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🥯 Today on Bagel Bots

  • 💰️ Monetization Insight: Track Sleep. Boost Performance. Win More.

  • 🔧 Workflow Builder: Sell Workspace Templates to Busy Professionals

  • 💡 Today’s Prompt: Use AI to Design Your Mental Reset

  • 📰 One Big Story: China’s AI Surge Signals Global Power Shift

  • 🤖 Cool Tech: AI + Nanotech = The Future of Medicine

  • 🌎️ AI Market Pulse: AI Turns Small Teams Into Giants

  • 🖼️ Which Image Is Real? AI or not? Take your best guess.

💰️ Monetization Insight of the Day
 How Sleep Tracking Transformed My Performance

I used to fly by the seat of my pants when it came to sleep—until I realized how dramatically it was impacting my performance. Now I use my Oura ring to track sleep quality, recovery scores, and HRV, then feed this data into ChatGPT every morning for analysis and optimization recommendations.

The transformation has been remarkable: better focus at work, improved workouts, more quality time with my girlfriend, and dramatically better business interactions. I had no idea how poor my sleep was until I started tracking it. Now Lindy automates sleep optimization reminders and Reclaim.ai protects my sleep schedule by blocking late calendar events. I'm operating from consistent, high-quality rest instead of running on empty and hoping for the best.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

  • Data reveals hidden performance drains: Sleep tracking exposes how poor recovery undermines business performance

  • AI analysis drives optimization: Raw sleep data becomes actionable insights when AI identifies improvement patterns

  • Personal performance amplifies professional results: Optimizing sleep creates compound benefits across all business interactions

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🔧 Workflow Builder
How to Create $97 Notion Templates Busy Professionals Actually Buy

Goal: Create and sell Notion workspace templates for specific industries, generating $1,500-$4,000/month in passive income.

Steps:

  1. Identify Your Template Niche Use ChatGPT with this RTCE prompt: "Role: Productivity consultant. Task: Identify 10 niches that need organized workspaces and would pay $47-97 for Notion templates. Context: Target busy professionals who need complete business systems. Examples: Content creators, consultants, real estate agents, coaches, freelancers." Choose 2-3 highest-paying niches.

  2. Research Template Requirements Use Grok deep search: "Role: Productivity research analyst. Task: Research top 10-15 organizational pain points facing [your niche] professionals. Context: Need workspace systems for valuable Notion templates. Examples: Client management, project tracking, content planning, financial organization." Validate through LinkedIn communities.

  3. Design Template Architecture Use ChatGPT to create workspace structures: databases, automation formulas, interconnected systems. Plan dashboards, project trackers, client databases, content calendars solving niche pain points.

  4. Build Professional Templates Create templates in Notion with clean design and smart database relationships. Include setup instructions, video walkthroughs, customization guides. Test thoroughly across different business sizes.

  5. Create Product Packages Use Quillbot to optimize product descriptions highlighting benefits and time savings. Package with bonus materials: tutorials, checklists, email support. Price at $47-97 based on value.

  6. Set Up Digital Marketplace List on Gumroad and Notion marketplaces with professional screenshots, demo videos, value propositions. Create preview galleries showing before/after improvements.

  7. Launch Marketing Campaign Use Brevo to build email lists through free mini-templates. Create content around organization challenges, promote solutions on LinkedIn, Twitter, professional communities.

  8. Scale Product Line Monitor performance, gather feedback, improve designs. Create variations, advanced versions, complementary templates. Build bundles and offer customization services.

Estimated Time: 12-15 hours per template, 3-5 hours monthly marketing

Revenue Potential: $1,500-$4,000/month with 8-15 templates selling 5-15 copies monthly

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💡 Today’s Prompt
Build a Daily Mindset Routine with AI

This prompt helps you build a realistic, low-maintenance daily mindset routine that actually sticks—combining meditation, gratitude, and journaling into a habit tailored to your schedule, goals, and style. It works because most people fail with routines that are too rigid or unclear. By using AI to generate a fully personalized plan—including specific time blocks, writing prompts, and weekly reflections—you get a system that fits your lifestyle and builds lasting consistency. Perfect for solopreneurs and creators who want more clarity and calm without adding complexity.

👉 Use the prompt + check out my example output here


Clear Ask:
You’re a personal development coach. Design me a daily meditation, gratitude, and journaling routine I’ll actually stick to.

Context & Purpose:
I want a realistic, repeatable habit that boosts mental clarity, reduces stress, and helps me feel grounded. It should fit into my lifestyle, take minimal time, and combine mindfulness with intentional reflection.

