Quick question:

How many apps do you have on your phone that you downloaded with big plans and haven’t opened since?

Yeah. Me too.

Six hours at John Lee’s AI seminar and the tool list alone could keep me busy for a year. Wispr Flow for dictation, talk instead of type, and it just works. Higgsfield for AI video generation. Opus for turning one horizontal video into ten vertical clips. Vyra for rough-cutting social media footage without touching an editing timeline. Manus for automation, if you actually finish setting it up.

Here’s the thing though: I didn’t leave that room trying to buy all of them.

I left asking one question per tool: does this actually give me leverage to scale, or does it just feel like flashy AI?

Every dollar you spend needs a return. Not “might,” not “could.” All of these AI subscriptions are a bet, and these bets add up.

So this week, don’t add five tools. Pick the one bottleneck that’s actually costing you time or money, and go find the one tool for that. Explore before you purchase. Test before you commit.

The work works. But only the work you finish.

In peace,
Shonn