Confusion We all know what confusion feels like—scattered thoughts, lack of focus, and the overwhelming pressure of trying to prioritize everything at once. But what causes this confusion? Essentially, it's split attention, where everything seems equally important, creating a murky mental state like brown liquid in a clear pool.
The antidote? Your own priorities and boundaries. Here's a guide to regaining clarity:
- Spilt Attention: Everything seems to have the same weight and priority, leading to pressure and confusion.
- Antidote: Your own priorities and boundaries help you feel in control and focused.
- Exercises:Time Audit: Review your calendar from last week.
- Priorities Circle: Identify what's most important to you.
- Worksheet: Evaluate mismatches between your priorities and actions. Open your google calendar, and compare what you wrote as your priorities vs. what you actually be doin' day to day.
- Where are these areas feeding each other? For example, if your career is taking off, is it taking the financial pressure off your family, or just taking the time?
- How are you limiting one area out of fear for another? I.E. Are you afraid of working out (body health), because you are trapped in the controlling thoughts of your mind, afraid to miss an email, an opportunity?
- Where are you benefiting from staying confused, stuck, or small? How is your current confusion level actually something your subconsciously thriving on?
- Brain-Dump: List what's on your to-do list and what's stuck.
- Prioritize: Integrate your priorities into your calendar as actionable steps.
- Closing Meditation: Notice and cut the strings of unnecessary obligations.
Clarity! Ah, feels so good. Clarity is a string-free vibe, like energy flowing through unclogged channels. It's the feeling of completion and focus. Here's how to achieve it:
- In Your Body: Notice the physical sensation of clarity.
- In Your Actions: What do completed tasks feel like? What does an allocated budget feel like? What does the right amount of customers, and space feel like?
- Write Down: Identify what's muddy and what's clear in your life.
- Reflect: How clear are you as a person? Your clarity affects others. Reflect on your emails, texts, scattered actions: where are you the mirror?
- Block Scheduling: Avoid chaotic multitasking by organizing your time into focused blocks.
- Eliminate Fear: Recognize that split focus splits power. Write it down: "Split focus is splitting power." Post-it that and put it everywhere in your home! ;)
- Identify areas where you want to feel clearer.
- Plan: Create a schedule that reduces distractions and maximizes clarity.
- Meditation: Reflect on how clear you feel and set intentions for the week.
Creativity! The Magic! Once you achieve clarity, creativity can flow freely. Open space in your mind allows for innovative ideas and new opportunities.
- Mental Refresh: Take time to reset, like restarting a computer. At least an hour a week, go somewhere alone and "unclutter" yourself. Make lists, spend quiet time, shop... whatever it is for you.
- Create Space: Allow time for mental and physical refreshment.
- Organize Finances: Address any "leaks" in your budget to make space for new opportunities.
- Plan: Use your clarity and creativity to develop actionable plans.
Cash! $$ Utilize cash to fuel your newfound clarity, creativity, and overall well-being.
- Network: Follow new people and explore new activities.
- Growth: Let your world and opportunities grow with your expanding clarity and creativity.
- Fuel All Areas: Use cash to support your priorities, creativity, and personal growth, based on the clarity and time slots you've allotted.
- Connect: Engage with a broader community to enhance your opportunities.
- Implement: Follow through with actionable steps to ensure continuous growth. When you get unclear, go back to clarity, when you get fuzzy, go back to confusion... when you're lacking the inspiration for even an IG caption: go get some quiet time.
