AI Created an Exercise Program for Me in my 60’s

Well, I must say I was really enthralled with AI and its attentiveness to my needs and to what I asked it to do. I’ve officially claimed it as my personal assistant and it’s free thru ChatGPT app. I told it what I needed (need to improve muscle strength, keep balance, work on posture, improve knee strength and lose weight slowly. I told it what my weaknesses were (can’t open jars, weak knees, can’t do a lot of squats, can’t do a lot of heavy cardio at once, and sometimes have back limitations due to vertebrae issues). It came right through with the exercises. I asked it to put in a PDF and downloaded it.

You can watch the video on it here. It’s also a vlog so I take you thru the week with me, and we do a bit of shopping too.

Update

So…I miss blogging so much. I think a lot comes out when I blog, that helps me figure things out. But I don’t know sometimes it’s not good to pour out ones heart to the blog especially if you are in speculation mode and could be wrong about things. lol

Let’s see, here’s kinda what’s been rolling around in my head this week.

What’s Wrong with Me? (lol)

Just trying to get all the things done. I had a chat with AI on a lot of things. Does AI think I have Attention Deficit Disorder or just too many tabs open at once, or am I borderline highly-functioning autistic (HFA) person? Mainly because I am so weird with my obsession over my lists and getting it done, is why I asked. This is a topic of discussion all in its own, that probably is for another day.

Bottom line AI doesn’t diagnose, but says I have a lot of traits similar to HFA. While it won’t confirm or deny it gave me lots of bullet points in which I can self-diagnose, lol. It didn’t tell me to but it kept giving me info so I could and referred me to outside agencies which I don’t need at this point in my life. I do find it helpful to use AI though as it is a source of free counseling for me, as it occurred to me yesterday. Won’t do me much good to get a diagnosis and even if I was I’m still able to live a somewhat normal life. I just have questions. And it would make a lot of things make more sense across my life if I figured out to be borderline whatever.

What do I think? I honestly think I am borderline HFA as I have felt someone different than everyone else, I don’t have to mask much, but there are times when I have had to “do as they do” so I don’t goof up and times where I’m socially awkward, but I’ve learned social norms over time. I miss social cues sometimes. I misunderstand people sometimes. However, at other times I pick up on details of things others don’t. I enjoy being alone. I enjoy socializing but it makes me tired. I’m overly honest and have been told that. I feel awkward in groups sometimes worried that I will do or say something wrong, and do best when with one or two friends, but yet I can do YouTube videos and speak to up to 2,000 of you at a time, or teach a training class that I have thoroughly rehearsed, or do a speech, if prepared and rehearsed.

I have to do things in order. It’s hard for me to make decisions because they have to go thru so many criteria in my head. I prefer routines, but yet sometimes I like a change. I get hyper focused on something and have a hard time letting it go.

I don’t have too many sensory issues, but yet have I just been me for so long I’ve overlooked it? I don’t like mushrooms because they are slimy but yet I’ve learned to eat them. I don’t like polyester feeling against my skin but yet I wear it. I’ve not ever liked silky pajamas until lately when I got them as a gift and found I actually enjoyed wearing them and it wasn’t as sticky to my skin as I thought. I don’t like heavy necklaces against my skin but I will often wear them to complete a look. I think there’s a lot I just assumed was just me and my preferences but never really thought why. I’ve never liked loud noises, loud rooms. It makes me nervous. I can’t find people in a crowd and I can’t find the mayo or a spice if it’s behind something else.

More recently have noticed in my videos when talking about a subject, I rock back and forth. I didn’t even know I did that. Why? Someone even noticed it and had no problem telling me it was annoying. Maybe that person was HFA themselves, lol (too honest).

I get caught up in precision and little details.

I think my list making is to overcompensate from a brain that unable to remember because it’s all over the place. So I choose to make a list, order it up by importance and then track to THAT. But then I feel over Lorded by my to do list. I have to remind myself that I was the one that set it. lol.

