A few months ago, I asked myself a simple but honest question: “Can I actually make income online?” Not someday. Not in theory. But prove it — with action. I wrote. I published. I learned the systems. I showed up when it felt uncomfortable. This month, the answer came back clearly: Yes. It’s possible. Not massive. Not finished. But real. So now I’m asking the next question: “How do I grow this monthly income — and scale it to new heights?” More clarity. More consistency. Better systems. Serving the right people deeper. This isn’t a finish line. It’s a foundation. Onward. Always learning. Always building. — Kent

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There’s no shortage of AI tools, tutorials, and trends out there. Every week, a new platform claims to revolutionize your workflow or make your business unstoppable. It’s exciting at first, but before long, that excitement turns into fatigue. If you’ve ever opened your browser with ten tabs full of AI apps, each promising to save time, only to feel more confused than productive, you’re not alone. Our team has seen this pattern again and again. People don’t struggle with AI because it’s difficult. They struggle because there’s too much of it. AI overwhelm doesn’t come from complexity, it comes from chaos. The good news is that clarity is possible. You just have to change how you approach learning and using AI. ---- Why Overwhelm Happens ---- The first thing to understand is that AI overwhelm isn’t a knowledge problem. It’s an expectation problem. We’ve been conditioned to believe that success with AI means keeping up with everything — every new tool, every new update, every “must-know” trick. That’s impossible. Nobody, not even experts, can stay on top of it all. Instead of trying to master AI in its entirety, you need to master how it fits into your world. Overwhelm happens when you chase novelty instead of utility. When you focus on what’s new instead of what’s useful, you end up learning a hundred things halfway instead of one thing deeply. ---- The Shift: From Exploration to Intention ---- When our team first started diving into AI, we made the same mistake. We tried everything. Every app, every browser extension, every new prompt formula. We thought variety would make us smarter. It didn’t. It made us scattered. Then we made one small but important shift. We decided to use AI intentionally. Instead of asking, “What can this tool do?”, we started asking, “What do we actually need?” That single question changed everything. 1. Focus on outcomes - Start every AI interaction by defining what success looks like for you. 2. Ignore the noise - You don’t need to try every tool. Stick with what solves your real problems. 3. Learn through action - Use AI to do something real today, not just to experiment for tomorrow.

As a business owner and agency owner who educates people in my local community about AI (through the library and small businesses), I wanted to share a few ways that I have discovered that people can implement AI without feeling overwhelmed. The suggestions that I am giving below aren't to say you have to incorporate them all, but just pick one or two and as you get comfortable, incorporate a few more that make sense for your business... - You can use ChatGPT as your partner to run ideas by- analyze your strategy, challenge your approach, assist you in identifying your target audience if you are just getting started. Use the "voice" mode and ask it to ask you challenging questions to get to the core issue you are having based on the topic and it will transcribe the conversation on the back end so you will always have it. - You could create an app through vibe coding that holds your SOPs or Training information (nothing confidential or proprietary) so new people joining your team can learn from that tool vs. you or a team member having to take the time to train them (instead, you can question what they learned afterwards or have AI create a flash-card or memory based quiz, crossword, etc. to test their knowledge in fun/creative ways) - You can include a web chatbot on the home page of your website to answer questions about your business and even schedule appointments - You can reinvigorate your email list by having ChatGPT come up with creative email campaigns per quarter that are 75% educational (about your industry or business) and 25% Calls to Action for Sales so they don't feel like you are consistently selling. Ask AI what perks you can offer your customers (like birthday discounts for their birthday month or referral rewards). If you use a platform like GHL, you can set everything up with automations on a quarterly basis as well. - You could get a voice concierge agent that works 24/7 and never misses a call if you are a business that could benefit from that. They sound human, and their knowledge-base knows everything about your company and website and it can answer most questions and book appointments if connected correctly to your calendar. - You could use AI to create presentations for you. I am speaking at an AI Summit next year, and I put the information I wanted to talk about in Claude, then asked it to fill in any gaps about AI I might have overlooked or missed that would be important to cover for that audience and asked it to put it into more of a "TedTalk" type format...then once I liked the result, I took it to the presentation creation app (Gamma) and in about 50 seconds, I had the full presentation with images and graphs completed. Game Changer!