ChatGPT didn't exist when I started (you have it 10x easier)

December 15th, 2020. 2:47 AM.

I was hunched over my laptop in my childhood bedroom, eyes burning from staring at the screen for the past six hours straight. My back ached. My head pounded. But I couldn't stop.

I had to create tomorrow's content for @passionateincome, and the process was absolutely brutal.

First, I'd spend two hours scrolling through other accounts, desperately hunting for content ideas that might work. Then another two hours creating graphics in Canva, tweaking colors and fonts until they looked decent enough to post. Writing captions took another 45 minutes of staring at a blank screen, trying to find the right words that would actually engage people.

By the time I finished, the sun was coming up. Five hours of my life gone, just to create three pieces of content.

I remember thinking, "There has to be a better way."

But there wasn't. Not in 2020.

Fast forward to yesterday. I got a message from Matas, one of my students who's currently working from Vietnam.

"Arnas, I just hit 460K followers working 45 minutes a day. What took you years of grinding took me six months. Thank God for AI."

I stared at that message for a long moment, feeling a mix of pride and, honestly, a little jealousy. This kid achieved in months what took me years of sleep-deprivation and burnout.

The difference? He started his journey in the age of ChatGPT.

While I was manually researching content for hours, AI now finds viral hooks in five minutes. Where I spent entire evenings writing captions from scratch, AI now creates compelling copy that converts better than anything I wrote by hand. What used to be guesswork about posting times and hashtags is now data-driven optimization that happens automatically.

Matas isn't special. He's not smarter than I was. He's not more creative or more dedicated. He just has access to tools that didn't exist when I was grinding until sunrise.

But here's what I've discovered watching hundreds of people try to use AI for their Instagram businesses: 93% of them are doing it completely wrong.

They treat ChatGPT like it's Google. They ask random questions, get mediocre responses, and wonder why their results are disappointing. They're like someone who bought a Ferrari but only drives it in first gear.

The 7% who succeed understand something different. AI isn't just a tool - it's a complete system that can handle the repetitive, time-consuming work that used to eat up entire days. But only if you know exactly how to direct it.

This Monday at 11am EST, I'm pulling back the curtain on everything I've learned about using AI to build faceless Instagram businesses. You'll see the exact prompts that turn four hours of work into 45 minutes. The specific workflows that students like Matas use to build massive followings while I was still figuring out basic automation.

I'll show you the five-part AI content formula that creates three days worth of posts in 17 minutes, and demonstrate live how AI handles everything from viral hook research to caption optimization to posting schedule analysis.

Look, I'm proud that I built my business the hard way. Those 2 AM grinding sessions taught me what actually works. But if I was starting today, with AI handling 75% of the heavy lifting, I'd probably slap my past self for not having access to these tools.

You don't have to grind like I did. You don't have to sacrifice sleep, relationships, and sanity to build something meaningful.

Monday could be the day you discover that building a $4-6K monthly business doesn't require the hustle culture torture I put myself through. It just requires the right system.

Reserve your seat for Monday's AI Freedom Workshop

We've passed 350 registrations and I'm capping this at 500 people total. Everyone who secures their spot gets my complete 6-hour Instagram Business Automation training as a bonus.

But more importantly, you get to skip the years of trial and error that nearly broke me.

Arnas

P.S. Sometimes I wonder what my 2020 self would think if he could see how simple this has all become. Probably cry tears of relief. Monday, you get to start with the tools I wish I'd had.