Next step
Everything don too much
Comot everything from your head, pick one, find im next physical action. Nothing else today.
How e dey feel
No be say one thing hard. Na say nineteen things dey, dem all dey touch each other, and every time wey you look one, the remaining eighteen go make noise. So you no look any of dem, and that one come turn the twentieth thing.
Wetin fit dey happen
Overwhelm na load problem pass willpower problem:
- Everything dey your head at once, where e no get shape and e no get order.
- Task wey no clear dey take the same mental space as big task — two-minute email fit heavy like report.
- Without priority wey you decide, every item dey continue to compete, so attention no dey land.
- Deadline, money wahala, bad sleep and low mood all dey shrink the capacity wey you get to work with.
Try this one now
Empty am, choose one, find the next action
This one dey take around five minutes and e dey work because e dey move the list comot from your head, where e dey loud, go put am for page, where e get end.
Write every outstanding thing down. No sort am, no judge am, just empty am. Stop when nothing come again.
Read the list once. Choose exactly one item — the one wey get real consequence soonest. No be the easiest, no be the one wey fear pass. One.
No cross anything out, no delete anything. The rest go stay for the page — na the point be that: e dey written down, so you no need carry am.
For your one item, write the next physical action — the thing wey your hand go do next. Then do am.
Answer these three questions, we go turn am to steps.
Your steps
0 stepsThe one thing to do next
Your one next action
Do the next physical action for the one item wey you choose. When e done, you fit stop. To choose one and finish one action na the whole exercise — to go back for the other eighteen today na how the overwhelm dey return.