Ep. 49: Breaking Through Roadblocks - How to Use ChatGPT for Clarity and Progress

In this solo episode, Cary tackles the challenge of feeling stuck when facing major professional or personal roadblocks. Drawing from personal experiences and coaching insights, Cary shares how ChatGPT can serve as a powerful tool for organizing thoughts, identifying barriers, and building action plans to move forward. The episode offers practical tips on leveraging ChatGPT to bring clarity to overwhelming situations and introduces key concepts like narrowing the band, role-playing, and creating custom GPTs for long-term problem-solving.

Key Takeaways

• Narrowing the Band: Focus ChatGPT on a specific topic or problem by setting clear criteria, so it can effectively help without overwhelming you with unnecessary information.
• Role-Playing as a Problem-Solving Partner: Use ChatGPT as a sounding board to identify issues, uncover barriers, and define success, one step at a time.
• Building a 90-Day Action Plan: Break goals into smaller, manageable steps across three 30-day periods to make consistent progress toward resolving challenges.

Prompt referenced in the episode

PROMPT:

i need help getting through a major professional roadblock for me and i need someone to talk to…would you please help me? I need to identify:

1. what the specific issue really is

2. what’s keeping me from making meaningful progress towards solving it

3. what does success look like if I could

Can we work through this one at a time?

About Cary

Cary Weston, host of The ChatGPT Experiment, is a marketing strategist and business coach dedicated to helping individuals and organizations maximize their potential using ChatGPT and other innovative tools. With a wealth of experience in leadership and problem-solving, Cary specializes in making complex challenges feel approachable and manageable.

Are you ready to use ChatGPT to be more productive and efficient in your work?

Check out Cary's customized, interactive workshops:

🎯 ChatGPT Marketing Strategy Workshop Transform your scattered marketing ideas into a clear, actionable strategy using ChatGPT as your trusted planning partner.

📱 ChatGPT Social Media System Workshop Build a practical social media system with ChatGPT that saves you time while consistently engaging your audience.

🌐 ChatGPT Website Content Workshop Use ChatGPT to create website content that converts visitors into leads by speaking directly to their needs.

✍️ ChatGPT Business Writing Workshop Make ChatGPT your personal writing assistant while keeping your authentic voice in all business communications.

📄 ChatGPT Document Helper Workshop Turn meetings and conversations into polished business documents automatically using ChatGPT and proven templates.

CONNECT WITH CARY

Podcast Website: www.ChatGPTExperiment.com Cary's Agency Website: www.CMWeston.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caryweston

LINKEDIN NEWSLETTER

The Chat GPT Experiment is also a LinkedIn Newsletter, and you can find it here: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-chat-gpt-experiment-7110348839919702016/

MUSIC CREDITS

The instrumental music used in this podcast is called “Curious” by Podington Bear.