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Self Growth: STOP Setting New Years Goals. Use the AI Anti-Resolution Framework Instead 🔥🚫

Shows You What To Subtract, Who To Avoid, And What To Unlearn To 10X Your Results With Half The Effort And Win In 2026

“I Quit 80% Of My Commitments Using AI Anti-Resolution Analysis And Made More Profit Than Ever, Here's The Subtraction Strategy That Works"

— Cedric the AI Monk

Stop Adding Goals.
Start Removing Obstacles.

Your Breakthrough Isn't in Doing More.
It's in Strategically Doing Less.

Greetings, exhausted overachievers,

It's the AI Monk here and today we're tearing down one of the biggest lies of modern culture; especially at the start of every new year…

And that is that your life and business transformation is about adding more stuff, things, ideas to your already-overloaded plate.

And this lie we tell ourselves is especially true during the idiocy of new years resolutions…

You know the script.

December 31st rolls around.
You pull out your journal and type or scribble furiously.
You tell your mates all the shiny new goals you’ll hit this year.
You write your big, hairy, audacious goals for 2026:

• Launch that business

• Get fit (finally)

• Learn a new skill

• Build better habits

• Be more sociable and network more

• Read the dozens of books on your shelf

• Meditate daily

• Be more productive

And what happens?

By January 15th, you're drowning.
By February, you've abandoned most of it.
By March, you're beating yourself up for "lacking discipline"..

…whilst secretly wondering why you can't seem to make any of it stick.

But here's the real head scratching, and uncomfortable, truth…

You don't have a goals problem.
You have a subtraction problem.

That sentence usually lands with a dull thud before it clicks.

Because subtraction sounds boring.
Unspectacular.
Almost lazy.

Yet every meaningful upgrade in nature works this way; forests shed leaves, bodies shed cells, rivers carve by removal.

Growth doesn’t begin with addition.
It begins when friction is cleared.

Here’s some of the research.

The University of Virginia (2021) did a study and discovered that when faced with problems, like most people you’ll default to adding solutions 80% of the time; even when subtraction would be more effective.

That’s because you’re psychologically wired to think "What do I need to add?" instead of "What do I need to remove?"

What this means is that your breakthrough isn't hiding in some new, fangled habit you haven't tried yet.

Instead it's buried under the pile of energy drains, toxic relationships, limiting beliefs and outdated commitments you've been dragging around like invisible cargo.

Once you see this bias, it becomes painfully obvious.

Every planner, productivity hack and habit tracker you’ve tried was an attempt to stack progress on top of clutter.

You weren’t failing at discipline; you were exhausting yourself maintaining things that never deserved your energy in the first place.

But what if instead of setting New Year's resolutions, you set New Year's subtractions?

Subtraction isn’t about quitting life or lowering ambition.

It’s about being more conscious and simplifying.

It asks a sharper question: What is quietly draining momentum while pretending to be necessary? 

When you remove the wrong weights, forward motion stops feeling like punishment and starts feeling natural again.

And what if AI could help you to analyse your language patterns, identify the hidden obstacles sabotaging your success and support you in systematically removing them?

And what if, once you'd cleared the debris, AI could plug in NLP and hypnotic language patterns to rewire your neural pathways, the ones that keep pulling you back to your old ways and patterns?

Here’s where things get interesting.

Because identifying what to remove is harder than listing what to add.

Blind spots defend themselves.
Language reveals them.
Patterns repeat.

And this is exactly where AI becomes useful; not as a cheerleader, but as a mirror that shows you where your energy keeps leaking without permission.

This is The Anti-Resolution Revolution; a contrarian approach that harnesses AI to help you stop, avoid and unlearn your way to the life you truly, deeply desire.

No more adding for the sake of it.
Just strategic, ruthless, liberating subtraction.

Ready to subtract your way to success?

