Why "laziness" is actually a biological glitch.

I was recently interviewing Carlos Samaniego on my podcast. If you don't know Carlos, he’s a tax expert, but before that, he was an Army medic and a paramedic.

He told me something about human survival that changed how I look at my to-do list.

In a crisis (like a car wreck), the average person does one of two things:

They panic.
They freeze.

Carlos called this a biological glitch. When the noise gets too loud, your brain hits a "pause" button to save energy.

Here is the kicker: Your brain treats a messy business the same way it treats a car wreck.

When you have 500 unread emails, a stack of tax notices, or a CRM that looks like a disaster zone... you don't "grind harder." You hit The Freeze.

You stop opening the mail. You stop making the calls. You stare at your screen for three hours and accomplish nothing.

Carlos said the person who survives is the one who keeps a "Calm Voice."

In a crisis, the person who thinks most clearly wins.

For me, that "calm voice" isn't just a state of mind. It is a system. It is having a remote team that handles the "Doing" so I can stay in the "Thinking."

When the friction is moved to a system, the noise stops. When the noise stops, the freeze melts.

I want to hear from the group. What is the one "trigger task" in your business that usually makes you hit the pause button?

(For me, it was always looking at messy bookkeeping. I’d see the numbers and suddenly feel like I needed a nap.)

Drop yours below. Let's see if we can find some patterns.

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