Supercharge Your Productivity with AI: Unlock Success Through a Tailored, Goal-Aligned Strategy
Discover how a tailored, goal-oriented AI strategy can unlock sky-high productivity and accelerate your mission-driven success.
I'm Marissa Brassfield, your guide to thriving with AI. 🙋🏽‍♀️ I help non-technical leaders work smarter, save time, and develop future-ready teams. Let's build a better world together.
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Design a Joyful Morning Routine With Your Family (With AI)
It’s easy to let mornings become a frenzied rush of managing logistics and getting everyone out the door to school or work on time. But what if you took a step back and co-designed a morning routine to optimize joy, ease and alignment?
The Future of AI in Time Management: How Artificial Intelligence Can Optimize Your Schedule and Maximize Your Productivity
In this article, we'll explore how AI is shaping the future of time management and how you can make the most of it.
Embracing AI Without Losing Your Humanity: Navigating the Non-Technical Aspects of AI Implementation
Essential themes to explore as you craft your personal and business AI strategy. Leverage the potential of AI without compromising your humanity.
Creative Intelligence: Deepfakes, Vishing, and the Future of Fraud
I share the earliest signals of a world where ubiquitous deepfakes make it nearly impossible to trust what we see online at face value.
My AI Workflow: Using ChatGPT and Jounce to Create Engaging Blogs
Learn to write blogs with AI tools in 6 steps. Create engaging and informative posts with this step-by-step guide.
The Psychological Impact of Personalizing AI, and How to Treat Machines Working For You
Most of us have only worked with other humans. How do you manage the personal relationship you have with your AI system(s) of choice?
Pro Tips to Improve Your AI Summarization
This article will show you how to get better results from AI summarization tools by personalizing your prompt.
How to Price Your AI-Assisted Writing Work
In this blog post, we'll explore how to price your freelance writing work when using AI to write.
Gartner's Hype Cycle Applied to Conversational Artificial Intelligence - And What This Means for the Future of Work
In this blog post, we will take a look at how Gartner's hype cycle applies to conversational artificial intelligence (AI).
Creative Intelligence #3: Side Effects of Partnering with AI
I share the AI signals I'm tracking this week, and tactical, practical steps to mitigate some of the "side effects" of partnering with AI.
Big Tech on AI: Earnings Call Summaries from Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft
Here are the AI-centric highlights from this week's earnings calls from Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft – summarized by AI, contextualized by me.
Introducing Creative Intelligence
Creative Intelligence is a new offering from Ridiculously Efficient that features the latest emerging business models using AI, time-saving use cases, reviews, and more.
Using Creative AI & ChatGPT in Content Marketing
In 2023, I'm testing artificial intelligence in my content marketing, including creative AI interfaces and natural language processing tools.
Protecting Time to Think
You need dedicated time set aside to think about your work—and that means removing yourself from distractions as much as possible.
My 3-Step Stress Management System
Why does it seem like some people effortlessly manage stress while others are easily overwhelmed? The answer may lie in the differences between our anxiety threshold — the level of anxiety that, once reached or surpassed, affects our performance. In this post, I’ll share my three-step stress management system. Stressors...
The Temporal Frame: How to Get Unstuck by Changing Your Language Around Time
So much of productivity is the mental game, and to improve time management, we must optimize how we think about time. Take a moment and try this thought experiment. Rank the following scenarios according to how energized or excited you feel while imagining them: * Analyzing or reflecting on what'...
Reminder: It's Always Messy in the Middle (But It Won't Always Be That Way)
Changes bring challenges. Sometimes, a change triggers weeks and months of one challenge after another. While it's always messy to be "in the middle" of these challenges, "the middle" doesn't last forever. Inevitably, something falls into place, triggering a set of positive...
Energy vs. Stuff: A Critical Distinction for Time and Focus Management
How do you determine what activities are worth doing, and what to start or stop doing? A key optimization concept I learned from Dan Sullivan, co-founder of Strategic Coach, is the differentiation between energy and stuff. Recognizing this distinction and using it to make better decisions about your time and...
Start 2021 Effectively: 5 Things to Do Every Day in January
I swapped New Year’s resolutions for intentional routines... and it changed everything. Resolutions are fun to set... until you abandon them by Jan 12 (yes, that’s a real stat).Talk about an emotional rollercoaster - the overwhelming emotions from the holidays, entering the New Year with high hopes...
5 Tips From a New Mom to Protect Your Productivity Despite Poor Sleep
It's no shock that sleep influences our creativity and productivity. How can even your most brutal nights lead into highly effective days? As a working mom with a full client load (whose infant son got a batch of 7 teeth in a few weeks), I have a profound...