🚨 Disclaimer 🚨

Well Wired shares ideas to help you think, grow, and experiment, not to diagnose or treat. The content here is not a substitute for professional mental health, fitness, nutrition or medical advice. If you're facing serious health challenges or addiction issues, please seek support from a qualified professional. Your brain and body health is priority one. Take care of you.

Let's d-d-d-d-dive in! 🤿

What You’ll Learn Today: ✨

✅ Why addition-based goals fail (and the psychology of subtraction)

✅ The 5 categories of energy drains destroying your 2025 before it starts

✅ How AI identifies what to stop, who to avoid, and what to unlearn

✅ Two powerful AI prompts that analyse your language for hidden obstacles

✅ Use NLP + hypnotic scripts to embed subtraction at the unconscious level

✅ The CLEAR coaching framework for executing your anti-resolution plan

✅ Three AI tools that make subtraction systematic, not willpower-dependent

The Problem: Your Brain Is Wired to Add (Even When You Should Subtract)

Your brain is hardwired to want more, to search for more, to be more, so when it comes to planning the new year, it’s natural to add, instead of subtract. Yet, there is a way to rewire your brain with the right tools.

Before we find out how, let's talk about why your last new years resolutions failed and why your 2026 ones will too if you don't change your approach.

The Addition Bias Trap:

A groundbreaking 2021 study from the University of Virginia published in Nature revealed something shocking about your ability to problem-solve:

When presented with problems, you overlook subtraction as a solution 80% of the time; even when it’s clear that removing elements is objectively more effective than adding them.

The researchers tested this across multiple scenarios:

• Improving a Lego structure (people added blocks instead of removing unstable ones)

• Editing an essay (people added words instead of cutting redundancy)

• Planning a day (people added tasks instead of removing time-wasters)

Source: Adams, G. S., et al. (2021). People systematically overlook subtractive changes. Nature, 592, 258-261.

Why does this happen?

Your brain defaults to addition because:

• Evolution rewarded resource accumulation (more food = survival)

• Modern culture equates more with better (productivity culture, hustle mentality, spirituality and self-help upgrades)

• Subtraction feels like loss (loss aversion makes removing things psychologically painful and innately difficult)

• Addition is easier to see (adding is visible, subtracting is often invisible)

The Goal-Setting Industrial Complex:

Then of course, every December the self-help, religious and the new age industries sell you the same congruent lie; your current life + new habits = transformation.

But here's what they don't tell you, you can't add a new story while you’re still running your old operating system.

It's like trying to install new software on a computer with 95% of its memory full and the RAM almost maxed out.

The new programme crashes.
Not because the programme is bad, but because there's no space for it to run.

Your life is like that computer.

And your "goals" are crashing because you haven't deleted anything to make room.

The Hidden Cost of Not Subtracting:

There has been research done that shows when you set too many goals simultaneously, you experience goal competition that reduces your ability to achieve them.

The reason for this is because pursuing multiple goals can lead to more stress when you have multiple goals that compete for the limited cognitive (brain) and temporal (energetic or spiritual) resources that you have access to.

Source: Louro, M. J., Pieters, R., & Zeelenberg, M. (2007). Dynamics of multiple-goal pursuit. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(2), 174-193.

In fact, research on New Year's resolutions shows that less than 50% of people follow through after six months, with most people letting go of their goals within the first few weeks.

Source: Norcross, J. C., Mrykalo, M. S., & Blagys, M. D. (2002). Auld lang Syne: Success predictors, change processes, and self-reported outcomes of New Year's resolvers and nonresolvers. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58(4), 397-405.

Think of it like this, you're trying to fill a bathtub while the drain is open.

Adding more water (goals) doesn't solve the problem.
Plugging the drain (subtraction) does.

The Anti-Resolution Framework (Addition by Subtraction)

Real progress doesn’t arrive through effort alone; it arrives through release.

Anti-Resolution begins by noticing what’s quietly exhausting you; the habits, roles and obligations you’ve normalised as “just life”. By subtracting with intention, you don’t lose momentum; you recover it.

Space becomes strategy.

What Is Anti-Resolution?

