So how would you feel about doubling your brain power?
Just like that. In an instant, absolutely double your brain
power?
Well, that's impossible anyone trying to sell you that is
probably selling some nootropic, or some Elon Musk type device
that inserts in your spine microchips might be involved,
I'm not going to recommend that today, we're going to look at an
all natural version of this takes a little bit more work as
natural things tend to but in the end, I really do think
you're going to feel like you've doubled your brain power. Now
have you had the experience before with an older computer,
when you start to have a lot of programs running in the
background when things start to really slow down. And it's
confusing, because you think, wait, this is the same computer
that worked really fast a year or two ago. And I'm using the
same applications I used to use. And granted, maybe websites need
a little bit more processing power now and things like that.
But this doesn't really make sense. And usually what you
figure out is, there's a lot of things running in the
background, and you've been running out of hard drive space.
So you have way too much going on in the background. And so
trying to run things on the surface, like the main program
you're focused on becomes harder and harder. And this is exactly
what so many of us do. And I'm not just talking about ENFPs
and INFPs in this video. This is something that almost everybody
does. We have this huge list build up of to do items, and we
leave them running in the back of our mind all the time, I'm
sure right now, if you were to just stop and think for a
second, and no longer than a second, I don't want to
traumatize you, you could come up with a few things that have
been nagging you that you've been meaning to do and haven't
yet done and they bug you you probably think about them more
than you'd like to admit or even more than you're aware of. In
fact, a few things I've read have made me think that a lot of
these nagging things running in the back of our mind, we
actually end up thinking about 100s or 1000s of times
before we actually take any action. And I think it's a
pretty fair comparison that our minds are like computers. And if
you have things running in the background, taking up half of
your processing power at all times thinking, I need to do
that report, oh, I need to send that email, oh, I need to
respond to this. And that, that ultimately, the main thing
you're trying to work on whether it's write a book or build your
business, or having great meeting or coaching session with
someone is not going to go nearly as well as it would if
you were able to give that 100% of your attention. And yes, you
can use techniques to really get in the moment and be present.
And it's really good to have that ability to just block out
distractions and just be present and do what you need to get
done. But when you're done that you still go back to that
nagging feeling of Yes, I have to get that other stuff done.
And that isn't the best feeling. So here's what we're going to do
to solve that. And this is something I have done myself.
And I can tell you, it works like an absolute charm. You're
going to get out a pen and a pad of paper, not a list on your
computer or your phone, you're going to need real paper for
this. And then what you're going to do is write down every single
nagging thing in your mind every nagging email that pops into
your head reminding you that you need to respond to it, every form
or admin tasks that you've been meaning to submit or to do.
every conversation that you've been wanting to have maybe
something you've been wanting to clear up with people, you might
have some items that you've been meaning to donate or throw out
that have been piling up. Maybe you have some laptop or phone
that has a broken screen or something and you've been
keeping it in purgatory not really sure if you should just
throw it out or donate it. By the way, donate or recycle,
don't ever throw it electronic is really bad for the
environment. So whether you should recycle it or whether you
should get it fixed and use it all these things that are in the
back of your mind and spend some time with us first, sit down and
spend 10, 20, 30 minutes, get out everything and then leave space
to keep adding to this because things will pop up into your
mind. And in this first step, the goal is to get everything
out of your head. Now this does not include aspirational goals
like I've been meaning to climb Mount Everest, or I'd like to
move to Paris and write my best selling novel, those things will
put somewhere else another time. These are the nagging things
that are in the back of your mind. So when you complete step
one, you're going to find some initial relief because one of
the reasons your brain keeps bringing these up is to remind
you because you've told your unconscious that these things
are important enough that you want to do them one day, but you
maybe haven't written them somewhere or filed them. So your
mind keeps bringing them up. But it'll be like Tuesday afternoon
and you'll think about Oh yeah, I should do my taxes is Tuesday
afternoon, the time to do your taxes. Probably not. But your
unconscious isn't quite that organized. It just knows it has
to remind you about these different things right? It's
running in the background. And so these things are always
coming up and you know what's worse than that you're
remembering them think about what's running in the
background, if at all these different times your unconscious
is bringing these things to the forefront and you're Thinking of
them, that means you're using even more processing power in
the background organizing these and your unconscious is
basically sorting through them all the time thinking, should I
should I remind Dan of this today? Should this come up?
