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081: Brain Fog at Work: The Hidden Cost of Fatigue and Poor Sleep · Limitless Living with Fredricka Davis

• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome back to the Limitless Living Podcast.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Frederica Davis, your host, and today is Sustainable Success Tuesday.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: This is where we talk about building meaningful success without sacrificing your health, your relationships, or the rest of your life to create it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever opened an email, read it, and then five minutes later realized you couldn't tell me what you just read?
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  SPEAKER_00: So you read it again, maybe a third time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is not a complicated email.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is something you normally would have handled in just about two minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or maybe you walk into a room and you forget why you went in the room, or you lose a word in the middle of a conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Happens to the best of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or you look at your list and you know it all needs to get done, but for some reason you just can't figure out which one to do first.
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  SPEAKER_00: When these things happen, and they do happen, if they're happening occasionally, you're probably laughing them off.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: But when brain fog, fatigue, or poor sleep start showing up regularly, it can quietly become a serious business problem or a career problem long before you even recognize it as one.
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  SPEAKER_00: So listen, today I don't want to frighten you and suggest that every forgotten word means something is terribly wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: It happens to the best of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do want to show you where reduced mental clarity can begin costing you really valuable time, money, trust, confidence, and even opportunities.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to give you what you can do to protect your work while you address whatever it is that might be happening underneath it.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to be clear that persistent or worsening brain fog, fatigue, memory changes, or sleep issues, and so on and so forth, all of these things, they deserve appropriate medical evaluation.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: These symptoms can have many, many, many possible causes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this conversation is most definitely not a diagnosis and does not replace health care, of course.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I do know what it's like to be a capable, experienced woman and realize that my brain is not moving the way I know it can move.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's just not keeping up, it's not thinking as quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not as quick on my feet as I want to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know what that is like.
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  SPEAKER_00: After COVID, while I was also dealing with the worsening inflammation, the psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, fatigue, disrupted sleep was part of that too.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were times when the distance for me between knowing something and being able to access it really felt much larger than it should.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that can be incredibly unsettling and downright petrifying.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in that moment, you know you're intelligent, you know what you're doing, you know how to make the decisions, but all of a sudden, ordinary things start to require more effort than they used to, and you begin wondering whether or not you're becoming less capable, especially when we're in midlife.
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  SPEAKER_00: It gets a lot scarier in this kind of age frame and forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is something that we don't want to gloss over.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first hidden cost of this is rework.
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  SPEAKER_00: You write the email and then you discover you left out one of the attachments, you enter information incorrectly, you have to send it again, you forget part of a plan conversation, you order the wrong quantity of something, or you begin a task and later have to redo it because you missed a step.
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  SPEAKER_00: All those things, all that rework costs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the mistake itself might have been actually quite small.
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  SPEAKER_00: But after you make it, then you have to go back, find it, correct it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you have to explain it and apologize for it too.
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  SPEAKER_00: And something that should have probably taken you only 10 minutes winds up taking you 40.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then here's a really big cost to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your confidence takes a little hit right along with your schedule.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the second cost is decision delay.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you have brain fog or fatigue or any of the things we're talking about here today, when you have to make a decision, and it would normally be a decision that might seem quite straightforward, it can all of a sudden feel really enormous.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: You can keep reopening the same question or repeating the same sentence or researching more and more and asking another person, closing the document and then having to reopen the document, promising yourself you'll come back to it when your head is clearer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you done any of these things?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I have.
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  SPEAKER_00: I went through a lot of this before I got a handle on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, some decisions absolutely deserve careful thought.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you find yourself not just thoughtfully evaluating a decision, but over-evaluating a decision, coming back to it again and again, it is quite possibly because you're cognitively tired.
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  SPEAKER_00: So every option you're looking at in the decision feels harder for you to process and work all the way through.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: Now, the third cost is dropped follow-up.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have a good conversation with a potential client, customer, colleague, worker, friend, whoever it is, referral partner.
