Updated , Published at 10:24 AM PHT,
by
Dennis Cabrera
Use Human-Centered Strategies & AI to Boost Your Value
No doubt we have to earn more at this time
A true story right after the Asian crisis:
I learned the importance of having a proactive mindset while collecting an account receivable from a client in . What the employee said was an eye-opener of the situation, for it was the time of the Asian Financial Crisis.
Walang pambayad ang mga empleyado kapag July, kasi kaka-tuition lang para sa mga estudyante, at ang bonus ay sa Pasko pa. (Translation: "July for employees is considered a 'dry month', because our salaries were paid for the tuition of our children, and the Christmas bonus is still in December.")
In , as economic and environmental shifts challenge Filipino households, a proactive mindset that leverages technology and AI is crucial for generating multiple income streams (through polywork/MSME startup) to prevent the scenario described above. Lessons from the Asian crisis of , and past 'financially dry months' (beginning July with the typhoon season) highlight the enduring importance of preparedness and adaptability [1][2].
Earning with human-centered strategies and AI
There is a temptation to add more part-time jobs and work harder, but the smartest path in the AI era isn't about doing more, and working double-time — it’s about doing it with:
- purpose,
- balance,
- intelligence,
- and leverage.
Filipinos are known for their resilience - a human skill recognized in AI industry circles as irreplaceable. So, add
- resilience to a purpose-driven attitude,
- with love for God, family, and self to balance,
- and applying AI with intelligence to leverage,
and more Philippine MSMEs and professional polyworkers can earn to contribute to the nation's goal to achieve upper middle-income target before the end of the decade. This is also part of the "#TrainingForNationBuilding" by the the Philippine Trade Training Center - Global MSME Academy (PTTC-GMEA) [3][4].
Human skills, Energy management, Polywork, & AI
This blog post introduces a human-centered framework combining:
- Irreplaceable human skills [5]
- Energy management (based on a study by Loehr & Schwartz) [6]
- Polyworking [7]
- and AI as your leverage and amplifier, not replacement [8]
Irreplaceable human skills for the AI Era [9]
Besides resilience, 7 high-impact skills are still hard to automate. Skills such as:
- empathy,
- strategic decision-making,
- adaptability,
- trust-building
- emotional intelligence
- ethical judgment
- brand storytelling
What are skills for AI Interpretation & Contextualization?
What is strategic decision-making?
What is adaptability?
What is ethical judgment?
What is emotional intelligence?
What are skills for Collaborative and Entrepreneurial Roles?
What is empathy?
What is trust-building?
What is brand storytelling?
How does Energy Management fit in? (Loehr & Schwartz Study)
Energy management has an advantage over time management. Time is finite and is gone when spent. But human energy is renewable when managed well. With a human-centered skills strategy, you can manage your energy well and function to perform at your best when it is needed. It involves learning to alternate between stress (effort) and recovery (rest) - an oscillation concept developed by Loehr & Schwartz. When you manage stress and recovery well, you can use your peak hours for high-value tasks. And high-value tasks are the ones that bring in the more valuable income streams [10].
How can you apply energy management in your daily work?
1 Structure your day more around energy levels, and adjust it to schedules and due dates
2 Use rest and recovery to fuel creativity and problem-solving; solutions are sometimes like "light bulbs that flash in the imagination" during a period of rest
3 Actively seek to minimize emotional and cognitive cost by aligning tasks according to present energy levels
4 Practice mindfulness during work hours to monitor energy levels
5 Increase self-awareness at the end of the workday to evaluate your energy management experiences
Result: You get more done with more reserves of physical energy, positive emotional energy, and focused cognitive energy. You also generate an energetic spiritual force from activities that align with your values to balance your work and life. And once you have mastered the smart energy management needed by your work, then you can integrate that energy reserves over an effective time management system: a time management matrix quadrant which classifies modern personal and professional tasks in four quadrants of low, high, important, and urgent.
How does Polywork fit in
Polywork, or work that engages multiple overlapping roles or income streams from flexible project-based work, is rising due to economic necessity. It enables individuals to earn more income from the application of their professional skills across industries and clients. This multiwork model allows for the creation of complementary roles that mitigate income risk, build resilience, and expand professional exposure to better-paying opportunities [11].
How can you leverage AI in Polywork?
You can speed up delivering your professional or business services in writing, coding, or research with ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity
You can explore AI responses from Copilot and Gemini and discover a diverse selection of job-related fields without deep expertise to add to your present work
You can research and discover suggestions from AI searches on how to manage energy, given the roles you have and will add to your professional life in Polywork.
You can apply more automated tasks and prevent burnout by searching and employing new AI tools (such as agentic AI systems) to any work routine work
Human skills, energy management, polyworking, & AI in combo
When human skill is combined with smart energy management in polywork that leverages AI capabilities, you:
- Add valuable roles that produce income streams
- Protect your health and build necessary reserves of energy
- and you future-proof your career with financial resilience to set up a contingency fund [12]
Link all together to boost your value & add income streams
- Human insight + AI drafting = high-value multimodal content
- Human direction + AI analysis = smarter ethical decisions on accurate data
- Human relationship + AI support = higher team trust and faster CRM delivery
Harness the power of human skills, smart energy management, and AI-driven polywork to significantly boost your value and add income streams. This strategic approach empowers you to gain valuable roles, protect your well-being, build energy reserves, and responsibly future-proof your career in the evolving AI ecosystem.
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