The Jobs I hand AI every week

What if the habit you're most proud of is actually holding you back?

In this episode, Whitney Sewell explores the hidden danger of discipline: when good habits quietly crowd out your greatest priorities.

You'll learn how to evaluate your routines, redirect your energy, and ensure your faith, marriage, and family aren't getting what's left over after everything else.

Too often, men assume more discipline is always the answer. But sometimes the habits that helped you succeed in one season can slowly pull you away from the people and priorities that matter most. This episode will help you take an honest look at your rhythms and make sure your life is aligned with what God has truly called you to.

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Last week, I made the case that a Christian can use AI and use it hard without ever letting it take the place that belongs to God. Today, let's get practical. So, last week, a job that used to eat two hours of my morning took me about 20 minutes. A few days before that, I caught something in a contract before I ever signed it, and I never had to call my attorney. And on a Saturday, standing in a stranger's driveway, I talked down the price of a used guitar for my son, who with a little help just right there in my pocket. The same tool did all of it. Here are the jobs that I hand to AI, you know, every week. Not the hype, not some trick that has nothing to do with running a real business. It's real work, mine. And so you can see it running in yours as well as we talk through this. Let's start with one that gave me the most time back. And that's email. I built a setup for it I call inbox command. I tell it to run, and it already knows what to do because I taught it once, right? It reads my whole inbox. It sorts every email by what matters most and then sorts it again by which of my three businesses it belongs to in one pass. The chaos has order. Then I take that prompt or instructions it creates over to another project or uh you know a workspace that I have loaded with that business's history, its clients, uh, and its detail. So then it drafts a reply. It is not guessing. It already knows the deal, it already knows the people, the things that you know I would have to dig for or just flat miss. The drafts show up in my inbox, ready to go. I open them one by one. I read each of them and I fix what I want and then send it. The words are mine. The, you know, the finding and the remembering uh are already done for me. What used to eat two hours of my morning now takes about 20 minutes. So the same inbox, same people who needed a real answer, you know, a morning back almost every day for me. The next one might save you the most money, though, and that's your legal documents. You know, when a contract or you know, an agreement comes across my desk, I read it myself first. Uh, you know, it matters too much just to hand it off. Uh, and you know, that part is still on me to understand it. But then I give it to Claude AI, you know, you could use Chat GBT as well. And this is where it earns its keep. You know, I keep the documents uh together in one project so it holds the full picture. Every time I come back to it, I'll tell it to act like a sharp attorney, you know, and pressure test the document. Where are the weak points? Where could this be read in a way I did not intend? You know, does it say what I think it says? It walks through the whole thing and hands me a list of questions to bring to my attorney before I sign. You know, when I do not understand a section, I tell it to explain it to me like I'm a 12. The legalese turns into just plain English then. You know, same with the email chains from lawyers and the the ones that used to make my eyes just glaze over. I drop them in and I ask, you know, what it means. Now here's the part I want you to hear. AI does not replace your attorney. It makes you or me just a more prepared client. I walk into that conversation with my questions ready instead of paying by the hour to have the basics explained to me. So I lean on my attorney for the judgment that matters. And I get more out of every minute I'm paying for. I use to serve people better, you know, building offers. When I bring on, you know, a new man I'm coaching, you know, he fills out a set of onboarding questions, right? His his business, his family, where he's stuck, where he wants to go. And that's a lot of detail. And the old way, you know, I would read it, jot some notes down, I would build a plan mostly out of memory and gut. And now I hand it all to AI along with the coaching curriculum I've already built. It takes his answers, maps them against my material, then helps me shape a plan made for that one man. You know, the teaching is mine. The path, you know, through it is built specifically for him, not a generic program. You know, it's something fit to what he needs in his business and at home as well. Here's why this matters, even if you never coach a soul. You know, think about how much you already know about your best clients sitting, you know, in forms and emails and notes you never use. AI can take all of that and help you build something made for one person: a proposal, an offer, a plan, the kind of thing that used to take hours that most people never bother to do. So it you know sets you apart when you