thing about the work your plan part.
Good morning, dream bag. Here's a key thing about the work your plan part. It means whatever you see someone else doing, don't run to where they are. Don't be. You know when little kids play soccer and they all just clump around the ball and they just run around the field, around the ball. Politics can be like that sometimes. If there are four people running for office now, when I ran for mayor, every time, there are at least 35 people. Ah, good times. If I saw that so and so was at an event, I didn't drop everything I was doing and run to that event.
Some people do, though. Some people, oh, my gosh, he's at that event with that union. I got to go be there right now. Now, if it is part of your plan, you can check with somebody. But don't just wildly make changes to your plan, because in this instance, the other candidates would be random feelings, right? Just because you feel like, oh, no, I should be doing this instead. That's what gets me in trouble all the time, is just either the FOMO or that I should be doing this or I should be doing that.
And of course, I never feel like I'm doing the right thing, ever. It's part of my anxiety. I literally have identified. Part of my anxiety is thinking that whatever I'm doing is the wrong thing. So I can't pay attention to that feeling as though it's real. I can't make decisions based on that feeling. It's a data point. It's a data point. So I can address the data point, but I can't make decisions based on that feeling. My stories as mayor, inspiring and real. If my time as mayor was anything, it was real.
That was some real talk. So you would attempt. Oh, a little workshop. You want a little workshop about AI and how I'm using AI? You know what, if my lamp is the one lighting the way, even if I'm five feet ahead of you, I am happy to lead that way. I would be happy to talk about how I'm using AI because I feel a little good about it. I have figured out some really great stuff with Diana's help. She's great. org has some great videos available about how to use AI, so I recommend those. But I can do a little workshop about how I am using it to help set my calendar to explore values.
Because when you work with it for a while, you can ask it. I asked it, what are my values and priorities? And how do you see those as lining up together? So we want to sit under your lamp. Yes, Speak wonder. I am happy to let you sit under this lamp. What this telling me is I don't need to be shy about how much I love AI. I know there are so many criticisms of it and concerns about it, and so I get shy about saying I am loving using it. And I am finding. For those of you familiar with Pat Lencioni's working geniuses, my strongest working genius by far is discernment.
And that is what I call the ability to see through time. I think we've talked about this here before, and part of what that means is I do better if you give me something to respond to. And I can be super creative in responding to something, but it's generating that first thing that can sometimes be difficult for me. And so AI is perfect because it generates the first thing, and then I just go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. I did that with a essay, a memo I have to write for a client.
AI isn't writing the memo for me as much as it's helping me spur my thinking and my creativity to think outside the box about this memo. Very exciting to me. So we can embrace it and be real. Let's do it. All right, well, Nikki, you're the one in charge, so you can talk to me about how we can make this workshop happen. Yes. We can use it to organize our creativity. I created a whole template for my calendar about how to spend my time to make sure I'm spending enough time on the projects that I care about most, but still staying sane.
I am excited to talk with you about this. So I will say I use ChatGPT and Claude. Claude is very focused on work. Some people use it to create code. I'm not a coder. Be cautiously skeptical. Absolutely be cautiously skeptical. Well, we will do a little workshop and can talk all about it. We can talk all about it. So that is my time. If you were here at the beginning, you know that I am here in town unexpectedly for a funeral, and I'm not using all of you as a therapist, so I'm not gonna be all up in my feelings about it.
But trust me, I have a lot of feelings about it. But the good news is I get to be of service to my friend. I'm gonna pick up the funeral programs, bring them to the church, and then make sure that my friend has water. And if he's in too long of a conversation. In politics, that's called being the body person for the candidate. You be the bad guy and ext them from conversations and stuff. I'm going to do a very light touch, be a body person for him. So, yes, I can tell you the ways that I am cautious around AI too, if you're curious about that.
So regardless, I am off to do all these things, and then there's a graduation tonight, so a celebration of a new phase in life for our granddaughter too. So have a great week. Cadre, whatever you're doing to find balance and harmony within so that you can withstand understand what comes at you so you can stay steady. Whatever's going on around you, let me know. Let me know in the app. Share with each other. We can. We can learn with each other. See you later. It is hot.