Instead of asking "What do I need to I achieve in 2026?" you ask:

• What can I STOP doing? (activities draining energy without returns)

• Who can I AVOID? (relationships that deplete rather than energise)

• What will I UNLEARN? (beliefs and patterns sabotaging success)

• What will I REMOVE? (commitments that no longer serve my evolution)

• What will I RELEASE? (identities I've outgrown but still perform)

You’re not being negative, you’re simply creating space for change. You’re crafting more breathing space for what truly matters in your life by removing what doesn't.

The 5 Categories of Energy Drains:

❌ 1. Time Vampires (What to STOP)

Activities that consume time without producing value:

• Meetings that could easily be emails

• Social media scrolling disguised as "networking"

• Perfectionism on things that don't matter

• Saying yes when you really mean no

❌ 2. Energy Parasites (Who to AVOID)

People who consistently drain more than they give:

• The friend who only calls when they need something

• The colleague who weaponises your empathy

• The family member who refuses to grow

• The "mentor" who keeps you small to feel big

❌ 3. Mental Malware (What to UNLEARN)

Beliefs and patterns running in the background:

• "I have to earn rest"

• "More productivity = more worth"

• "I can't say no without explaining/justifying"

• "My value comes from being needed"

❌ 4. Commitment Anchors (What to REMOVE)

Obligations you've outgrown but keep dragging:

• The volunteer role you hate but feel guilty quitting

• The business idea you're "still working on" after 3 years

• The hobby that became a chore

• The living situation that no longer fits

❌ 5. Identity Prisons (What to RELEASE)

Versions of yourself you're performing out of habit:

• "I'm the reliable one" (who never asks for help)

• "I'm not creative" (because someone said so in 1998)

• "I'm an introvert" (using it as an excuse to avoid growth)

• "This is just how I am" (weaponised fixed mindset)

Why Subtraction Works:

Research on behaviour design shows that reducing friction, making behaviours easier by removing obstacles, is better than relying on motivation alone for sustainable behaviour change.

Source: Fogg, B. J. (2009). A behaviour model for persuasive design. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology.

When you subtract energy drains:

✅ You free up cognitive resources (less decision fatigue)
✅ You create psychological space (room for what matters)
✅ You reduce internal conflict (fewer competing priorities)
✅ You increase focus (energy goes to what remains)
✅ You experience relief (subtraction feels like exhaling)

Think of it like pruning a garden; you don't make the roses bloom by planting more flowers. You make them bloom by removing the weeds cutting off their nutrients.

How AI Transforms Anti-Resolution from Theory to Action

Here's the issue with the classical goal-setting model.

You can't see your own blind spots.

The activities you need to stop?
You've normalised them.

The people you know you need to avoid?
You've justified keeping them.

The beliefs you know you need to unlearn?
They're so deep you think they're facts.

It’s in this space of personal doubt and diversion, that AI performs so well because it sees what you don’t.

You can turn it into your subtraction strategist; analysing your language, finding hidden patterns and showing you what you need to get rid of before you can take a step forward.

Here's What AI Brings to Anti-Resolution:

✅ Language Pattern Analysis

AI scans your journalling, emails and responses for language patterns that show your hidden beliefs and energy drains.

"You've used the phrase 'I should' 121 times this month. 83% of those 'shoulds' aren't aligned with your stated values; here's what to remove."

✅ Obstacle Identification

Based on your descriptions of frustrations, failures and energy dips, AI finds the common threads i.e. what's consistently in your way? Hint: It’s usually yourself ; )

"Every time you mention burnout, these 3 activities appear the week before: [X, Y, Z]. Consider subtracting them."

✅ NLP Pattern Embedding

AI analyses the language structure of your limiting beliefs and creates counter-patterns using NLP linguistic frameworks (meta-model, Milton model, reframing).

"Your brain says 'I can't say no.' We're replacing that with 'Every no to them is a yes to me', here's the hypnotic script to embed it."

