Stop the Spiral: Try a Brain Dump · REinvest Real Estate

Lou Raven

Jun 13 • 🧮 Strategies

Stop the Spiral: Try a Brain Dump

If your brain feels noisy and you're bouncing between five things without finishing any of them, try this...

Do a full brain dump. Dump it allll on 1 page. 💩

I mean everything.

Personal, business, big and small. Get it out of your head and onto paper or into a doc.

AFTER you've dumped ALL of it, assign a priority level (high, medium, low).

Next, estimate how long each one will take. Overestimate the time—it helps you trust the list instead of second-guessing it.

Agents I’ve suggested this to are almost always surprised by two things:

The list isn’t as long as it felt.
Most of it takes way less time to knock out than they thought.

When we don’t write things down, we just keep mentally circling the same tasks over and over—and the time we spend thinking about the work ends up being more than the time it would’ve taken to just do the work.

Once you’ve got it all out and organized, knock out a couple quick wins to build momentum, then slot the rest into your calendar. You already did the time estimates, so you're halfway there!

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