The Thought Bottleneck
Ideas, tasks, loose ends, “I should do this next”… all bouncing around in your head. That mental noise is what creates overwhelm, not lack of capability.
This week’s focus is about externalizing your thinking and letting AI help you decide not distract you.
🚨 The real problem this solves:
Decision fatigue
Starting new plans every week instead of finishing one
Feeling busy but not moving the needle
Carrying your entire business in your head (which kills clarity)
🧩 The simple system (but don’t confuse simple with shallow)
Keep ONE living “Business Brain Dump” doc
Ideas
Tasks
Frustrations
Opportunities
Half-baked thoughts
You do zero organizing upfront
You update it continuously instead of starting over every Monday
The power move isn’t the doc. It’s how you use AI to extract leverage from it.
🤖 How to use AI properly (THIS WEEK)
Don’t ask AI to “help” or “brainstorm.” Ask it to think strategically with constraints.
Paste your brain dump into AI and use a prompt like this:
You are a strategic operator focused on leverage, not activity.
Based on this list:
• Identify the one action that would create the highest downstream impact over the next 30 days
• Explain why this is the leverage point
• Identify what I should ignore, delay, or delete to protect focus
• Break the chosen action into the smallest executable next step I can complete this week
Assume I can only meaningfully move ONE priority forward.
Important mindset shift!!
AI is not here to replace your thinking.
AI is here to:
Reduce cognitive load
Surface patterns you’re too close to see
Force tradeoffs (which humans avoid)
Clarity comes from choosing, not adding.
✅️ Weekly rule
For the next 30 days:
One main focus
One measurable outcome
Everything else is background noise
Execution compounds. Scattered effort doesn’t.
Let us know how this prompt went for you. Did you feel more organized after getting your brain dump in one cohesive place?