After days of feeling less cheerful due to stresses like maintaining a home, familial issues, and financial requests, the author asked ChatGPT for stress-reducing techniques. The chatbot provided seven basic strategies backed by strong evidence, which the author added to a daily routine. These included a 45-minute bike ride, inhaling/exhaling techniques for seconds at a time, avoiding brightly lit screens for 30-60 minutes before bed, journaling responses to questions like “what’s actually stressing me out the most right now?” and “what are the three things I’m most grateful for right now?”, eating an afternoon meal without doomscrolling, having random conversations with loved ones during work breaks, easing up on liquid caffeine, and listening to soothing sounds of waves crashing against cliffs. The author found these methods easy to enact and reported a much better mental state, gaining a sense of progress and fulfillment from comparing past and new journal passages.