Clear Your Brain
Advice on the internet is not created equally. There is sound advice, and there is crap advice, and the two exist side-by-side, forcing you to squint and decide. But this article is actually full of good advice that is straightforward to implement.
It is about clearing your brain.
Because, as she says: “You can clear your inbox… clear your schedule… clear your fridge (ew, what is that moldy science experiment anyway?). And you can clear mental space in your brain.”
When my brain feels full, it is never because it is brimming with wonderful things that I don’t want to forget. Instead, it is full of garbage that is drowning me. Knowing the thoughts are garbage thoughts that I should toss aside, I am grateful to come across advice on how to get said garbage thoughts out of my brain. At least temporarily.
And now I pass it along to you.
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I have been thinking of using the “getting things done” method or bullet journaling, which are both supposed to help with clearing mental space. I also think about just doing the (many) household projects that I have back-burnered and no longer procrastinating about certain tasks at work.
But I never get past the “thinking about it” stage for these things. I will read the article you linked; maybe it will inspire me.
Interesting. I think the “don’t check email first thing” only works for certain types of jobs, generally if you’re your own boss. I absolutely cannot do this, or only check certain times of day—I cannot close Outlook while working. Especially when WFM, but even when not.