spring cleaning for my brain
This weekend I started what will hopefully become an organizational system to keep me from losing my mind. Step one involves getting everything out of my head. Thoughts, ideas, errands, chores, projects, hopes, dreams, desires - all out of my head and onto lists. On Sunday evening, the extracted contents of my brain looked something like this:
I am pretty sure this just scratches the surface.
Today at work I started writing down everything I request or delegate on a "waiting" list, and it filled a page (and that's only things I requested today!). I'm beginning to realize just how much shit I am carrying in my brain at any given moment and why I sometimes wake up in a state of high anxiety. It's too much to ask of a brain.
I'm working on developing a reliable external system for tracking everything. I'm training myself to write down every thing that I need to remember or track. Once it's logged into the system I can let my brain do other things, like think properly.
Today at work I started writing down everything I request or delegate on a "waiting" list, and it filled a page (and that's only things I requested today!). I'm beginning to realize just how much shit I am carrying in my brain at any given moment and why I sometimes wake up in a state of high anxiety. It's too much to ask of a brain.
I'm working on developing a reliable external system for tracking everything. I'm training myself to write down every thing that I need to remember or track. Once it's logged into the system I can let my brain do other things, like think properly.
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