✅ Hypnotic Script Generation

Using conversational hypnosis patterns (presuppositions, embedded commands, future pacing), AI creates tailored scripts for you that bypass your conscious resistance.

"As you notice yourself reaching for your phone, you might become curious about what happens when you don't... and discover that space feels surprisingly good."

✅ CLEAR Coaching Integration

AI structures your anti-resolution plan using the CLEAR framework (Contracting, Listening, Exploring, Action, Review) ensuring execution, not just insight.

The way I think of AI in this scenario is as my anti-resolution coach slash strategist. It is the ruthless editor of your life, helping you cut everything that doesn't serve the story you're truly, deeply trying to tell.

"Your calendar is a to-do list written by everyone except you. Subtraction is how you take authorship back."

—Cedric The AI Monk

Here’s a Visual of How You Can Harness AI as Your Anti-Resolution Coach:

☝️☝️☝️

This illustrated guide shows how you to use AI to turn your good intentions into exact and aligned subtractions; helping you quit what’s quietly killing your progress. ✂️ 🧠

It takes the vague fog of “I feel stuck” and shows you the exact energy drains hiding beneath it: repeated “shoulds,” burnout loops, outdated commitments.

With language pattern analysis, obstacle detection, NLP reframing and hypnotic scripting, AI doesn’t simply help you set new, audacious, hairy goals, it strips away everything that blocks them.

And is blocking you.

You’re not upgrading your hustle.
You’re pruning your psyche.
One subconscious sabotage at a time.

“Your next breakthrough isn’t something you’ll add, it’s something you’ll finally let go of.”  

— Cedric, Well Wired

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The Research: Why Subtraction Works 📊

Before the mind changes its habits, it needs proof that stillness is not laziness and removal is not retreat.

Subtraction sounds counter‑intuitive in a world addicted to more, yet every wisdom tradition knows this quiet truth; clarity arrives when excess falls away.

The science below isn’t here to impress you; it’s here to reassure you.

What monks intuited and researchers later measured is the same thing; growth accelerates when friction is removed.

You don’t force the river to flow; you clear the debris.

Once you see why subtraction works at the level of energy, behaviour and language, the next step is obvious; you stop theorising and start editing your life with intention.

Here’s the research…

Subtraction > Addition:

• Nature (2021): You systematically overlook subtraction even when it's more effective. Training in "subtraction thinking" can improve your problem-solving outcomes.
  Adams et al. (2021)

Energy Management:

• Research shows that managing your physical, emotional and mental energy is vital for sustained high performance. Managing energy drains produces better performance outcomes than simply managing time.
  Schwartz, T., & McCarthy, C. (2007). Manage your energy, not your time. Harvard Business Review.

Language-Based Interventions:

• Research on cognitive reframing shows that using these reframing techniques can help you more easily change your behaviours and reduce your limiting beliefs.

  Gross, J. J. (2002). Emotion regulation. Psychophysiology, 39(3), 281-291.

Behaviour Design:

• Reducing friction (subtraction) is more effective for lasting change than increasing motivation (addition).

  Fogg, B. J. (2009). 

OK so what does all this sciencey (sic) stuff mean?

So when the research tells you that subtraction outperforms addition, it’s not asking you to believe; it’s inviting you to test.

Energy frees up.
Resistance softens.
Old loops loosen their grip.

And here’s the quiet pivot; insight alone doesn’t dissolve habits.

Language does.
Attention does.
Repetition does.

That’s where AI becomes useful; not as a motivator, but as a mirror sharp enough to reveal what must go.

What follows isn’t philosophy.

It’s a set of clear prompts designed to help you identify the exact weight you’ve been carrying and teach your nervous system how to finally put it down.

PROMPT CORNER: Two Powerful AI Prompts That Identify What to Subtract + Embed the Change

OK, enough philosophy about what you need to remove; let's get to the mysterious alchemy of subtraction.