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  SPEAKER_00: You fully intend to respond to that person.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then all of a sudden, something else happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: The thought disappears, and three days later you remember it while you're doing something totally unrelated.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this can look like it is a time problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can look like it's a marketing problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yes, some of those can be true, or even a sales problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: When part of it, though, can actually be a working memory problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: The opportunity was there.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reliable capture system was not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the fourth cost that I see in brain fog, fatigue, and so on is poor sequencing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you might still be working hard, really hard, but now you're doing all the tasks in potentially an order that might be creating more work or be working less efficiently.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: You choose to answer low-value messages before completing the proposal because that's just where your capacity is at that moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you begin designing something before you even figured out what the offer is going to be, because that's where your brain went and you're not able to focus efficiently.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're spending time making a document really beautiful, and then you realize, wait a minute, all the content needs to change.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't plan the content fully and all the way through.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now I got to go back and do the document again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever done that?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I can tell you I've done all this stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: When mental clarity is reduced, it can be really hard to hold the full sequence in your head.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even on paper, it can be hard to follow the full sequence without distraction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, we've got other things that come into this like ADHD and things like that.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: But brain fog and poor sleep and fatigue can really change how we process information and how we actually approach our tasks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're taking action on whatever is immediately visible, even though you know some other things really should happen first.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fifth cost is communication that doesn't necessarily sound like you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is where we sometimes become shorter with people, or maybe send a message without enough context, or avoid a conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a bidgie, just because finding the words feels just too tiring and you just don't have the energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's over-explaining something because you do not trust that you made the point clearly the first time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, these are just all examples of how this can show up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, when we're talking business, this has the potential to literally affect your clients, your employees, your coworkers, and ultimately your professional reputation.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's expensive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, your family and your friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it does not mean that you suddenly stop caring.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean that you are too far gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean that you're over the hill.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean you're beyond repair.
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  SPEAKER_00: It does not even necessarily mean you have this big major medical diagnosis.
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  SPEAKER_00: It may mean you are simply communicating without your normal mental and emotional resources available.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm going to give you some reasons why this can happen and ways to address this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because this can happen literally from sleep deprivation, hormone changes, stress, nervous system dysregulation.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of things that are not necessarily these big uh medical diagnoses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these are all correctable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the sixth cost is inconsistent visibility.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you have ideas, but turning the idea into a post or an email or a presentation or a proposal, some sort of finished piece of work simply just feels harder than it should.
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  SPEAKER_00: Harder than it used to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe you do it for a little bit, but then you disappear for a while.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come back with a burst of effort and then you disappear again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this can be attached to, I'm gonna again say AVD, ADHD, um, busyness uh stages in life.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is one of the ways that this ongoing fatigue, sleep issues, brain fog can affect you in business.
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  SPEAKER_00: So from the outside, it might look like a market inconsistency problem, but on the inside, it may feel like this heavy burden and like every sentence just is being dragged through the mud to get it out of your head and onto the paper or onto whatever it is you're creating.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the seventh cost may be the most personal one.
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  SPEAKER_00: You begin questioning yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I actually think this is perhaps the most important one.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we are fatigued all the time, when our nervous system is out of whack all the time, when we are overly stressed, our nutrition is out of whack, whatever it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: When this is going on and we start having these issues, we start to second guess ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: We question everything we do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then that affects our confidence and that affects everything in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you start thinking to yourself, all right, maybe I'm just not as good at this as I used to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I used to be better at this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, maybe I just can't do this anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'm losing my edge, or maybe I'm too old for this, or maybe everybody else can keep up, but I just can't keep up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't learn it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm beyond this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what's wrong with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'm just not capable anymore, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: These things go through our heads.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that story, and that's what it is, it's a story we start telling ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: This can do far more damage than the original symptom because now you're making career and business decisions and even personal ones based on a temporary or treatable change in how you are functioning.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to give you something practical.
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  SPEAKER_00: I call this the cognitive friction audit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I created this uh to kind of get myself back in order as I was on my journey to improve my cognitive function post-COVID and long COVID and dealing with all of my chronic illness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, anybody who knows me knows that I now, even living with a chronic disease, can run circles around most 20-year-olds, and I'm almost 60.
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  SPEAKER_00: These things work.
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  SPEAKER_00: These things can really make a difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for the next five days, do not simply write down that you felt foggy or tired.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice where the friction has appeared.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where was it that you felt the foggy and tired feeling?
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  SPEAKER_00: And ask yourself four questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where am I making preventable mistakes or having to redo my work?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is taking noticeably longer than it used to?
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  SPEAKER_00: What am I repeatedly avoiding because it requires more concentration, more memory or decision making?