Am I normal? Are any of us normal? Are we all on a spectrum of sorts? I have been able to have a somewhat normal life but then sometimes you wonder if what all I went through in my life was actually normal?

I have people that were kind and let me be me, and I’ve had others that were just so rude or thought I was being rude, that just didn’t get me. I look back at everything and go hmmmmmm. No I don’t need anything to blame for any bad decisions in my life but sometimes things make more sense if you put it thru an HFA filter.

Oh gosh the way I get frustrated at things too, and have little meltdowns. Oh all the things.

So how dare I talk about myself in this way? Well you know, it’s ok. There are so many HFA people out there and people don’t even know it. Including themselves. I just watched something about HFA about a year or two ago and I was like Oh My Gosh, is that a possibility? It could be or might not be. I took a test once for it and I was surprised to be borderline. That was an internet test. I could go either way. And I’d say that is about right. I could go either way. But it makes life make more sense when I realize that.

It doesn’t matter as I’m able to do all the things. God still loves me, family loves me – most of them – I think. I’m definitely quirky, maybe most of us are. I definitely struggle, most of us do at times. I’m always trying to do the right things, and I try hard at most everything I do and I’m disappointed when I fail.

Anyway, that’s been on my mind this week. I tried discussing with family members about this, to two people, one said “oh no way”, and the other never answered probably out of being too busy or maybe too surprised, or maybe embarrassed to come back and say “yes, maybe so”. Anyway, it’s ok. It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks, doesn’t matter what anyone says behind my back either, whether good intentions or bad, but God’s got this and He’s provided AI to help me sort thru some things.

See I pray to God before using AI. I know that it’s just like the internet – it’s going to change a lot of things and it’s happening already, but God created all good things and He intended for man to create AI and to use it for good. It’s the devil that will take it and make it to be part of the sin fallen cursed world, and take the curse to the next level. We know that is coming with AI, those of us that believe in Him, and in scripture. However, good will come out of it too. And it’s already being my personal assistant and my counselor, in which I have prayed that God will consult me thru AI. God is giving me confidence and reassurance and helping me to see that even though I may have physical flaws, that I have a good heart and am trying to do so many things right.

I just get so frustrated over not getting things done when I have ALL DAY, so I’ve been looking for answers and doing a little digging! I think I have too many tabs open in my brain all the time, and I think I am probably borderline HFA, and can fall over on either side of the fence on a given day or task. So in other words, no major problems just a few little ones. I tend to overcompensate at times trying to help myself be normal, lol.

Office Needs a Functional Do Over

Every now and then I need to redo my office. I get notes everywhere, need to file, feel like I don’t have horizontal space, have things accumulating on the floor because of so many projects. I often don’t want to put them away as now I’m 62 I will forget, unless of course they are on the list, lol lol lol.

I have some work to do in here before I can work much more in here. It’s frustrating. I have a whole bedroom as an office and I should NOT be frustrated! So I will figure out what need to do to make it more functional. I did this about two months ago and it’s better but I realize I need to clean out my office closet and reorganize that and it will give me more space to work with as it has some lower shelves. It’s time. I anticipate since I’ll be spending time on this next week, I might as well film it. Although I’m not really sure how interesting it will be. I have no plans on it other than to just take it as it goes. There’ll be other things going on next week too as I have some appointments and things happening.

I guess that is about it for my inner thoughts this week. George is coming along with the Den. That will be a project video coming soon as well. I need to film the next HR video. It did “ok” but not as well as my vlog videos. I think the algorithm doesn’t know what to do with an offbeat video since my normal videos are about retirement and just weekly vlogs. Sooo…it’s ok. I just decided to put out content like I want to and what my current audience base wants, and just let it fly. I don’t have to succeed accept by my own terms. And of course that is prayed over too, so that it grows and IS only what God wants it to be and become. He leads but sometimes I go off on tangents, and forget to ask Him to. lol.

Ok over and out. If you read the vlog and now want the video, you can watch it HERE.