Design your 30-60-90 day plan

Okay, time to turn whatever remaining anxiety you have into empowerment and agency with your own personal 30, 60, 90 action plan. Let's walk through the basics together. Day one to 30 are the foundation. Focus on one daily task and get AI curious. Pick a single repetitive thing like e-mail drafts or news summaries or data collection and try different AI tools on it. copilot, Cloud, ChatGPT, whatever tools your workplace provides and allows. Keep a running document tracking what worked, what didn't, and what you want to try tomorrow. Also, find your crew and cohort. Invite three to five peers to be your AI practice partners. Each week, all of you try the same micro-challenge and share your results. Momentum and learning loves company. By the day 30 milestone, you've tested some tools, identified two to three tasks to automate, and you're not alone. You're on this journey with your peers. Days 31 to 60 are all about integration. Automate and reallocate. Hand off your top three Bucket 1 tasks to AI and spend the reclaimed time on growing your value by focusing on Bucket 3 items like strategy, stakeholder trust, and creative problem-solving. Choose two of the five Cs to develop further and level up. So creativity, curiosity, courage, compassion, and communication. And ask yourself daily, what unique human value can I create today? Scan what's happening right now and what's on the horizon. What AI practices are becoming standardized? What new AI features are launching? And how is your industry changing? Share what you learn and how you're incorporating it into your practice in a short post or video on LinkedIn, each week to make it stick. By this 60-day milestone, 20-30 percent of your time has shifted towards high-value work. You've grown in two of the five Cs, and you're aware of and aligned with what is coming next. Day 61 to 90 are the full transformation where you build your own story. Take a step back and assess your work environment. Do you have easy access to the AI tools that aid in your transformation? And does your leadership support this AI use? Write your narrative with three blurbs. A 30-second pitch describing who you've helped, what outcomes you produced, and your AI amplified edge. A two-minute story with a real example where you used AI to solve something others missed. And a five-minute vision describing where you're headed and how you'll get there. have the transformational AI conversation. Tell your manager, here's what I tried, here's the value it created, and here's the bigger impact I can drive next. By this 90-day milestone, you'll have clear evidence you've evolved your work, a compelling story of your edge, and paths you can follow towards continued growth, pivoting your role, or building something new. That's where you're headed. Here's your five-minute action for right now. Open your calendar and set reminders for each of the 30-day milestones. Schedule two 15-minute experiments this week, and invite one person to be your practice partner. That's how you start. That's how we all start. Let's get crackin'.