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  SPEAKER_00: And what part of my work needs a safeguard while I figure out what the heck is going on?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not about judging your productivity.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are looking for operational evidence of what is really happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you will discover that you make mistakes mostly after three o'clock.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or maybe it's going to be feel feel like, okay, I just can't make a financial decision to save my life after a poor night's sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or you'll discover that you lose follow-ups when they are not immediately entered into one system, or that every interruption now makes it difficult for you to return to the task that you were originally doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once you can start to see patterns, this is where you're going to stop asking your brain to compensate through effort alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because as women, that is our MO.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just push through, we keep going, we take care of everybody else, and that's effort.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's say you're forgetting follow-ups.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're going to want to then create one capture point, one way that you capture that, and then use it immediately.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't trust yourself to remember later.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually have a file I keep for follow-ups.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: It has several different categories in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I put the person in there immediately.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: And then I actually use AI to give me reminders of who needs to be followed up and when they need to be followed up.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: Or you can do this on a Google, or you can do this on a Google Calendar, just to give you an example, because that is one of the things that can happen for me.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: And if your written work is starting to have more mistakes in it, add a second review before it goes to a client or your employee or a customer.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: And if possible, just review it at a different time of day.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: I can tell you that if I'm tired, you will see many more typos.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, you'll notice it on my social media posts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if your written work contains more mistakes, add a second review before it goes to a client, an employee, or customer.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: If possible, review it at a different time of day.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: I have a VA who helps me a little bit with some of my social media posts, not all of them.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: And there have been mistakes, and she always makes mistakes because she's tired.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: I always make mistakes.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: You'll see it in my typos because I'm doing it late at night or I'm doing it in a hurry and I'm either tired or I'm doing too many things at one time and I'm not actually focused.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: These are patterns that I've noticed for both of us, just to give you an example.
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  SPEAKER_00: If decisions are harder during predictable lower energy periods, then stop scheduling major decisions there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Use that time for more of your familiar or your lower risk kinds of tasks.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I don't like to make a lot of decisions in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do not schedule anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: It requires too much of my brain power too early in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: So to give you an example.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if switching from one task to another is harder than it used to be, it's maybe making your brain fog worse.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: Then you're gonna notice that and you're gonna wanna start to group similar things together, similar work, similar activities together, giving your brain fewer transitions to actually have to manage.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: If you find you start having trouble with deciding what comes first, maybe it's what comes first on your to-do list, what comes first in a project you have, whatever it is, get it on paper, write it down.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, put it on the computer if you want.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: I prefer to write it down.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna give you an actual step-by-step for this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because once you figure out what has to be done and then you decide what the next step is or the most important things are, you'll know what your actual first move is.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: And if you choose to do that when you are the most clear thinking and you have the least brain fog, you will have better results.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for me, I'm not an early morning thinker.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: I can get up, but that does not mean I want to think clearly just yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give you an example here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a process of doing a bind dump.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do a brain dump the night before for the following day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do it a couple of ways, but for the sake of today, let's keep it simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it works so well on several counts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one is women, we are often thinking, and our brain is going a mile a minute, and then we get into bed and we think about all the things that we didn't get done today and we need to do tomorrow.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: And oh, I hope I don't forget this, and then we don't get a good night's sleep.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: It just plays on our minds.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: So, brain dumping, as I call it, the night before, is an effective way to release but not lose everything that's on your mind so that you can relax and actually allow yourself to let go of all those thoughts and have a better night's sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you'll probably get a better night's sleep by doing this at night.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you are like me, then in the morning you might be a little bit slower going for whatever reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't want to be depending on making your list and gathering your senses and figuring out what comes first at that moment, because that might not be your time to shine.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you are sleeping well at night and mornings are your time to shine, you can reverse this.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: But for the sake of talking about brain fog, and if you're suffering with it, I'm gonna bet that brain dumping the night before will help you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you quickly one of the simplest ways to do this.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: I've got several, but this is the simplest.
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  SPEAKER_00: I take a legal pad or a notebook, and I literally take um the left side of the page and I write down my list of everything I need to do on the right side, everyone I need to call.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: I might down in the bottom, one of the bottom corners, I might put things I need to buy.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um I might separate the page by computer work that I need to do.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: One corner might be all the things that are related to the desk, and one might be calls, and another might be things I need to buy or pick up or remember or whatever.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: You can pick your categories.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't matter.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: And then if there are things I need to go and pick up while I'm out of the house to make it very strategically quick and easy while you're driving the car to figure out what is next and figure out what your best route's going to be, I'll stick a circle next to the places I might need to go.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I brain dump randomly.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have to be in any order.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: But then I go back and I put a circle next to the ones that are somewhere I might have to drive or go.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: And then I go back and I say, okay, what are the top three things that have to be done first?
