🌱 Welcome + Framing

Before we begin, let’s set one thing straight:

You don’t need to know anything special. You don’t need to be technical, or organized, or have it all figured out.

You’re not here to follow someone else’s system.
You’re here to start shaping small systems that help, systems that reflect how you actually work.

That’s what this course is for.

🌱 Why AI feels like it keeps letting you down

If you’ve tried AI before and felt let down, you’re not alone.

Maybe it worked for a little while.
Maybe you found a template that seemed promising at first.
Maybe you even thought: “This is it. I’ve cracked it.”

But then it drifted. It stopped helping. It started getting in your way.

This isn’t because you’re not smart enough.
It’s not because you’re “bad at AI.”
It’s because you were trying to force tools that weren’t designed for your patterns, for how you actually think, work, and create.

🌱 The real cost of forced tools

When you try to use systems that don’t match how you work, two things show up:

✅ Friction — Tasks that should be simple feel heavy. Every interaction takes more energy than it should.

✅ Drift — Even when something works at first, it starts to slip. The system stops helping. You feel like you’re back at square one.

And because no one ever taught us that this mismatch is the problem, we blame ourselves.
Maybe I’m just not built for this. Maybe I can’t keep up.

But that’s not the truth.

🌱 Your first small step

👉 Take a few quiet minutes
👉 Write down:

• One tool or template that felt like it worked at first but didn’t last (Drift)

• One task or tool that always felt heavy or frustrating (Friction)

You don’t have to get it perfect.
This is about starting to see the patterns that have been with you all along.

🌱 The key that unlocks what’s ahead

Once you see where friction and drift have shown up, you’ll start to see why what you build next will feel different.
The small systems we’ll create from here will be shaped around your patterns. That’s why they’ll start to help.

🌱 What’s next

Next, we’ll look at what small, supportive systems actually look like, so you can start to see what’s possible when AI stops fighting you and starts helping.