Inputs You Provide:
• Time available daily (e.g. 10 min AM, 5 min PM)
• Main goal (e.g. focus, gratitude, stress relief)
• Tone preference (e.g. calm, science-backed, motivational)
• Format (e.g. apps, pen & paper, guided audio)
• Past struggles (e.g. skipping, not knowing what to write)

Instructions for ChatGPT:
• Break down a simple daily routine with time blocks
• Include sample prompts for journaling + gratitude
• Recommend tools/apps if helpful (Calm, Stoic, etc.)
• Add one weekly reflection habit to track progress
• Keep it flexible, encouraging, and easy to implement
• Format with bold headers and bullet points

Perfect Output:
A realistic, no-excuses daily practice that builds mental clarity, consistency, and self-awareness—starting tomorrow.

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📰 One Big Story
100 New DeepSeeks: Beijing’s Power Play

China isn’t just accelerating its AI development—it’s signaling that it wants to lead the next era of global tech dominance. Former PBOC Deputy Governor Zhu Min just announced China is prepping over 100 DeepSeek-style breakthroughs in the next 18 months. For context, DeepSeek is a powerful, cost-efficient LLM that’s been boosting Chinese tech stocks since launch—and now it’s just the beginning.

This isn’t about building better AI tools. It’s about building leverage. These next-gen models are being deployed across defense, industrial automation, surveillance, and finance—laying the groundwork for China to digitally weaponize scale. Bloomberg projects high-tech’s share of China’s GDP could jump from 15% to 18% in just two years. And the market’s already responding: Hang Seng is up 25% YTD, while the S&P is treading water.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

  • China plans to launch 100+ DeepSeek-level AI models by 2026

  • These systems will transform everything from military ops to financial infrastructure

  • The AI race is now the front line of global economic warfare

My Take:
This isn’t just an AI boom—it’s a strategic shift in global power. Whoever builds and deploys faster wins. The future will be dominated by nations and companies who can turn AI into compounding leverage.

🤖 Cool Tech
The Cancer-Fighting Nanobot Has Arrived

Korea’s KRISS team just pulled off something remarkable: a gold-and-iron nanodisk that can diagnose cancer, treat it precisely, and activate the immune system to prevent recurrence—all in one engineered material. It uses magnetic guidance to reach the tumor, laser-triggered imaging to pinpoint delivery, and multi-layered therapy to wipe it out.

This isn’t just nanotech—it’s a robotic system at the cellular level. Designed to detect, act, and respond, this tiny platform functions like an autonomous agent inside the body. It knows where to go. It knows what to do when it gets there. And it communicates results in real time. That’s not biotech. That’s robotics.

And here’s the AI angle: this kind of platform only works at scale when paired with intelligent systems. From identifying patient-specific biomarkers to precisely timing the laser activation window, AI will be essential for deploying this tech in real-world clinical settings. Automation and decision-making at this level? That’s the future of medicine.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

  • Programmable nanomedicine: One disk handles diagnosis, treatment, and immune reprogramming

  • Built-in robotics: Magnetic steering, autonomous targeting, and real-time response

  • AI-powered application: AI will be key in personalizing treatment and optimizing outcomes at scale

🌎️ AI Market Pulse
AI for Startups: How AI is Shaping Speed, Workflow, and Future Use

Startups are leveraging AI to move faster and scale bigger across every business stage. AI-powered tools like ChatGPT and Claude provide detailed customer profiles and competitor analysis in seconds instead of weeks, while platforms like Figma AI and Uizard enable solo founders to create full product prototypes without hiring teams. One EdTech startup used AI insights to restructure their course and achieve a 30% completion rate increase. AI chatbots handle customer support 24/7, and tools like Beautiful.ai create investor-ready pitch decks in minutes.

Why this matters for your income: Startups prove AI isn't experimental—it's essential infrastructure for competitive business building. Every advantage startups gain from AI-powered research, prototyping, and automation represents opportunities for entrepreneurs to offer these same capabilities as services to traditional companies needing help implementing competitive AI advantages.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

  • Small teams perform like large companies: AI tools multiply productivity without massive infrastructure investment

  • Speed becomes competitive advantage: AI compresses business timelines from weeks to hours

  • Implementation expertise in high demand: Companies need help adopting startup-proven AI advantages

🤔 Which image is real?

One of these images is real, and one was created with AI. Vote for which one you think is real, and tell us why you voted that way. My only goal is to choose such good photos that the majority of votes are wrong.

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