Dump everything
Write down every open loop in your head — tasks, worries, errands, half-remembered things. Don't sort, don't judge, don't prioritise. The goal is an empty working memory. Do this daily, at the same time.
One page. Three moves: dump everything in your head, shrink it to three anchors, and timebox each one. Print it, fill it in tonight, and let tomorrow start itself.
Write down every open loop in your head — tasks, worries, errands, half-remembered things. Don't sort, don't judge, don't prioritise. The goal is an empty working memory. Do this daily, at the same time.
Pick the three most important items and shrink them until starting feels embarrassingly easy. "Clean the kitchen" becomes "put the dishes in the sink." Once you start, the Zeigarnik effect finishes the job.
Time blindness turns "do it sometime" into "do it never." Give each anchor a start time and an end time. A defined end lowers the activation energy — you're not finishing the taxes, you're doing 25 minutes of them.
When it's time to start, set a timer and go. One task, one block, no switching. The timer is the boundary — you only have to hold focus until it rings.
Fill this in each evening for tomorrow. Print and keep it where you work.
Everything in your head. Unfiltered. No sorting.
Cross out what doesn't matter. Move what can wait. Keep only 3.
Your only three tasks tomorrow. Each one gets a time box.
The free Brain Dump tool externalises every open loop in seconds — then the Task Breakdown tool shrinks the scariest one into five easy steps.
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