do. Here's one nobody brags about, but every owner has sweated over payroll. I was changing our pay schedule. You know, if you've ever done that, you know the fear, right? One wrong setting and somebody's check is short or late, or you're out of step with you know what your state requires. You know, people's families are depending on those checks. You do not get to be sloppy with it. So I walked through it with Claude AI, uh, one screen at a time. I would land on a page, you know, in the payroll system and not be sure what it was asking and just ask. You know, it told me what each setting meant, how to set the new schedule so everyone still got paid right, you know, what my state required as well, and even how to tell my team about the change. I did not call support one time. I did not pay someone to sort it out for me. I sat there, asked my questions, you know, as they came and got it right. That is the quiet power of this. It's not flashy, but the administrative weight that sits on your chest, you know, the stuff that you keep putting off because you're scared you're gonna get it wrong. You know, you can finally walk through it one screen at a time with an answer, you know, the moment you have the question. One more before you know we leave this business side. And it's for anyone who has something to say, and that's content. I have a lot I want to say to men, you know, just like you. And for years, most of it just stayed stuck in my head because sitting down to write it that took time I did not have. Now I dump my thoughts into Claude, you know, raw, messy, and it helps me turn them into something worth sharing. But here's the part that matters. I built a voice skill for it. I taught it the words I use and the ones I never would. So, you know, what comes out sounds like me and not like a machine. It knows the man I am trying to serve. And instead of you know, writing for me, it interviews me. It asks me questions and pulls out what I already know and believe, you know, things that you know I might not have thought to say on my own. The ideas are mine, the convictions are mine. It just helps me get them out of my head and into your ears faster and clearer than I could alone. If you have spent years building something, you know things you know, other people need to hear. You know, Claude or Chat, you know, AI, it cannot give you that wisdom. You already have it. What it will do is help you get it out and you know, to the people who need it. The last one is not about business at all. And it might be my favorite. My son has played acoustic guitar for years, and for his 13th birthday, we wanted to get him an electric. One problem. I don't know the first thing about electric guitars. So I just told Claude my problem. When I say Claude, I'm talking about AI, but I just told it my problem here. And instead of say dumping a pile, you know, of information on me, it started asking me questions. You know, things I didn't even know to think about. And 10 minutes later, I knew more about an electric guitar than I would have learned walking into three stores and asking questions. Then we went looking. And at each shop, I took a picture of the guitar with the price tag, and AI told me whether it was a fair deal and a good fit for my son. It kept me from making a bad buy more than once. We ended up finding a used one on Facebook Marketplace, you know, and it had some scratches that worried me. So standing right there in front of the seller, I took photos and sent them over. And AI told me the guitar should go for a bit less because of the damage. I told the seller that. Oh my goodness, she came down with poison ivy really bad. And I didn't know how to help her. Five minutes with AI taught me more than an hour of searching would have. I drove to the store, took pictures of some medicine on the chef, asked which one is right, and came home with the right thing to help her. Here's what I want you to see in all of this. This is not a work tool you say clock out from. It's a sharper mind in your pocket for whatever's in front of you: a contract, a payroll screen, a guitar for your kid, a sick little girl. You know, the same thing that gives you your week back also helps you show up better for the people you know you got the week back for. And as I said earlier, it never takes the place that belongs to God. That is not its job. It just helps you do your job better. Let me bring it back to you. You know, every one of those jobs, the inbox, the contracts, the offers, payroll, the writing, the guitar, you know, it used to cost me time or money or a mistake I could not afford. Now they cost me a fraction of that. And the time I get back goes where it belongs to my wife, to my kids, to the work only I can do. And I want that for you. If you are buried in your business and you are ready to put AI to work the way I have, here's what I want you to do. Find me on Instagram at the WhitneySool, send me a message, tell me where you're stuck and what is eating your week. I read them and I will help you. You will figure out the first job to hand off. Even if we never work together, you do not need to become a tech person. You need someone just to show you where to start. That is what I'm here for. Thank you for being here. Now go put these, you know, to work this week and be present with the people you're doing all this for.