ChatGpt Got This Wildly Right

A biweekly note from me, Renee — with words for women that are tender but not precious, wise but not preachy, honest without wallowing.

On Mother's Day, I broke my ankle.

That's not a metaphor. I actually broke it.

So I did what any sensible 61-year-old does when she can't move. I started picking a bone with ChatGPT.

I gave it a prompt and it gave me a prompt response. The answer came back clean and simple and a little devastating, the way truth sometimes is.

Here was the prompt.

Here's what it wrote back:

Your purpose is not to run an ecommerce store.

Your purpose is not to create journals.

Your purpose is not to build a newsletter, a YouTube channel, a Pinterest engine, a Shopify funnel, or a beautiful brand.

Those are vehicles.

Your true purpose is to translate pain, wisdom, and lived experience into language that helps women trust themselves again.

Whoop, there it is. The thing I've been so unable to name. The work that six decades of life has brought me to.

It also said a few things that would be rude if they weren't so true.

You may be addicted to potential. You are over-capable, under-focused, and still slightly hiding behind preparation.

Yikes. Guilty as charged.

Tag. You're it. Run the prompt. Let me know if you get a truth bomb to share.

Kelly Clarkson shares this hard truth she got from her therapist (and a message we probably all need to hear).

Alicia Keys shares the single most powerful word a people pleaser can speak.

The secret to an extraordinary life might come down to this one morning practice. (Also, if you have daughters, this entire video is a must see.)

"I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall — I dove."

— Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair