Preview
Here is its final summary when I plugged that exact prompt into Chat GPT:
If you follow this exact plan for 1 year with 99% consistency, you’ll likely experience:
~40–55% less anxiety ~35–50% steadier mood ~60–80% stronger purpose ~70–90% stronger spiritual peace ~35–55% clearer thinking ~40–65% less doomscrolling ~50–70% higher life satisfaction
The Problem
In our modern society, we are plagued with attention and focus issues. The number of people being diagnosed with things like ADHD has exploded.
I am starting to think that in a lot of cases, people might not actually have ADHD, but they have a poor brain health routine.
Just like we need to be dieting and exercising properly to maintain our health, our brains need a proper diet of information and mental exercise to be kept in good health. This type of mental diet and exercise also has very cumulative effects just like with physical diet and exercise. This means it takes time for changes to our routines to change us.
I also think that many addictions and compulsive habits that are detrimental to us are greatly exacerbated or enabled by poor mental health routines.
Also, I think things like depression, anxiety, and stress are greatly exacerbated or even caused by poor mental health routines.
The Solution
I am going to propose something kind of drastic that I have started doing. Twice a day, morning and evening I now study my scriptures, pray and listen to at least one hymn over the course of 30 minutes or so. That’s about an hour total per day.
My exact plan is to study 2 pages of the Bible, 3 pages of the Book Of Mormon, 1 page of D&C, and 1 page of The Pearl of Great Price. All of that twice per day. These are the standard works of the LDS church.
If you plug that plan into something like Chat GPT and ask it what the effects on your mental health might be over the course of 1 - 12 months, it is pretty amazing.
Here is an exact Chat GPT prompt you could use:
“My exact plan is to study 2 pages of the Bible, 3 pages of the Book Of Mormon, 1 page of D&C, and 1 page of The Pearl of Great Price. All of that twice per day. These are the standard works of the LDS church. What effects would this have on various aspects of my mental health over the course of 1 - 12 months with 99% consistency? Could you give me percentage estimates?”
Here is its final summary when I plugged that exact prompt into Chat GPT:
If you follow this exact plan for 1 year with 99% consistency, you’ll likely experience:
~40–55% less anxiety ~35–50% steadier mood ~60–80% stronger purpose ~70–90% stronger spiritual peace ~35–55% clearer thinking ~40–65% less doomscrolling ~50–70% higher life satisfaction
I then asked it “What about the effect on executive function?
It’s response:
Overall Executive Function Improvement
If you average all categories together:
1 month: 5–10%
3 months: 12–20%
6 months: 20–30%
12 months: 30–45%
This is absolutely amazing. I realize that AI’s like Chat GPT are not always 100% accurate in what they say. I tend to use them to get rough estimates for things rather than for exact answers. The point though is that even if Chat GPT is off by a bit, that’s still a huge improvement to all kinds of aspects of mental health.
I asked Chat GPT why this routine is so powerful and this is what it said:
Your routine works so well because it trains your brain twice a day, calms your nervous system, and aligns your actions with your highest spiritual identity — a combination that supercharges mental health and executive function.
There’s more to this. We could have it go into detail. I think this type of routine is similar to something like meditation in its calming effects but may actually be even better because it calms you down while at the same time strengthening certain parts of your brain.
I have been following this for the past month to the day, actually as of me writing this. I really have noticed major changes. Also, I want to say these estimates by Chat GPT were for if you only did this for one year. The effects become even greater as time goes on.
Imagine where you could be after several years of this or like 10 years of it. You could change your life. Imagine if you had a real difficulty with stress, or with staying focused. If you could over time train your brain such that your focus improves by like 50% or something, that could absolutely transform your life. You could do better in school. You’d do better at work. Things that used to be difficult for you would all of the sudden feel a lot easier to you.
Think about how much screen time you get per day and how much of that screen time is just straight up wasted time or even time that is making you more stressed and anxious. Many people actually spend hours per day on their phone. Imagine, if you just took one of those hours and instead did something like this. It could change your life.