Purpose

I finished reading The Purpose Code by Jordan Grumet yesterday. Initially, I didn’t enjoy the book and put off completing it until the end of 2025 while in a mad dash to wrap up books I started reading this year. The last two sections were more enjoyable than the first, and I found myself more committed to living out little moments of purpose as the new year approaches.

Instead of berating myself for not meeting certain goals, I’m going to enjoy daily processes more. I want to enjoy my morning coffee, enjoy writing something each day, enjoy loving my family, and find meaning in the little activities of each day. I also want to build more community in my life. I don’t really have that at the moment-outside of my family. I think joining the WordPress.com community is a great place to start!

AI Outlines

This morning, I thought about how I put off goals out of an abundance of fears that pop into mind and hijack my motivation and enthusiasm for certain projects. So, I revisited a book outline that I created last year. Decided that I didn’t love the outline so I deleted large portions of it, except for the 4-part book structure.

Then, I thought about how to get cracking on this book that I planned last year but still haven’t written. Generative AI seemed to provide a process to speed past the gruelling basic outline portion of each book section so I uploaded what I had into ChatGPT.

The resulting outline was clinically good. It was inclusive of people with mental health issues. It was dry. It wasn’t what I wanted to create at all. Uploading my ideas to ChatGPT just made me realise that I’m capable of creating a better outline. One that honours my thoughts and feelings about my mental health journey and how I want to live “little p Purpose” (The Purpose Code) in my life when it comes educating and helping others about mental health recovery.

Sometimes I ask the AI in the WordPress portal to come up with titles of blog posts, but I usually change them to something I like better. I think AI can help us look at how someone else, or the current version of AI, would approach a subject or topic or title, but I think we have to trust ourselves that our thoughts, preferences, research, and experiences are worthy of inclusion.

The other day, I downloaded a Kindle Unlimited book and realised it was written by AI. In short: I returned the book and didn’t finish reading it. Books I start reading on my Kindle upload to my Goodreads profile so I need to delete that entry. I don’t really want to read books generated by AI unless it is a manual of some sort. I prefer reading about other people’s thoughts and experiences as human beings.

Concluding Thoughts

I want to live a more intentional life in 2026. And, I don’t want my fears about what bad things could happen if I write books or blogs on mental health recovery to render my life void of purpose. I don’t want to regret not trying to educate and help others when my life is concluding.

And while I enjoy the challenge of learning about how AI would approach a topic I want to write about, I don’t envision myself ever trusting AI more than my own human experience about mental health recovery. I can be inspired, but all of my thoughts and experiences and research are just as valid and worthy of being shared.

I hope you find your thoughts, experiences, preferences, and research about whatever you want to write about worthy of inclusion too. I think there is community abundant for everyone’s experiences to be shared. And, I hope we do not give up our very human community to trust AI more than ourselves in all situations. Rather, I hope that AI challenges us to be more creative and more human over the course of our lifetimes.