When I went to South America earlier this year, I used an AI trip planner to organize my overseas trip. At the beginning, that app was only a planner, but after a while, I realized that the way this trip planner organizes trips should be the way we organize our life/careers.
How I used the trip planner:
After downloading the app, I allowed AI to give me recommendations based on my preferences. Interestingly, modern technology is powerful enough to tell me what to do and where to go during my trip to South America. I’m very impressed with what I’ve seen on the app because I tried the app’s recommendations – I would say 99% of those ideas are absolutely amazing.
The app utilized AI to understand what I need and what I want as well as the data that the app has already accumulated from the Internet. When my needs and the online information are combined, the app generates a very effective plan for me. It’s a personalized approach that I really appreciate.
That means I give this app the permission to offer me guidance. And instead of doing everything on my own, I have something helpful to show me new and creative ideas that I wouldn’t be able to come up with by myself. This has made me more open-minded and enlightened.
In life, I was trying to control everything too much previously – I was making every plan all by myself & I wanted to know what would happen in advance. But the process of using the AI app has changed the way I look at organizing my life: Perhaps I shouldn’t manage every detail in my life because stress literally comes from overthinking and overmanaging life. Why not let an app give me some refreshing ideas so that I can think outside the box?
How this new approach makes life easy:
A big part of your life is your career. Take Lynette as an example. Lynette was a teacher for many years until the pandemic happened when she was made redundant due to COVID-19 (online education wasn’t viable for that organization anymore because of lack of new students, so the organization was closed permanently). After staying at home for a few months, Lynette became a call center agent. 10 weeks later, she became a retail worker. After selling womenswear for a year and a half, she left that company for a jewelry retailer. She says the womenswear company has 3 people that she couldn’t get along well with (most people on that team couldn’t get along with those three individuals & two of them are managers). Although the jewelry retailer isn’t perfect (only her line manager is difficult), the organization’s culture is positive in general. Actually, after she started to work for the jewelry retailer, two adult learning institutes contacted her as they wanted to offer her casual work, but she didn’t accept those offers as she has started a new job at the jewelry retailer already. What’s more, she was a teacher for many years & throughout those years, she had multiple jobs because adult learning institutes often have unstable enrolment numbers no matter there was COVID or not. In other words, she never knows when the next redundancy will happen, so she has stayed at the jewelry retailer while letting the universe show her a way.
I let the AI app to show me a way when it comes to overseas trips; Lynette let the universe show her a way in terms of her career. When we stop overmanaging life/overthinking, we find life so much easier.
“Life is a journey. A trip planner has changed the way I look at how this journey works.”
