How To Build Your Dream Life With AI

Forbes

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How to build your dream life with AI
Living your dream life is more possible than ever before. You can be anyone you want to be, live wherever you want, set up the career that uses your superpowers and spend your time doing work that fills you up and hobbies you enjoy. The robots can handle the rest.
Award-winning entrepreneur Ngozi Elobuike knows this firsthand. The global AI strategist and founder transformed a moment of rock bottom (sleeping on her sister's couch) into a multi-country venture powered by AI. Now living across three countries (U.S., Ireland, and France) and pursuing her third master's degree, Ngozi has built Ireland's first black-led wine club, launched two premium beverage products, written an AI-powered travel book, and taught over 500 creatives how to use AI to unlock their potential. In her recent TEDx talk, that has already had over 200,000 views, Ngozi explains how to use today's tools to create a better tomorrow.
Most people stay stuck in lives they don't love because they think transformation takes years. They believe dream lives belong to other people. The lucky ones with connections, money, or special talents. But AI has demolished those barriers. When you give repetitive tasks to technology, you create space for what matters. Time to explore. Time to build. Time to become who you're meant to be.
I sold my social media agency in 2021 and used AI to build my next business. I learned to delegate everything that wasn't uniquely human to AI. I focus on doing the work I love: writing for Forbes, competing internationally in powerlifting, and living as a digital nomad across 35 cities.
The tools exist. The opportunity is here. You just need to start using them strategically instead of playing around. Stop treating ChatGPT like a toy and start building systems that free your time and amplify your strengths.
"What does a scientist do? They think about life as an experiment," says Elobuike. "You have dependent variables and you have independent variables. You have things that you can control in your settings." She calls AI an independent variable with the power to transform outcomes. "It actually has the ability to act as an enzyme. It has the ability to lower the activation energy needed to complete a task."
Start by auditing where your time actually goes. Track your days for a week. Note what drains you versus what energizes you. Identify the repetitive tasks eating your hours. Those are your first targets for AI automation. Use tools like Claude for writing, Zapier for workflows, or Perplexity for research. Each task you delegate creates space for activities that require your unique perspective and creativity.
Most people use AI for basic tasks when they could be accessing wisdom. "In the absence of an advisory board that has the ability to advise you on your business or the next step, how does AI slot in?" Elobuike asks. "Instead of asking your friend who may be a naysayer, 'hey, I'm thinking about starting this new idea venture', consider asking AI."
Create specialized AI advisors for different areas of your dream life. One for business strategy. Another for creative projects. A third for personal development. Give each specific context about your goals and challenges. "Prompt ChatGPT and say, I have an idea for X. Give me advice as if you were Oprah," suggests Elobuike. "This allows you to gain insight on things that you typically wouldn't have access to."
Most people never start because they think they need the perfect plan. But Elobuike advocates thinking like a consultant: "What consulting teaches you is to think about life as an experiment, but to think along the lines of ROI, return on investment, MVP, minimally viable product, and USP, unique selling point."
You don't need to quit your job tomorrow. Start with micro-experiments. Want to write? Use AI to help you publish one article. Dream of starting a business? Let AI help you validate your idea with market research. "If you want to test whether or not your audience will be interested in a new wine that you're presenting to them, the first step is not to create a wine," Elobuike explains. "The first step is to make a product mockup to see if the design that you've envisioned is something that your audience has an appetite for."
The numbers tell an interesting story. Around 32% of adults believe AI will benefit them, with younger adults and degree holders leading the optimism. Meanwhile, 36% remain sceptical, particularly women and older adults. This gap creates opportunity.
While others debate whether AI is good or bad, you can be building. Their hesitation is your head start. Use AI to maximize your natural talents while sceptics argue about hypotheticals. By the time they catch up, you'll have built the life they're still dreaming about.
"Growth hacking is what startup entrepreneurs created as a term back in 2010," notes Elobuike. "What is growth hacking? Imagine if you got not 1% better every day, but 10% better every day." You don't do this by becoming a robot. You do this by making intentional improvement in areas that matter to you.
Pick one aspect of your dream life. Maybe it's your morning routine, your creative output, or your business systems. Use AI to analyze what's working and what isn't. Test variations. Track results. "If you think about a system of continuous improvement, you thoroughly analyze each step in your user journey and think about how they can gain greater access to your product or service," Elobuike explains. Apply this thinking to your own life journey.
"Sparring is training," Elobuike reminds us. "You will not cut your teeth in your bedroom with your idea on a piece of paper, refusing to take action on it." The dream life you want won't build itself. But with AI as your partner, you can move faster than ever before.
Start today. Open ChatGPT and describe your dream life in detail. Ask it to help you identify the first three steps. Use AI to research, plan, and execute. Let it handle the mundane so you can focus on what makes you irreplaceable. Your dream life isn't a fantasy. It's a project waiting for you to begin.
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