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Use this trick right now to clear your scattered mind
Do you ever have so many ideas rattling around in your brain that, instead of pursuing any of them, you just freeze?
There are times on occasion that I’ve sat down to write, looked at the outlines scattered all over my desk, looked at my notes app with literally hundreds of potential ideas, and proceeded to do … nothing.
This happened to me today, actually.
I sat down first thing in the morning with the intent to write 2–3 articles, and instead of putting a single word on the page, I started compulsively looking at my web stats, checking a couple things out on YouTube, looking at stock screeners.
Doing literally anything but writing.
As I started getting increasingly annoyed with myself at the time I was wasting, I thought to myself, “wait a sec … something has changed.”
Clearing the clutter
The something that changed was the fact I hadn’t done my Morning Pages in several days.
What are Morning Pages, you ask?
They are a deeply valuable creativity and mental health tool for restless people devised by author Julia Cameron in her book The Artist’s Way (affiliate link), and one I try to use every single day.