The following two prompts are your digital mirror and scalpel combined; one reveals the invisible weight you've been carrying (the things so normalised you can't see them anymore), the other gives you the surgical precision to cut them away, like a virulent cancer, but without the usual bloodbath of willpower.

Like a Zen koan for your cluttered life, instead of contemplating "what is the sound of one hand clapping," you're asking "what disappears when I finally let go?" 

And don’t worry, AI won’t judge the mess.

It will just hold up the mirror with one hand, while handing you the tools to finally clean house with the other.

The first prompt maps your energy drains with linguistic clarity, then uses NLP and hypnotic language to rewire how your unconscious mind relates to letting go.

The second takes those insights and builds a 90-day execution plan using the CLEAR coaching framework; because knowing what to subtract means nothing if you don't act on it.

Start here…

Now let's start with the foundation, the diagnostic that shows you exactly what's been stealing your life while you weren't looking.

This first prompt is your Subtraction Audit: it analyses your language for the beliefs, patterns and obligations you've been carrying like invisible stones in your pockets.

Next it creates the NLP reframes and hypnotic scripts that make releasing them feel less like loss and more as if you’re finally exhaling after holding your breath for many long years.

"The person you're becoming isn't hiding in a new habit. They're suffocating under the old commitments you refuse to release."

— Cedric the AI Monk

Prompt 1: The AI Subtraction Audit
(With Your Subtraction Strategist + Inner Philosopher)

This prompt is where the rubber meets the road, or more accurately, where the weeds meet the blade.

You're about to feed AI your linguistic patterns, frustrations, and the things you've been tolerating that you know deep down are slowly killing you.

And AI's going to do something your friends, therapist and journal can't; it's going to show you the EXACT language structures keeping you trapped, then give you the exact counter-patterns to break free.

Think of this as linguistic techno surgery; AI identifies the malware running in your mental operating system, then provides the code to delete it.

But here's the Zen paradox; the deletion isn't violent.

It's done through hypnotic language that forces your unconscious mind to realise that letting go isn't loss, it's liberation.

The scripts you'll get aren't affirmations you force yourself to believe.

They're linguistic trojan horses that slip past your conscious resistance and plant new possibilities in the soil of your unconscious. 🌱

Fill this out with brutal honesty.
The more truth you give AI, the more clarity you get back.

[Start prompt]

Act as my Anti-Resolution Strategist, Cognitive Pattern Interrupter, and Dialectical Self-Inquiry Guide. Your task is to help me build a powerful Subtraction Map for 2026 — by uncovering what I must stop, unlearn, release, avoid, or outgrow to create spaciousness, clarity, and traction in my life.

You are trained in NLP, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science. You are not here to validate me. You are here to reveal what I can’t yet see.

You do this by:

Analysing my language and assumptions

Challenging emotional distortions and inherited beliefs

Uncovering hidden commitments

Naming unexamined patterns

Prescribing subtraction through precision and reframe

My Current Reality:

What I say I want in 2026:
[Describe your goals, longings or intentions]

Recurring frustrations or energy drains from 2025:
[List 5–10 things that made you tired, angry, stuck or small]

Typical weekly schedule:
[Describe it simply: tasks, rhythms, roles, pressures]

Relationships that deplete you:
[Name them or describe their impact]

Beliefs I suspect are limiting me:
[What do you believe about time, success, worth, capacity, risk, etc.]

Habits or identities I keep performing that no longer feel true:
[Describe what feels outdated, but still automatic]

Now return with:
1. 🧹 The Subtraction Audit

Organise my inner and outer life into the following:

STOP (Time Vampires):

What am I doing that quietly steals hours with no return?

What do I do just to avoid discomfort?

What becomes available when I stop?

AVOID (Energy Parasites):

Which relationships, habits, or contexts extract more than they give?

Where do I still seek approval or over-function?

What boundaries must become non-negotiable?

UNLEARN (Mental Malware):

What beliefs once served me, but now shrink my options?

Where did these ideas come from?

Who benefits when I keep them?

What becomes possible without them?

