Whether you work to live or live to work, keeping a good balance between the hours at work and time spent at home with loved ones can be tricky.
Luckily, recent advancements in AI brings more than just a new frontier in entertainment and content creation. AI tools can be lifesavers when it comes to establishing an efficient workflow and organizing your life, both in and out of the office.
1. Establish your professional presence
If youâre following a professional career path, youâll understand just how important it is to keep up an optimal image online. A popular way to do so is with an up-to-date LinkedIn profile as itâs often the first impression a potential employer or colleagues will have of you.
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But if the idea of using regular professional photoshoots to get that perfect LinkedIn profile picture is too daunting to face, or too far out of reach because of time or money constraints, then why not get AI to help you out?
AI headshot generators like Portrait Pal (portraitpal.ai) make it easy to generate realistic and high-quality headshots for LinkedIn or other professional purposes. These headshots can be generated in just a few hours or less, saving you lots of time and money in the process â two resources that can be utilized for other work or spent on activities outside the office.
2. Optimize scheduling
Letâs face it, manually scheduling both work and personal appointments across multiple calendars can be a drain. This is where AI scheduling assistants can help. Instead of juggling different time slots and availability, you can let the software optimize it for you.
Need help placing tasks on your calendar and rescheduling conflicts? Want to do less context-switching? Different AI apps can provide different benefits. For example, Reclaim can help you track your habits and manage recurring events, while SkedPal helps with time blocking and time budgeting.
3. Automate repetitive tasks
Often, the most time used up at work is due to carrying out repetitive tasks. So why not let AI do the work for you? Your workplace may already use some AI tools to streamline team collaboration, but managing your personal repetitive tasks can help you increase your overall efficiency in the office.
From data entry and data processing (like transferring information to databases) to customer support and email management, there are numerous AI tools that can be utilized for the 9-to-5 grind. Popular ones include ClickUp, Scribe, and Relay.
4. Streamline communication
Have you ever received a work text or email outside of work hours and spent too much time agonizing over the perfect way to respond? AI can help you take the guesswork out of communication by crafting the best response for any context.
You can even use chatbot prompts to improve your communication skills both at work and at home, including mentoring, negotiation, coaching, and providing appropriate feedback. And if you struggle with the overwhelming amount of collaboration and communication in your everyday life, AI tools can even make this information more succinct and digestible.
5. Track your fitness
Keeping your mind and body healthy is usually a priority when it comes to incorporating more balance into your life. AI can revolutionize how you track your fitness and health, whether you want to lose weight, train for a marathon, or just keep up with a well-rounded exercise routine.
AI software is now integrated into fitness wearables, like the popular high-tech watches and rings, and provides wellness tips, fitness data analysis, and answers to questions to transform your fitness journey. By using their own stats, users can make their fitness plan more personalized and engaging.
6. Improve learning
In the past, if you wanted to learn a new skill for work or a hobby, youâd have to trawl through pages on the internet or work through numerous online or in-person courses. Nowadays, AI makes learning even more interactive and engaging with personalized learning courses, AI tutoring, and even tools that can automatically take notes from YouTube videos and summarize long documentation. And if you want your new information to be given to you in a conversational tone, many work tools already have in-built AI for this function, like Gemini for Google Cloud.
Experts speculate that the reason why AI can help improve knowledge retention is due to how it makes learning addictive. Tools like ChatGPT can create hyper-targeted âlessonsâ in a matter of a few seconds across almost all subjects, from trigonometry and calculus to how to build a greenhouse.
7. Help you make decisions
To do or not to do? Is option A better than option B? Those are a couple of common types of questions many of us have struggled with at some point in our lives. In psychology, decision fatigue happens to individuals after a long session of decision making on a regular basis. This can lead to an increase in procrastination and lowered emotional wellbeing.
One way to combat this is by using AI to help you make decisions. In the workplace, revolutionary decision-making AI tools can analyze data to make decisions, while at home, you can simply ask AI for recipes, movie recommendations, or even things to do on the weekend.
8. Improve content creation
Whether you want to keep up to date with your social media accounts or need additional help formulating a piece of writing, AI can help improve the process of content creation â both at work and in your personal life.
Grammarly, ChatGPT, Quillbot, and Writesonic are popular AI tools for writing. For photography or graphic design, Canva, Lensa, and Adobe Photoshop are great options to take your pictures to the next level. From ideation to post-creation editing, AI tools have become an invaluable part of the content creation process.
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