How to stop feeling overwhelmed all the time:
Your mind is a supercomputer.
Your attention is the RAM.
Thoughts, regrets, and tasks are the programs slowing your performance.
Writing, mindfulness, and focus are the reboot you can access at any time.
Your attention is the RAM.
Thoughts, regrets, and tasks are the programs slowing your performance.
Writing, mindfulness, and focus are the reboot you can access at any time.
Most people's attention is split between:
• Thoughts about past mistakes
• An internal cry to live a better life
• A list of mixed-priority tasks that need to be finished
What you hold in your focus (your conscious attention) can make or break your energy and performance.
• Thoughts about past mistakes
• An internal cry to live a better life
• A list of mixed-priority tasks that need to be finished
What you hold in your focus (your conscious attention) can make or break your energy and performance.
Here are the 8 steps to reclaim your focus:
1) Choose A Lagging Area Of Your Life
We are as strong as our weakest link.
What's yours?
Money?
Dating?
Self-esteem?
Social life?
Health and vitality?
Choose.
1) Choose A Lagging Area Of Your Life
We are as strong as our weakest link.
What's yours?
Money?
Dating?
Self-esteem?
Social life?
Health and vitality?
Choose.
2) Gain Clarity On The Fundamentals
Fundamentals drive results.
Tactics can further results, but only once the fundamentals are mastered and habitual.
Fundamentals move levers.
Tactics present the opportunity for traps, overwhelm, and creating problems that don’t exist.
Fundamentals drive results.
Tactics can further results, but only once the fundamentals are mastered and habitual.
Fundamentals move levers.
Tactics present the opportunity for traps, overwhelm, and creating problems that don’t exist.
3) Create An Ability-Based Goal
The problem: vanity-based goals are much more out of our control than ability-based goals.
You only care about your physique, follower count, or money in the bank in relation to the external world.
The problem: vanity-based goals are much more out of our control than ability-based goals.
You only care about your physique, follower count, or money in the bank in relation to the external world.
This isn't a bad thing.
Looks, dollar amounts, and follower counts changes peoples perception of you (more opportunity).
But it's bad to make your primary focus (it's more out of your control).
Example: Focus on writing 1000 quality words instead of growing by 1000 followers.
Looks, dollar amounts, and follower counts changes peoples perception of you (more opportunity).
But it's bad to make your primary focus (it's more out of your control).
Example: Focus on writing 1000 quality words instead of growing by 1000 followers.
4) Self-Educate AFTER You Start
Too many people get trapped in “tutorial hell,” try to soak in as much information as possible, and never start.
Instead:
• Start and fail fast
• Identify what caused you to fail
• Find specific information to overcome it
Act, then ask.
Too many people get trapped in “tutorial hell,” try to soak in as much information as possible, and never start.
Instead:
• Start and fail fast
• Identify what caused you to fail
• Find specific information to overcome it
Act, then ask.
5) Block Out 30-60 Minutes A Day
Deep work doesn't only apply to business.
It applies to every single area of life that you are trying to improve.
Good luck making progress in your fitness, relationships, and happiness without dedicated time, focused effort, and total presence
Deep work doesn't only apply to business.
It applies to every single area of life that you are trying to improve.
Good luck making progress in your fitness, relationships, and happiness without dedicated time, focused effort, and total presence
6) Immerse Yourself In The Content Of That Goal
For the spiritually inclined, this is “presence.”
If your goal is better relationships, practice filling your attention with the entirety of the other person.
All 5 senses engaged in the present situation.
Perpetual flow state.
For the spiritually inclined, this is “presence.”
If your goal is better relationships, practice filling your attention with the entirety of the other person.
All 5 senses engaged in the present situation.
Perpetual flow state.
7) A Moment Of Recognition
You will fail at this.
A distraction will register in your awareness, split your attention, and may trigger a negative feeling.
All it takes is a moment of recognition to snap yourself out of it.
You will fail at this.
A distraction will register in your awareness, split your attention, and may trigger a negative feeling.
All it takes is a moment of recognition to snap yourself out of it.
8) Put In The Metaphorical Reps
Everything is a muscle.
Your focus, relationships, business, fitness, spiritual practice, and habits of any kind.
They grow with focus, ample energy to fuel performance and recovery, and direct experience so you can double down on what works.
Everything is a muscle.
Your focus, relationships, business, fitness, spiritual practice, and habits of any kind.
They grow with focus, ample energy to fuel performance and recovery, and direct experience so you can double down on what works.
To recap on fixing overwhelm from split attention:
1) Identify a weak link
2) Learn the fundamentals
3) Create a goal
4) Educate for that goal
5) Block out time
6) Be present
7) Recognize distractions
8) Be consistent
9) RT the thread for me :)
1) Identify a weak link
2) Learn the fundamentals
3) Create a goal
4) Educate for that goal
5) Block out time
6) Be present
7) Recognize distractions
8) Be consistent
9) RT the thread for me :)
This is a condensed version of last weeks Koe Letter.
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(This Saturday's is on the best skills to learn + the new education system)
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(This Saturday's is on the best skills to learn + the new education system)
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