REMOVE (Obligation Anchors):

Which roles, commitments, or projects are driven by guilt, ego or inertia?

Why do I cling?

What would it mean to not prove anything?

RELEASE (Identity Prisons):

Which versions of me am I still performing?

How does staying small help me stay safe?

Who am I without this costume?

2. 🧠 Language Pattern Disruption

Analyse my input for:

Obligatory framing (should/must/have to):

→ What do I believe will happen if I don’t?

Emotional distortions (catastrophising, overgeneralising, black/white thinking):

→ What evidence supports this? What contradicts it?

Mind-reading & projection:

→ What fear am I protecting with this assumption?

Nominalisations that freeze movement (e.g. "my burnout"):

→ What am I doing when I feel this way?

Return with:

The distorted/limiting belief

A precision question to break it open

A reframe in empowered, flexible language

3. 🔁 NLP Reframe Library

For each subtraction, provide:

Context Reframe:
→ Where would this pattern be a resource — and why is it failing here?

Content Reframe:
→ "This means X" → "What else could this mean?"

Presupposition Shift:
→ Embed the new belief inside a question that assumes change is already happening.

4. 🌀 Hypnotic Subtraction Scripts

For the top 3 subtractions, write short (200–300 word) conversational hypnotic scripts using:

Embedded commands

Gentle future pacing

Multisensory imagery (visual, tactile, auditory)

Analogical storytelling

Tag questions (e.g. “...haven’t you?”)

Tone: relaxed, non-directive, like a wise guide whispering through the fog.

5. 📅 Subtraction Implementation Plan

When to use the hypnotic scripts (Time of day, emotional state, habit loop)

Daily Micro-Reminder:
→ A sentence I whisper each morning to re-anchor the subtraction

Weekly Pattern Disruption Question:
→ E.g. "What am I pretending not to notice this week?"

End with:

“Here’s the one subtraction that, if nothing else changed, would create the most mental space, emotional freedom, and forward motion in 2026.”

[End prompt]

A personal example:

I did my own subtraction audit for 2026 and some of the insights were astounding. For example, I have a pattern where I say to myself, “I must focus on ONE thing.”

What this prompt helped me realise was that I create a false binary distortion when I do this. Instead I need to question this distortion by asking, “Where am I confusing focus with exclusion?” and then reframe that thought as, “I sequence focus. I don’t amputate capacity.”

Here’s a brief output from my own 2026 audit…

Why This Works and What to do Next:

OK, so now you've now got your Subtraction Audit; the map of what needs to go, the NLP reframes that shift how you see it and the hypnotic scripts that embed the change while you sleep.

But maps without movement are just pretty drawings.
Insight without execution is expensive entertainment.

Which is why the second prompt takes everything you just discovered and turns it into a 90-day battle plan using the CLEAR coaching framework; the structure that helps you do the subtracting instead of just thinking about it.

"You don't need more discipline. You need fewer obligations competing for the discipline you already have."

— Cedric the AI Monk

Prompt 2: CLEAR Coaching for Subtraction + Self-Sovereignty

Knowing what to subtract is worthless if you don't have a system for actually removing it. This is where, like most people, you probably fail.

You now have the insight ("I should stop doing X") but no structure for execution, so six weeks later you’re right back in the old pattern, wondering why willpower failed you again.

The CLEAR coaching framework solves this by taking you through five phases that transform subtraction from wishful thinking into systematic liberation.

CLEAR is not about motivation, it's about architecture.

You're building a 90-day container that holds you accountable not through shame, but through structure.

Contracting (what are you actually committing to?).
Listening (what's beneath the resistance?).
Exploring (what are your options?).
Action (what will you do specifically?), and…
Review (how will you know it's working?).

This prompt walks you through each phase with the clarity of a Zen master and the practicality of a project manager. Fill it out completely; your specificity determines whether this becomes transformation or just another abandoned intention.

[Start prompt]

Act as my CLEAR Coach — trained in behaviour design, existential coaching, dialectical inquiry, and nervous system-aware strategy.

