5 ChatGPT Prompts To Apply Glennon Doyle’s Untamed To Your Work – Forbes
5 ChatGPT prompts to apply Glennon Doyle’s Untamed to your work
Glennon Doyle’s memoir, Untamed: Stop pleasing, start living, was released in 2020 and spent seven weeks at the top of the New York Times’ bestsellers list. With themes including love, work, relationships and societal expectations, it’s a key read for any entrepreneur going into 2024 ready to show up like never before. As the title suggests, this will untame your life. It will release you from the cage in which you’ve been confined. It will show you the key to a brand new you.
The following concepts from Untamed make excellent conversation topics with ChatGPT, to apply Doyle’s wisdom to your life and work. Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat window open so the context carries through.
What is inherent and what is inherited? Doyle asks this question in a bid to discover who she was before the world told her who she should be. You can do the same with this prompt. Dig into what you do out of obligation, expectation or habit. Let go of the need to please other people and focus on pleasing yourself.
“This week, my schedule includes [give details of your upcoming work tasks and commitments]. Act as a life coach with the goal of finding out what should remain in my schedule. Begin a back and forth conversation where you ask me questions about my schedule to ascertain whether specific items within it are there because of obligation, expectation or habit. Dig deep with the questions so I am forced to reimagine why I do what I do.”
When you decide what to remove from your life, you make space for what could be. You find the key, open the cage and escape towards your destiny. But what does that destiny hold? What does the wildest, truest, most untamed version of you do? Not in another lifetime, but in this one. The one you’re living right now should be just right for you.
“Help me figure out my wildest dreams for my life and business. In this conversation, act as my coach with the goal of helping me explore the gap between my dream reality and my current reality. Start by asking me questions to ascertain my wildest dreams, then ask me probing questions about the differences between that dream life and the one I’m living now. After that, identify where I can make changes to align my life and business with my true aspirations.”
Doyle writes new memos for her existence based on the training she wants to instill going forward. No past beliefs, no unquestioned agendas, just rules that are correct at the time of writing. They include the purpose of a family (“to feel both held and free”) and showing up at work. Make your life principles with the help of ChatGPT.
“Help me create my life principles, like memos for my existence, inspired by Glennon Doyle in Untamed. These principles should be free from past beliefs, reflecting what is correct for me at the present moment. Still acting as my coach, suggest 5 memos based on the information you have so far. Then ask for feedback and reword them until I’m happy with the final 5.”
Your new life is ready for living, but will you be brave enough to put it to the test? Don’t leave change to chance. A daily reminder, pinned somewhere you can see, will help you stay on track. Doyle has her favourite mantras as post-its on her mirror and tattooed on her arm. Make your pledge after promoting it into existence.
“I want to make a commitment to my new life principles. Create a selection of daily reminders, whether they’re phrases, mantras, or symbols, that I can place somewhere visible to keep me on track. They should solidify my commitment and ensure I stay aligned with my principles.”
The purpose of friendships, as Doyle learns in her memoir, is not to imagine your friend’s highest potential and push them towards it. Instead, it’s to question them. Understand them. Then support them in finding their way. Just as no one else’s agenda matters for your life, your agenda is not relevant to theirs. Show up for your friends with questions that show them the way. The one they already know they are capable of. Use this prompt to find the questions.
“Assist me in helping my friends unleash their untamed potential, specifically [the name of a friend]. Their situation is [describe your friend’s work, life and current challenges]. Give me 5 questions that will inspire and support them in finding their unique path and realizing their capabilities, along with guidance on how I can be a source of empowerment and encouragement, rather than imposing my own agenda on their lives.”
If you’re in a habit of overstretching, overthinking and overdoing it for other people, now is where it stops. It’s time to stop disappointing yourself. It’s time to demand the best for the one life you get to live. Unpack your training and rework old patterns. Make space for your wildest dreams and understand what’s in the gap. Create the memos for life and work that you stick to no matter what, and get a powerful reminder to show up every single day. Finally, help your friends become wild too. Join forces, share your story, become the most untamed version of you.