Yeah, let's bring this one up. This one, let's not bring this
up. It's wasting so much brainpower doing all this,
right? So getting this all transferred to paper is going to
free you up a bunch just to start with. But of course, we're
not going to stop there. The goal is to eliminate all of
these things. And yes, that is possible. I've done this a few
times in my own life once when I actually did this exercise for
myself. And the other time was at the start of last year, right
before moving to Spain to start off a couple years of
international travel, of course, 2020 turned out not to be the
best year for travel. But as you can maybe see, it has not ended
up so bad after all. Anyhow. So this works. And I've done it, it
is possible even if you are an ENFP or INFP, you can get
through this exercise. Now when you have this list, the first
thing you want to do is what I'm going to call the easy wins
things that you can eliminate from the list. So look over the
list and look for things where you can honestly just not do
them and just say, Hey, you know what I've been thinking of doing
this for so long, you know, I've been thinking of repairing that
old stereo so then I could sell it, why don't I just go donate
it somewhere, they can repair it and sell it. Or why don't I
recycle it. Let's just get some wins quickly. So you want to go
through and basically just eliminate things. And sometimes
it seems harder than it needs to be. And I'll use the email inbox
as an example. I don't know if you've had the experience where
your inbox gets just overwhelmed and overloaded, I'm sure I'm not
the only one. Now I try to get to Inbox Zero to nothing in my
inbox, let's say once a month, and then it sort of builds back
up. Then I go through, I unsubscribe to some things. I
respond, I eliminate, and I tried to get back to zero. Now
sometimes within the inbox, I'll notice I've missed some
important emails, maybe someone contacted me about coaching, or
some kind of partnership. And it's been a week or two, or
three and I haven't responded. And that will be nagging me
because probably a week or two before I notice it and just
didn't get around to responding. So it's been in the back of my
mind has been wearing me down. I've been like, Okay, I need to
go get through my emails. And then I'll go and I'll take a
Friday evening, I'll go from like 4pm to 8pm, usually with a
bottle of wine and respond to everyone. And what I've noticed
having done this probably a dozen times is almost all of
those nagging emails like the people who were interested in
coaching, the people who wanted to do some kind of partnership
or something like that, for example, the people who were
interested in coaching, because I've taken so long to respond,
they're ultimately not interested anymore. So of
course, what I should have done is responded right away, right?
That was my mistake. But once it became a nagging item, I
realized I just be better off archiving all in my inbox and
just getting rid of the emails and saying I'm going to start
over because almost none of that ends up turning into anything
after because I waited too long. And because my inbox was
building up and up and up, there were more and more fresh emails
that I didn't get back to as quickly as I should. So had I
just went in after a week or two and just archived all, I
probably would have ended up with better results than
thinking all these things had to be done, and then going through
one by one in that way. So look at your list, see what you can
get rid of right away, then you're probably gonna want a
couple hours for this part, you want to go through the list and
go for the easy ish wins things that you can do somewhere
between two and 10 minutes, and it's just done. There's no point
having something scheduled on a to do list that only takes two
minutes, it's more effort to schedule it and think about it
than just to do it at the time, right. And then you're going to
be left with a lot shorter of a list. And usually going through
this stuff is a lot quicker than we think it is. We dread it. And
because we dread it and because we've been thinking about it so
much. This list appears like a monster Oh my god, I'm gonna
have to deal with all this stuff. This is gonna take six
months, why are you doing this to me, Dan, you're setting me on
a road to spend like the next six months of my life going on
this list is using not actually that hard. And there's not that
much to actually do once you get into what you want to do now is
consolidate that list, even leave it on the same paper.
Sometimes it's nice to look at all the items you've crossed
off. And now you have a list to work through. And what you can
do is take an afternoon each week where you've cleared up all
those background processes, and you really have your full focus
and brainpower available to you and I will say really and I do
not think this is hyperbole you are doubling your brain power.
When you do this, you will double your effectiveness, your
ability to think clearly and your ability to get things done.
Let me know in the comments if you're going to do this and when
you do this, what sort of results you get from it. If you
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