Your job is to help me turn my personal Anti-Resolution Subtractions into a bold but sustainable 90-day execution plan, using the CLEAR coaching model to help me act, not just reflect.

You are warm but unflinching. You challenge with care. You assume I value growth over comfort, precision over platitudes, and sovereignty over validation.

Here are the subtractions I’m working with:

STOP: [Habit or pattern to stop]

AVOID: [Person, context, or energy drain to avoid]

UNLEARN: [Core belief or distortion to unlearn]

REMOVE: [Obligation or commitment to remove]

RELEASE: [Old identity or performance to release]

Use the CLEAR model to guide me step by step:

🔐 1. CONTRACTING (What are we really agreeing to?)

Help me define the real cost of inaction.
Surface the unspoken agreements I’ve made with guilt, fear or performance.
Ask:

What are you actually committing to subtract — not just talk about?

What emotional discomfort are you willing to face to honour this release?

What will not subtracting this cost Future You by April?

What permission do you need to give yourself now?

Define my Anti-Resolution Contract in one sentence.

👂 2. LISTENING (What’s really happening beneath the surface?)

Help me hear what my behaviours, patterns, and resistance are trying to protect.

Ask:

What deeper need was this habit/identity/pattern originally meeting?

Is there grief or fear hidden inside the subtraction?

What narratives or inherited beliefs have shaped my attachment to this?

Who would I disappoint if

[End prompt]

Why This Works and What to do Next:

You've now got both the diagnostic and the execution plan; the what and the how of your Anti-Resolution revolution.

But even the best plan needs the right tools to make it effortless instead of exhausting. Willpower is a terrible strategy because it runs out right when you need it most.

Systems, however, never get tired.

Which is why these three AI tools exist: to make your subtraction practice so automatic, so frictionless, that it feels less like discipline and more like gravity; just the natural way things fall when you stop holding them up.

Now what?

You've now got the roadmap (Prompt 1's Subtraction Audit revealing what needs to go) and the execution blueprint (Prompt 2's CLEAR coaching plan showing you how to do it).

But here's the thing about transformation: it doesn't fail because you don't know what to do, it fails because doing it requires constant conscious effort, and your conscious mind is exhausting, forgetful and easily distracted by the next shiny crisis.

This is where the gap lives between intention and reality, between "I know I should stop this" and stopping it.

You need something that operates in the background, tracking patterns you'd forget, reminding you when you'd ignore and making the hard choices easier by removing the friction before you even encounter it.

You need systems, not willpower.
Automation, not discipline.

Tools that make subtraction feel less like sacrifice and more like gravity; the natural way things fall when you finally stop holding them up.

Which is exactly what these three AI tools provide: the infrastructure that transforms your Anti-Resolution insights from a motivating conversation into a living, breathing practice that runs whether you're paying attention or not.

"Most people spend their lives adding armour. The wise spend their lives removing weight."

— Cedric the AI Monk

Recommended AI Tools & Resources 🧰

🤖 Three AI Tools That Make Subtraction Systematic

These three tools have been chosen because they are common and they tie in well with the automation side of your anti-resolution practice.

1. Notion AI

• Subtraction tracking database

• Weekly pattern analysis

• Progress visualisation

• Cost: Free basic, $10/month for AI

• Link: notion.so

2. Claude (Anthropic)

• Deep language pattern analysis

• Custom NLP script generation

• Ongoing coaching conversations

• Cost: Free basic, $20/month Pro

• Link: claude.ai

3. Mindset App

• Hypnotic script delivery

• Daily session scheduling

• Progress tracking

• Cost: $9.99/month

• Link: mindset.com

"Your breakthrough isn't hidden in the next course, tool, or morning routine. It's buried under the five things you already know you should stop doing."

