Even more so, when in your heart it\u2019s already spring, but your body is still hibernating. This time of the year has a strange force that persuades you to tidy up. It persuaded me too, but this time it wasn’t about cleaning windows or keeping stock of the closets, but about some order in the daily life. Until recently, chaos was my one and only routine, and I somehow managed to get along with it, but when two additional little chaos-makers entered my life with their small feet pitter-patter, it was finally time to pull myself together. But how? <\/p>
I thought I could use a solid plan, the kind so far I had only found on the bookstore shelf for successful managers. I need to plan out my day, week, month. It’s a bit embarrassing to admit that I have to be told when to get up, prepare breakfast and what to buy \u2013 it just seems that I can fix a broken bumper with a clip and a zip tie, but planning a menu for the whole family for a few days ahead completely overwhelms me. <\/p>
However, I don\u2019t shout anymore: \u201cOooow!\u201d. Now I shout: \u201cAI! Prepare me a plan and a list of products, pretty please! So I don’t have to go shopping more than twice a week. Or cook every day. Please, give me a detailed plan. So that magically, my daily schedule could squeeze in some window-gazing time while sipping on a WARM cup of coffee.\u201d And you know what? A plan was found!<\/p>
The Chat put together a plan for me, in a nice little table I could print out and hang on the fridge. It put together a menu and a shopping list. It took us a while, though. It’s good, but not good enough to guess my whims in a flash, or the series of “buts” that need to be taken into account. BUT… We managed to organize it so that we hardly throw away any leftovers anymore. Simply put: honey for my eco-heart, and for my kids, veggie pancakes after blending the dinner veggies. <\/p>
Unfortunately, organizing the day was not a walk in the park. AI doesn’t have kids (yet?), at least not ones who get sick, throw a tantrum over the color of a plate or demand a diaper change at the most inappropriate moment. Those typical kids who don’t fit into a strict plan at all, you know what I mean? Oh, the many times I sighed at the note on the fridge: \u201cMy plan! You can’t plan a stomach bug or a migraine!” BUT… You can make a plan B.<\/p>
And one day, when I had finally caught up to life\u2019s rhythm and could clap to the beat, everything suddenly went wrong. On the doorstep, all the known health catastrophes for young parents appeared, and I howled again: \u201cAI! Give! Give me! Give me something for these bloody diseases! Because I’ll be struck by lightning, and you won’t have anyone to talk to!” (after all, those hundreds of millions of other users are just not the same). To which the Chat replied: “Don’t worry, you’re not the machine here. Give me your priorities, and I’ll gladly put together a crisis plan for you.\u201d And off it went, instead of a pill, he gave me a little table, which I swallowed even without a drink. <\/p>
Unfortunately, the new plan turned out to be a sad placebo \u2013 when I’m in the eye of the storm, my human chaos still wins in the crisis creativity contest. But after a week without a husband, but with sick children and my own blocked sinuses, I once again repented before the Chat, begging for a hint of inspiration. This time we created the ANTIPLAN. <\/p>
Instead of a tabular regime (eat now, go now, relax now), we created a “possibility base”. This database included so much stuff: word games to play with kids so even their mom learns something while they have fun (here, the Chat helped me, for example, prepare correct sentences and words for learning); motivational slogans like “Are the kids asleep? Take a nap or get some work done”; a list of frozen or pre-cooked meals (which I had already made earlier following the Grand Plan); emergency kits in the form of recommended, age-appropriate fairy tales and videos; lists of words, idioms, and phrases in German I could practice in my free time; simple recipes for pancakes, quick meals, and easy and healthy desserts; coloring books… All that printed out and spread around me \u2013 I prefer paper sheets, so kids don’t see me constantly with the cell in my hand. <\/p>
Thanks to this pretty well-thought-out bag of inspiration, I had something to hold on to and turn to \u2013 and I managed to get through without major casualties, even write texts for work and return to the previous plan (ha!) without stumbling over my own nerves.<\/p>
And when eons later my husband returned from his trip and saw those printed plans, notes, traces of word games and other AI artifacts, he exclaimed with approval: “You’ve gone nuts, but you’re alive and actually looking beautiful!”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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