How I Clear My Head When I Feel Overwhelmed – Mental Clutter

Picture this, it’s Monday morning, and you start listing everything you need to do in your head AKA mental clutter. It might be dealing with multiple tasks, deadlines, and people, and you start feeling like you are a running chicken with its head cut off. Sounds familiar, right? No matter the business, a simple brain dump is your secret tool for staying productive, organized, and focused so you can accomplish your projects and tasks.

What is mental clutter?

Mental clutter can set you back days, months, and years. And when you have 30 things in your head, the hardest part is deciding what’s the first thing to do. So what you really need is to write things down. This can be on a simple notebook, Goodnotes app, reminder apps, Google sheets, or Milanote app (whatever you like). But you really need to write things down so you can clear mental clutter, capture ideas, and boost productivity.

What’s the process?

The first thing you are going to do is a braindump and set a time for 5-10 minutes and let everything out. Then you are going to sort every item you wrote down into high priorities, low priorities, or assign. Sorting is going to be important so that you know your priorities and what items to do next and in what order. Naturally, you are going to have a plan so that you know what tasks need to be done next and which ones you need to assign to others. Once you have everything in order, you can add due dates. Let me show you how I do this in the Reminders app. Please see the video below. P.S. I sometimes do this in a notebook if my phone is dying, but this is a good example of how to braindump, sort, and add dates so you can have an action plan.

REMEMBER: Braindump ➡️ Sort ➡️ Action Plan