Often, the reason why an idea is on your mind but seems impossible to deliver is that you want it to be different than it currently is.
That is why it’s in your mind. Until all those thoughts have been explained and those choices made, and the resulting data has been kept in a system that you know you’ll access and consider when you need to, your brain can’t give up the task. You can fool everyone else, but you cannot trick your mind. Your mind knows whether or not you’ve come to the conclusions you need to and whether you’ve put the resulting outcomes and action reminders in a place within it that can be reliably accessed. If you have not done those things, it will not quit working overtime. Even if you have ...
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