Latest / The Checkpoint Podcast: Questions / Episode 11 | How To Slow Down When your Mind Never Stops?
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- The DECAF Network: Hey, it's Dex from the Checkpoint and Reboot Player One. And the question for today is one that I have no idea how to answer. Anyway, these questions are usually asked on tc.rebootplayer1.com. And if you have an answer to this, I would love to hear it. So the question is What does slowing down actually look like? What does slowing down actually look like? This is really difficult question for me. I'll admit something. I think I have self-diagnosed ADHD. And I think I've known that about myself for a while. And I I tend to think of it as a bit of a superpower. Again, that's me. You know, for people that are clinically diagnosed, I understand that it can be very difficult with it. And that, you know, they need to adjust. their life to suit and or have medication and or do a combination of both. So I I'm I'm not I'm I'm not painting it in a I'm not painting myself in a ⁓ a grandiose light because of because of this. But I've always had the ability to tasks which pretty quickly I I think it's just been as a result of of running my own business and being the only employee you know, being the only person for the majority of, you know, the close to twenty years. And and so within the space of an hour I could be trying to solve ⁓ a computer problem, ⁓ take a question about invoicing, I could order some hardware, ⁓ and then I could, you know, answer some emails, ⁓ all with different clients and and all with a minimal fuss and quite decent Focus and concentration. It ⁓ it it's it's fairly easy for me to just stop that one particular task and pick up the other task when it needs to be done and work on that. And then if something comes in to halt that and then complete this other thing or work on that a bit more. I f I find that that's just how I've always been. Whether or not it's the most productive, I don't know, because I I've not done it any other way. I I think I have. I think I have tried at some point to to focus. You know, I've read productivity books, ⁓ time management books and like all different books to do with things like this. And a lot of the times some of their suggestions just never really ⁓ sat well with me. I'd try them out, but I I just couldn't I couldn't devote enough time to to one task for as long as you know that they said I should be doing. Things like the Pomodoro method ⁓ was something that I that I couldn't do. So having said all that, I'm I feel like I'm constantly in a state of flux, just doing something all the time. And so the concept and the idea of of me slowing down is is is kind of horrifying. It really is. I I have this feeling that. When I'm moving, I'm doing things and I'm ticking things off and I'm completing things. And that's just how it is. Like I, you know, I'm I'm I'm not this person that will build one building in the like one block at a time until that building's finished and then I start another building. I'm I I'm the person that has a whole bunch of different blocks and then I'll start to build one building and then maybe a quarter of it start another one, and then maybe when it's halfway through that, I'll work on the first one. And then after working on the first one for a little bit, I might start another two or three buildings and just work on them. And eventually, all of the buildings get finished. Now, had I started those buildings and done one and then completed it and then the second and then completed it and then the third and so on, would it be better? I I d I don't know. Maybe. I think some people say it would be better. ⁓ but ⁓ it's in my for the way that I've always worked and done things, I'm ⁓ it it's not working for me. So because I'm always doing all these things, the the thought of me slowing down actually, I think I've just answered the question. So, what does slowing down actually look like for me? It's doing one thing at a time. At length. That's what slowing down actually looks like. And I've tried it. And, you know, I I recorded a video just before, funnily enough. And one of the words that I used was about life. And I stole it from a friend. And It was a around the person that I'm becoming or something along those lines. And the word that I use was evolving. And in this in this instance, ⁓ there might not, you know, there there's a reason for me to potentially evolve to that way of productivity. You know, I started answering this question at the very beginning and I said that I'm ⁓ I've I have like self-diagnosed ADHD. Now, since I've said that, and I've been saying that for a while. It's not a long not a long while, but some years. I've noticed now when I'm stopping something and starting something and There were there have been times when it might take me a little bit to figure out what it was that I'm thinking of. You know, it like it's it's the same sort of scenario where I could be doing some work and then a notification pops up on my phone. It could be Instagram, it could be Facebook, whatever it is, and then I look at it and then I'm like, ⁓ I laugh because somebody sent me a meme and then I go back to work and I'm like, Well, I can't remember what I was typing again. Like I I I start to have or I or I'm more aware of me having that slight brain fog. So slowing down could be something I might want to try. But it's ⁓ it's a it's it's a mindset shift for me that I I've that I think I'm going to find quite difficult. Even though If I was to do it, if I was to employ this method of work, so to speak, that I would probably get at least something done. And then I can concentrate on the next thing. But I think in my head, the fact that, yeah, great, I've I've completed one thing. But there are so many other things that I have to complete that I've not even touched, I I would probably get anxiety with that. And so hence I like to push things, like push a lot of things forward a little bit, you know, because that way I know that I'm working on each thing as it needs it. Look, I get it. If there are things that are due sooner than the other than others, I will do that first and get that out of the way. Like I do have prioritization skills, that's not an issue. It's just the physical work itself in terms of me doing it. I'll assign kind of like my energy based on how on what I feel. ⁓ so slowing down for me actually looks like doing one thing at a time. And that's not just work. It could be family stuff as well. It could be the decision to either ⁓ concentrate more on, say, my physical health or my mental health, ⁓ say family life. You know, there could be a more concerted efforts towards those things. That's kind of what slowing down would look like for me, rather than the shotgun approach of just doing everything all at the same time. So I think that's my answer. What does slowing down look like for me? What does slowing down actually look like? For me, it's just concentrate on one thing till it's done and then start the next thing. Okay. Thanks. ⁓ if you had questions like this Or if you'd like to answer questions like this, ⁓ we have the catch-ups every Wednesday. If you'd like to know more information, you can go to tc.rebootplay1.com. I'm Dex, and I will see you next time. Thanks.