Ten weeks of posting every Saturday. Not willpower, not discipline—I built a system. Test Monday, write Wednesday, draw Thursday, use AI for distribution Friday, publish Saturday. The rhythm that finally made consistency possible.

Most of us set revenue targets based on feelings, not math. When I used Claude to reverse-engineer my £5,000 goal into actual sales, the numbers were brutal. Here is the 5-minute validation framework that stopped me from wasting months building for the wrong timeline.

I had data-driven goals for 2026. Then Claude asked one question: "What needs to be true for this March launch to work?" The answer exposed that I was about to repeat the exact pattern that cost me £210 and 200 hours in 2023.

Most goal-setting advice tells you to either follow the data or follow your dreams. But neither alone works. I needed something that could hold both at once: the numbers, the reality, the patterns… and also the ambition, the dream version of the business, the part of me that wants more. The framework has to let them fight it out.

I'd been using ChatGPT for over a year when I realized it was agreeing with me too much. So I asked Claude to roast my ideas instead. What I got was sharp, sarcastic, and uncomfortably accurate - and exactly what I needed. Turns out I didn't need a better assistant. I needed pushback.

When you've got one day to refresh your portfolio and a toddler who doesn't care about your deadlines, you get creative. Here's what happened when I handed the mockup work to ChatGPT and discovered where AI actually saves time—and where it absolutely doesn't.

The real question isn’t “what should I work on today?” but “how do I move long-term projects forward when I only have 90 unpredictable minutes a day?”.