Blog Post: Spring Cleaning Your Life and Business with AI
Spring has officially sprung here in Arkansas! The daffodils are blooming, the redbuds are showing off, and little green shoots are popping up everywhere. It’s that time of year when everything starts to feel alive again. And if you're anything like me, spring brings this urge to clean up, get organized, and totally reset your life.
But what if you could spring clean not just your home, but also your mind, business, and daily routines—with a little help from AI?
In this post, I’m sharing three powerful ways to refresh your life and business using ChatGPT as your personal assistant. These are the exact strategies I use as a homeschooling mom of four, business owner, and farm manager to reduce mental load, streamline systems, and make room for more peace and purpose.
1. Declutter Your Mind with a Daily AI Brain Dump
Let’s start with what’s probably the most overwhelming: the mental load.
Research shows that the average person makes over 35,000 decisions per day—and mental clutter only makes those choices harder. I use ChatGPT every single morning to brain dump everything on my mind: ideas, to-dos, worries, lingering thoughts, and random things I don’t want to forget.
Here’s how you can do it:
✍️ Try this prompt:
"Here’s everything on my mind right now (paste brain dump). Can you help me organize this into urgent tasks, important but not urgent, and things I can delegate or delay?"
Once I’ve dumped everything out, I ask ChatGPT to prioritize and categorize it. This helps me move forward with clarity, not chaos. Bonus tip? Use ChatGPT to send you a weekly recap so you can revisit any flagged ideas that need a second look.
2. Refresh Your Business Systems
Digital clutter = mental clutter. And studies show it can reduce your productivity by up to 30%. Even though I love systems, I still end up with scattered files, unread emails, and buried templates.
Here’s how I let AI help me clean it all up:
- Summarize long emails so I know the action steps without reading every word.
- Create a custom Google Drive folder structure so I stop losing things.
- Draft reusable templates for things I say over and over (like client replies).
Try this prompt:
"Can you help me design a detailed and easy-to-navigate folder structure in Google Drive that covers three main areas of my life: business, home, and personal? I want something that makes it easy to find what I need, stay consistent, and reduce digital clutter."
Want to take it further? Ask ChatGPT to help you spot patterns in your FAQs and write a simple FAQ page for your website!
3. Reset Your Home and Daily Routines
Did you know that an organized home can reduce stress hormones by up to 40%? That’s huge! But I also know how hard it is to clean, meal plan, and manage routines when you're overwhelmed.
Here’s where AI steps in to make life easier:
- Create a rotating cleaning schedule that spreads tasks out over 4 weeks so you don’t have to deep clean everything at once.
- Generate a meal plan based on what’s in your fridge (and include a grocery list).
- Plan fun educational activities for your kids, like a customized nature scavenger hunt for your next hike.
Try this prompt:
"I want a simple cleaning plan that spreads tasks out over four weeks, making it easy for me to accomplish without getting overwhelmed. Can you create one and ask any questions you need to customize it for my home?"
Or:
"We’re planning a nature walk in [your area]. Can you create a fun scavenger hunt based on plants, trees, and wildlife native to that region?"
Final Thoughts
You don’t have to do all of this at once. Just pick one of these areas to focus on this week:
- Feeling overwhelmed? Start with a brain dump.
- Drowning in digital chaos? Refresh your business systems.
- Can’t think straight in your own house? Reset your home routines.
Let AI do the heavy lifting, so you can focus on what truly matters.
If this was helpful, don’t forget to share it with another mama who’s juggling all the things. We don’t have to do it all the hard way anymore.
Let’s make AI work for us—especially in this season of fresh starts.
Until next time, happy spring cleaning!
