Try this for one week. Every time you do something at work, write down what it was and roughly how long it took. Do not analyse, just record.
Most people who do this get a surprise. Somewhere between three and six hours a week goes into work that has nothing to do with why you were hired. Reformatting a sheet. Rewriting a status update in three different tones for three different people. Making a deck from a document that already says everything. Answering the same customer question for the eleventh time this month.
None of it is hard. All of it is slow.
This is the honest case for AI at work, and it is much smaller and more useful than the version you see on LinkedIn. Nobody is becoming a different professional overnight. What happens is that a three hour block of routine work becomes a forty minute block, and you get your Thursday afternoon back.
Start with the single most repeated item on your list. Just one. Build a proper instruction for it, save it somewhere you can find, and use it for two weeks until it becomes automatic. Then pick the next one.
People who try to learn everything at once usually abandon it by week three. People who fix one task stick with it.
be10x workshops are structured around exactly this kind of everyday task, which is worth a look if you learn better with a guided path.
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