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: Period without compromise.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I highlight them.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: Those are my top three.
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  SPEAKER_00: I highlight them in one color.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then I start there and that's it.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: I put everything out of my brain so I can get a better night's sleep onto the paper.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: It is ready for when I wake up, and I keep it next to the bed because if I think of something else, I can add it to the list and release it from my mind and get a better night's sleep, which also will help you fatigue and brain fog.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: And then it's right there, ready for you.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: So that's just one simple way.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I've got others I teach them in my uh sustainable success program so you can find the one that fits you.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: But that one is a great place to start.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: And if something involves money or say a contract or client safety, confidential information or a decision that is kind of difficult.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: Slow it down.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Allow yourself to slow it down.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I would suggest getting even another set of qualified eyes on it to safeguard yourself.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: All of these are just safeguards.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: And none of them are substitutes for addressing the underlying problem.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: They're just safeguards to protect your work while you're addressing the problems.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: Now, the underlying problems that might be causing your lost memory or your delayed responses or your brain fog, whatever is going on, are going to be things that involve sleep, stress, hormonal changes, nutritional issues, side effects of medications, illnesses, pain, inflammation, anxiety, depression, ADHD, long COVID, or it can be something else entirely.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's a long list.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: And this is why newer persistent symptoms, I will tell you, should not be simply written off as aging or just being overly busy.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: If you need an evaluation, get an evaluation.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: If you need a lifestyle or a wellness overhaul, take the first step.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: And there is also a really important business truth in here that I think a lot of women miss.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: You may have insurance on your building or protect your data, maintain all of your equipment or review your finances and create systems for your team.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: But the person whose brain is holding all the vision, making all the decisions, noticing the patterns, creating Creating, supporting, maintaining the relationships may receive the least protection of all.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: And that person is you.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: And as a business owner for 40 years, I know how easy it is to have a business that depends solely on you or primarily on you.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: Your business should not depend on you for everything.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: When you get a little dose of the brain fog for any length of time, it has a way of often really revealing where your business is relying too heavily on information that only lives in your head and where you might really need to start putting in some systems.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: And if one difficult week causes client follow-up to disappear, that's potentially lost clients.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: That means your business needs a follow-up system.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: If nobody else can find the information, it needs to be documented.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: If every decision has to wait for you, then you may need clearer decision rights, assignments, procedures, or support.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so having these symptoms is less than ideal.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: But they may be showing you where the work has been built without enough margin or protection.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so there's two jobs here.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: Care for the woman who is experiencing the brain fog, the symptoms, and strengthen the way the work operates.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: So you don't have to hold everything together through memory and effort.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what sustainable success is in a very practical form.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: If this episode is describing your life right now, begin with the audit, identify one place where cognitive friction is happening and it's affecting your work.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: And install one safeguard this week.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: Then take your symptoms seriously enough to seek whatever the appropriate support you need is.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to wait until your work or your health or your confidence has fully deteriorated before responding to it.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: The next Whole Woman reset begins September 30th and enrollment closes on September 28th.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: If you are experiencing the brain fog, the fatigue, poor sleep or inflammation, any sense of overwhelming or just feeling unlike yourself, the program is designed to help you look at the whole picture and to be able to figure out where the best next step is for you to begin making realistic changes with support.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: You can learn more about that on my website at frederica davis.com.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're interested, but you're not quite sure, you can definitely request a brief reset clarity call.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: Just email me.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: You can also grab your free assessment.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: Five signs it may be time for a reset.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: And if the business side is where you need help, you can join the priority list for my next sustainable success program right on the website as well.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: So your brain is not separate from your business.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: You are not separate from your business.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: Your sleep is not separate from your leadership.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: And protecting your ability to think clearly is not a luxury.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_00: It is part of caring for the work you have built and the life you are building around it.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: You are part of your infrastructure.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for joining me today.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: If this episode helped you recognize something you have been blaming on motivation or competence, share it with another woman who might need the same reminder.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, be rooted, be resilient, and be limitless.