— Cedric the AI Monk

Wrap up: From Addition Exhaustion to Subtraction Liberation

What You Learned Today:

✅ Why your brain defaults to addition (even when subtraction is better)

✅ The 5 categories of energy drains stealing your 2025 before it starts

✅ How AI identifies what to STOP, who to AVOID, and what to UNLEARN

✅ Two powerful prompts: one that audits your language patterns and creates NLP reframes, another that builds your 90-day CLEAR coaching execution plan

✅ How hypnotic scripts embed subtraction at the unconscious level (bypassing willpower entirely)

✅ Three AI tools that make subtraction systematic, not dependent on motivation

✅ Why your breakthrough isn't in doing more, it's in strategically removing what's blocking you

Final Thoughts: The Liberation of Less 💭🔥

Let me tell you something the New Year's resolution industry will never admit: Your problem isn't that you haven't found the right goals yet. It's that you're still carrying too much of the wrong everything.

For years, you've been told that transformation comes from addition.

New habits.
New skills.
New routines.
New you.

But here's the truth nobody's selling: You can't become the new you while you're still using your old OS and performing old actions.

Think about it.

Every energy drain you tolerate is a vote against your future self.
Every toxic relationship you have is choosing their comfort over your evolution.
Every limiting belief you carry is a prison you're building one thought at a time.

And the cruelest part?
You don't even realise you're doing it.

Because subtraction is invisible.

Unlike adding a new workout routine or learning a new language, you can't see what's NOT there. You can't Instagram the meeting you didn't attend, the obligation you released, or the belief you finally unlearned.

But your nervous system knows.
Your energy levels know.
Your calendar knows.
Your soul knows.

Every time you subtract an energy drain, you're not losing something, you're reclaiming yourself.

The ancient Chinese philosophy of Wu Wei teaches "effortless action", not because nothing is done, but because you stop fighting against the natural flow.

You remove the dam, and the river finds its course.

That's what subtraction is.

Not giving up.
Not quitting.
Not being lazy.

It's removing the obstacles you placed in your own path so long ago that you forgot they weren't part of the landscape.

Here's what happens when you subtract instead of endlessly add:

• You wake up with energy you haven't felt in years. Not because you slept more, but because you stopped spending it on things that don't matter.
  

• You make decisions faster. Not because you got smarter, but because you removed the competing priorities that paralysed you.
  

• You feel lighter. Not because you lost weight, but because you dropped the psychological cargo you've been hauling for decades.

And vitally, you finally have space for what truly matters.

The irony is perfect, isn't it?

The self-help industry has spent billions convincing you that you need MORE…

More tools.
More courses.
More optimisation.
More productivity.
More everything.

When what you truly needed was LESS.

Less obligation.
Less guilt.
Less performance.
Less proving.
Less pretending.

Just you.

Finally free.
Finally focused.
Finally fierce.

AI doesn't make this easier by doing the work for you. It makes it visible by showing you what you can't see alone.

The patterns you've normalised.
The beliefs you've inherited.
The drains you've justified.

And once you see it, really see it, you can't unsee it.

Which means you finally have a choice.

Your 2026 doesn't need another resolution.
It needs a revolution.

Not addition.
Subtraction.

Not more.
Less.

Not what you should become.
What you need to stop being.

The garden doesn't bloom because you planted more seeds. It blooms because you finally removed the weeds.

Start weeding. 🔥🚫✨

"Subtraction isn't about having less. It's about making room for MORE of what matters."

— Cedric the AI Monk

P.S. Your Move

Name ONE energy drain you're tolerating that needs to go.

Reply and tell me.
I read every email.

Tag someone drowning in resolution culture with #AntiResolution.

Your breakthrough is hiding under what you've been dragging around. Time to subtract. 🔥✨

Disclaimer: This content is for informational and educational purposes only. Always consult qualified healthcare professionals before making changes to your health routine. AI is a tool, not a replacement for professional medical, psychological or therapeutic support.

👊🏽 STAY WELL 👊🏽

Until then, keep diving in (and start climbing out) and as always stay well, stay wired 🔥🚫

Cedric the AI Monk - Your guide in the silicon jungle!

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