You Gotta Get It Off Your Mind – Part 1

Write It Down Right Now

What is the most important skill in business today? The ability to rapidly get things off your mind and into a system you can trust.

Why? Because the amount of information you have to deal with is so overwhelming. You have to develop this skill. Otherwise you condemn yourself to a life of continual near burnout or worse.

Can you remember a time when you were really stressed and you finally took time to make a list? Remember the feeling of relief when you finished the list? You need to do that all the time.

The average person carries about half of their to-dos around in their head. That means that they have about 100 to-dos in their head at any given time. Wow! Each one of those adds stress. Each one of those decreases your ability to focus on the task at hand.

So what can you do? Right now, take out a legal pad and start writing. Get everything out of your head. Each time you change subject, start a new page. If you don’t finish in one sitting, keep revisiting this until you are done.

Did you feel the stress melting away? Your brain was never designed to carry all that weight. You need to put your brain on a diet so that you can have those breakthrough ideas the world is waiting for.

Coming up: You Gotta Get It Off Your Mind – Part 2 – Never Lose A Thought Again

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