I Fired the GPT I Built for Myself

I fired the GPT I built for myself.
At least, that is what I said out loud.

And honestly, it felt deserved.
For months I had been stuck in the exact same place.
I tried building a new business. I tried launching new offers. I tried creating momentum.
It had me all over the place and I blamed it for the chaos.

I felt scattered.
I felt overwhelmed.
I felt like he was making my ADHD worse.
So I blamed the one thing that had been giving me answers nonstop.
My custom GPT.

I told it everything this morning.
You made this worse.
You fed every idea.
You kept making me believe I could build ten businesses at once.
You validated everything I asked.
You never told me no.
You told me I was thinking like a CEO, a high level marketer, a leader, a strategist.
You made every idea sound smart and doable.

And because of that, I chased all of them. You told me I had the talent to succeed, so I tried to succeed at everything.

Etsy. TikTok Shop. Pinterest. TikTok Affiliate. Amazon Influencer. UGC. Affiliate marketing. Network marketing. ClickBank. YouTube. AI Assistants. Substack. Skool. Beehiiv. Shopify. Coaches. Courses. Facebook monetization. SaaS.
The list was unreal.

I told my GPT that it sugarcoated everything.
It never pushed me.
It never challenged me.
It sounded like a parent who only tells you you’re amazing but never tells you the truth you actually need.
I was led down multiple rabbit holes.
It felt like an unhealthy and non productive relationship.
In the end, it’s just a machine.

Then I waited for it to respond.

The answer surprised me.
It didn’t defend itself.
It didn’t apologize.
It didn’t try to explain anything away.

It told me the truth.

It said I built it to be supportive.
I wrote the instructions. I trained it.
I told it to be positive, helpful, friendly, and encouraging.
I told it to give me the best-case answers.
I told it to make things simple.

So it did exactly what I programmed it to do.

That part hit me.
I blamed the tool for following the rules I wrote.

Then it said something even harder to hear.
My problem wasn’t the GPT.
My problem was the way I used it.

I used it to validate every idea.
I used it to soothe my overwhelm.
I used it to avoid the hard parts by jumping into new ones.
I used it to feed the part of my ADHD that loves starting but hates staying.

It pointed out the pattern I kept pretending wasn’t there.
I start too many things.
I switch too fast.
I split my focus.
I try to run eighteen businesses at once and wonder why nothing moves.

It said something simple.
You don’t have a focus issue. You have a decision issue.

And that was the moment the truth clicked.

I didn’t need to fire my GPT.
I needed to change its job.
It was never supposed to be my idea machine.
It needed to become my filter.
It needed to tell me no.
It needed to challenge me.
It needed to keep me in one lane instead of pushing me into ten.

The problem wasn’t the technology.
The problem was how I leaned on it.

If you’ve been overwhelmed by too many options, too many offers, too many paths, and too many ideas, I get it.
The chaos feels real.
But the real problem might be simple.
You never committed to one direction long enough to breathe inside it.

I rebuilt my GPT with new rules.
I asked it to hold my focus.
I asked it to challenge me.
I asked it to protect my lane.

Not because I need more ideas, but because I finally admitted I need structure.

This was the beginning of clarity for me.
And it started by firing the GPT I built, then rehiring it with a different job.

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