5 ChatGPT Prompts To Thrive On The Rollercoaster Of Entrepreneurship

If you’re running your own business, you will experience a range of emotions every day. Exhilarating highs and crushing lows could take place within the same hour. It’s totally exhausting. But those growing their empire to whole new heights have moved past the fluctuations. They’ve figured out how to stay calm in a storm, stoic in a war zone. Wouldn’t it be amazing to be completely unfazed?

Use ChatGPT to master the entrepreneurial rollercoaster so it doesn’t break you before things get really good. Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat window open so the context carries through.

Thrive during your entrepreneurial journey: ChatGPT prompts to go with the flow

Remember it’s a choice

You chose to turn down a regular paycheck. You chose to bet on yourself instead of taking someone else’s offer for what your time was worth. You made that choice because you knew there was something about you that was bigger than anyone else’s expectations. Never forget it’s a choice. If you are feeling low at any point, remember there’s a fallback. Remember there are a tonne of options you could take. But while you’re rolling with the one you have right now, you might as well enjoy it.

“I need to remember that I chose my current career path, and that means I chose the ups and downs that come with it. Acting as a motivational coach, open a conversation where you ask me questions, one by one, that encourage me to fall back in love with my business and accept that highs and lows will happen. Start with, ‘What do you love about your business?’ and continue after I respond, focusing on my purpose, the difference I’m making, and what I hope to achieve. Become my biggest cheerleader, offering encouragement after every response and including sentences that remind me I chose this path.”

Reframe the lows

So a core team member left and today was slow for signups and no one cares about your last LinkedIn post. So what? Some days you’ll handle every curveball, other days you’ll feel like the world is crashing down. Develop a better system for reframing the lows. Look at every snag as a chance to improve, every negative email as a chance to learn, every coin flip that didn’t go your way as an excuse to keep flipping. Don’t be afraid of adverse news, back yourself to thrive despite it.

“Help me reframe negative occurrences into chances to learn or improve. Start a conversation with the question, ‘tell me about something bad that happened recently’ and wait for my response. When I tell you, ask me 3 questions, one by one, that help me to see why this was a good thing. For example, a rejection is a chance to go in a different direction, a customer leaving is the chance to learn, and so on.”

Take emotion out

Business is not emotional. Business is data. Quantitative feedback holds clues that can be heard if you move past the voice in your head telling you the numbers are linked to your self-worth. They are not. Rather than thinking everything is about you, see the metrics for what they are. Even qualitative feedback is based on other people’s emotions, none of which you need. Boil every component down to the essentials so you can study what they mean. Reframe, regroup and go again, enjoying running experiments until you hit on one that works.

“Help me understand where I’m unnecessarily linking emotion to business metrics. One by one, describe a hypothetical business scenario and ask me to rate how personally I take the news on a scale of 1-10, where 1 = not at all, all I see is data and 10 = I take this scenario personally. Share ten scenarios one by one and encourage me to respond with my score quickly. After 10, draw patterns from my responses and suggest ways of me staying objective and unlinking business metrics with emotion.”

Consider the alternative

At any point you could give it all up and get a job. That’s the easy way out. But there are unlimited other options that can be your plan B. So many entrepreneurs are running their business, convinced there’s a better way of making money. But that’s not conducive to doing your best work, right now. Start where you are, use what you have, but have a backup plan up your sleeve. When you jump, the net appears. If you need a net, use this prompt.

“Sometimes I feel like I need a backup plan to running my business, so I remember that I have other options available. Using my skills of [describe your main skills] suggest 3 other career paths I could explore. Under the title of each one, elaborately and persuasively describe the role, to make it sound as attractive as possible. After presenting the three, ask about my current role and provide an equally attractive description that helps me realize that my current path is still a great option for me.”

Turn comparison to confidence

It’s easy to doubt yourself. When you see others sharing numbers from their launches, trying their best to out 6-, 7- and 8-figure each other, waving their Stripe screenshots and exaggerating every win, it’s easy to compare your milestone with theirs and feel you’re coming up short. But you’re not. Anything that is possible is possible for you. Others doing well is a sign that it’s coming your way. Channel comparison into confidence by thinking about it differently.

“Sometimes I compare myself to other people and it makes me feel [describe the feelings, for example unconfident, unworthy or like I’m falling behind.] Open by asking me about the last time this happened and I’ll tell you something that provoked this reaction. When you have the information, explain how it should make me more confident, not less, in line with the ethos of ‘all that is possible is possible for me’. Your guidance should inspire me to see comparison as a motivator, not a detractor.”

Master the highs and lows with ChatGPT: enjoy entrepreneur life

Entrepreneurship is a rollercoaster. Every day, you’ll go through highs and lows, twists and turns, and making it through will be a test of your mental strength. Use these prompts to find it and use it. Remember it’s a choice, and choose it every day.

Reframe the lows as a chance to learn, take emotion out of data so it doesn’t cloud your judgment. Consider the alternative for a sharp dose of reality, and turn comparison to confidence to maintain your edge. The best entrepreneurs aren’t letting the daily happenings affect their emotions, they’re staying stoic no matter what their experience. That can be you.