As therapists, we are often taught to set big resolutions without accounting for burnout, unpredictable schedules, or fluctuating energy. In this episode of Run Your Private Practice with AI, I explain why traditional resolutions tend to fail and how goal setting needs to be redesigned to support your nervous system, not fight against it. Instead of using AI as a productivity boss, you’ll learn how to use it as a thinking partner to create realistic, sustainable goals that fit your actual life and workload.
AI Tips You Don’t Want to Miss:
- Why traditional goal setting does not work for therapists with fluctuating schedules and energy.
- How to prompt AI to ask reflective, intake-style questions before creating any goals.
- A simple framework for fewer goals with clear motivation and systems that do not rely on willpower.
- How to choose weekly or monthly rhythms instead of daily tasks for sustainable goal setting.
- How to create fallback plans for good days, hard days, and everything-is-on-fire days so goals do not collapse.
Prompts discussed in this episode:
- I am a therapist with a full clinical load and limited bandwidth. I want realistic goals that support my mental health, income stability, and long-term sustainability. Ask me thoughtful questions to help design resolutions that fit my actual life. No clinical advice.
- Based on my answers, propose three realistic resolutions that fit my actual life as a therapist. Each resolution should include a clear motivation and a simple system that does not rely on willpower.
- Break each resolution into daily, weekly, and monthly actions. Each action should take less than 15 minutes and feel realistic for a therapist’s schedule.
- For each resolution, give me a fallback version for a good day, a hard day, and an everything is on fire day. Make the lowest level so easy it still counts.
- Turn these resolutions into simple tools I will actually use, such as a checklist, weekly tracker, monthly overview, or calendar reminders. Keep it minimal and non-overwhelming.
- Act as my personal resolution coach. Check in weekly, help me recalibrate when life shifts, and remind me that sustainability matters more than perfection.
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