S7 Ep98: How to Do Your Best Brain Dump Ever

Live Well Anyway

MacKenzie Koppa

Books, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Arts

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of the Live Well Anyway podcast, host MacKenzie Koppa walks you through the steps to create a thorough brain dump that will relieve your sense of overwhelm and start you on the path to productivity. These are the key essentials for doing your best brain dump ever:

Use categories and subcategories to help get everything out of your head and down on paper (or digitally).
Nothing is too small to write down.
Don't worry about it being messy.
Write down everything that you are actively trying to remember, take care of, be responsible for, or that is draining your emotional energy.
Use Trello to help convert your brain dump into an easy to access and update digital format.
After your get all the things down on paper, evaluate all of your categories into "projects" and "mainstays" lists.
Prioritize your lists and add how much time things will take to make them actionable.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Live Well Anyway. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa, and on this podcast, we focus on a lot of life's logistics like planning and wellness, along with some fun things like skincare and reading. And overall, we just throw in a whole lot of life.
0:22.9	Around here, we know that life is messy, but we're just doing our best to learn how to live well anyway.
0:27.5	So join me on this journey as we figure it out together.
0:30.3	And just to get us started, I'll go first.
0:33.2	And today, I am going first talking about how to have a really efficient and thorough brain dump
0:41.1	that is going to help you to overcome the overwhelm that you are facing in your life.
0:47.3	I know from my own experience and also working with a lot of clients who I have been helping
0:52.9	to go through the live well planned cohort program
0:56.2	that everything starts to take on the same weight, the same priority, because we've got so many
1:04.1	things weighing on our brains and we don't know what the next right thing is. We hear that term
1:10.1	thrown around a lot. Just do the next right thing. Well, what the heck is the next right thing is. We hear that term thrown around a lot. Just do the next right thing.
1:12.8	Well, what the heck is the next right thing? I'm feeling completely overwhelmed and I don't know
1:17.9	what to do next. And I thoroughly believe that a good brain dump that just helps you to not
1:25.0	be holding all of these things in your head anymore, get them down
1:28.5	on paper and be able to sort them out so that you can figure out a plan going forward
1:33.6	is the first step and probably the most key step in being able to feel more on top of your
1:41.4	life unless like everything is vying for your attention and being
1:45.3	able to more clearly identify what those next right things are. So we are going to deep dive into
1:52.7	this today for this episode. I'm so looking forward to it. I think it's going to hopefully
1:58.1	be a very helpful episode to you guys. But I also want to say,
2:02.8	if you hear this episode and you're like, that sounds awesome, I really need to do that,
2:08.3	but I have trouble jumping on these planning things myself. I need a little bit of accountability.
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