Capture the good stuff

The weight of the world often hangs heavily on our shoulders. The endless to-do lists, the obligations and expectations, the routines and the annoyances. We all need a counterbalance, a counterpoint to the daily greyness of life. One technique I use is to capture the 'good stuff'. Now, this 'good stuff' can come in many forms. …

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After the brain dump

Three weeks ago I talked about offloading the thoughts buzzing around your brain onto a sheet of paper, in the bid to free up some space for actual thinking. You can read more about this here. I've also said I'll go on to explain what to do next, and I'm finally delivering on that promise! …

Take the load off your brain

Let's take a moment to engage in some folk psychology. Your brain has a 'working memory', which it uses to tackle everyday tasks and process the present moment. It addresses incoming information and files it away for storage. It solves problems and comes up with ideas. And it's oftentimes overloaded. If you're living in the …

Writing Things Down

‘The horror of that moment,’ the King went on, ‘I shall never, never forget!’ ‘You will, though,’ the Queen said, ‘if you don’t make a memorandum of it.’ Alice looked on with great interest as the King took an enormous memorandum-book out of his pocket, and began writing. - Lewis Carroll In the spirit of …