Hey, good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2019. I was

recently talking to someone who has a lot on their mind, and we discussed an analogy that really

helped them out. The analogy was that of a laptop. I said, the more tabs you have open in your

laptop, what happens to the operating speed of that

laptop? And he goes on to say it goes slower. And I said the mind is very similar to that.

The more tabs we have open, tabs could be things at work, things at school, things with your family,

doing the dishes, getting your dry cleaning. The more tabs that we have open, the slower our

decision making our processing speed is. You might be an athlete and you might be focused on so many

things that you can't lock in on the most important thing. As we always say, the main thing is to

keep the main thing, the main thing. And the corollary principle is when you have many

priorities you have none and so i invited him to identify which tabs are the most important

which ones are the ones that he needs to keep open so that he can close all the other ones

so that he can ultimately perform at a higher level mentally and be able

to make faster decisions. He made the decision, closed the tabs, and he was able to focus and make

his decisions a lot quicker. So my question to you is, what tabs do you have open that are clogging

your cognitive, cognitive load that are

hindering decision making and ultimately hurting your performance identify what's open

identify what you need to close and one of the way to close some things is in some things

you got to ignore and then other things is accomplishing the task you might have this open loop

this open tab of sending that email the only way to close it is to not ignore it but just send that

email make that call send a text do those little things that might be taking a lot of space

in your mind that you just need to accomplish have a great day and we'll do it again tomorrow

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