How to Reset Your Brain for the Week in 5 Minutes | Mel Robbins #Shorts

1. MRMel Robbins0:00

   First, we're going to do what I call a brain dump. If you've never heard the term brain dump, don't worry about it. It is so dead simple. This is not pretty. This is not for you to show other people. This is for you to be able to just dump things down. One way I sometimes do it is I can divide the piece of paper up into three sections: work, home, personal, and then just start dumping things that come to your mind under each category. Oh, I gotta book the vet appointment for the dog. I gotta call my friend back. I need to send my friend Robin flowers, 'cause she's doing something amazing today, and I meant to do it yesterday, and by God, I didn't do it yesterday. Well, I'm gonna do it today. And I'm just exhausted thinking about all the things that could be on the list. I've got this one that I did in 10 minutes this morning. Holy cow, are we carrying around a lot of stuff! This is how you clear out the mental clutter, and I can imagine you looking at what you write down, and you getting, "Oh, my God, there's a lot of stuff on this list!" But hear me loud and clear, a brain dump is not a to-do list. Psychologists have known for a long time that unfinished tasks, all the crap we just vomited out on the page, it's open loops and tabs in your brain. I want you to then look at what you wrote down, and here's what you're going to do. You're gonna cross off everything that's not happening today, okay? It, it doesn't mean it's not gonna happen in the future. You're just gonna cross it off and go, "Not today." And then what we're gonna do is you're gonna circle one thing. Boom! Just one thing, one thing on the list that feels the most important to you. Simply getting it out of your head, onto that paper, crossing everything else off, and then circling the thing that's the most important to you. You wanna know what I just circled? Because this is really impressive. I'm gonna make a grocery shopping list, and you wanna know why? Because we have nothing in the fridge, 'cause I've been gone for a week, and so it's the most important thing for me to make a grocery shopping list today. I will grocery shop tomorrow, but getting this done today means I am set up to do this tomorrow. I have taken one step forward toward taking control. It's helping me physically say, "Not important, and this is what matters." [gentle music]

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