I love a checklist.

Like, deeply. If there is a box next to a task, I want to check it. I don’t care if I wrote down “pop open a Coke” after I already drank the damn Coke. That box is getting checked.

So, I decided I needed some structure.

But not a rigid, corporate-looking schedule that makes me want to throw my laptop into a lake. I'm not that girl anymore.

More like a realistic weekly plan that helps me stay focused on the things I care about right now.

So I opened ChatGPT and basically said:

Here are the things I’m working on.
Here are my goals.
Ask me a bunch of questions to drill down and help me plan my days.

And that’s exactly what happened.

I told ChatGPT about Media Maven, my PR and content creation agency. I told it I want the agency to grow, but I don’t want to be buried in client work all day because I have a team for that.

I told it about Christina All Day, my bookish brand, where I post daily on Instagram and publish a YouTube video once a week. I also told it I want to turn those YouTube videos into a newsletter and blog post.

I told it about the online groups I’m in for Instagram, YouTube, and B2B marketing, and how I want to actually use them instead of letting them become another place where I pretend scrolling is research.

Then ChatGPT started asking me questions.

• How much money do I want Media Maven to bring in every month?
• What kind of clients do I want?
• What do I want to sell?
• When do I usually publish YouTube videos?
• Do I want weekends off?
• Do I want Fridays to be lighter?

Basically, it made me answer the questions I probably would’ve avoided if left unsupervised.

From there, it helped me build a weekly schedule.

Monday became Media Maven day.
Tuesday became YouTube creation day.
Wednesday became editing day.
Thursday became publish and repurpose day.
Friday became cleanup and review day.

Then I took that plan and moved it into Canva, because if I’m going to follow a checklist, it might as well be cute.

Now I have a pretty weekly printable with each day broken down into simple tasks.

Things like:

• Check Slack messages.
• Pick/finalize YouTube topic.
• Write Substack version.
• Review YouTube analytics.
• Clear inbox/messages.

Is it groundbreaking? No.

Is it exactly what my brain needed? Absolutely.

This is one of my favorite ways to use ChatGPT, because sometimes you need someone, or something, to ask you better questions.

I didn’t just say, “Make me a schedule” based on xyz.

I gave it context, shared my goals, told it what I didn’t want to do, answered a bunch of specific questions, and then I used the answers to create something I’d actually use.

And now I have a weekly checklist that feels realistic instead of overwhelming.

Which is good, because again, I love a checklist.

Now, excuse me while I go add “make checklist” to my checklist so I can check it off.

Christina

PS. Speaking of YouTube, I ranted about Every Year After. WTF was that? Amazon did he book dirty, but they brought us Off Campus, so I can't be too mad.