Coaching practices for Get Things Out of Your Head

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• My head is so crammed with half-finished thoughts and open loops and background worries that I can’t focus on anything in front of me
• My brain keeps pinging me with everything I’m scared to forget, even at 2am, because some part of me doesn’t believe any of it is actually written down somewhere safe
• There’s so much piled on me at once that I can’t even find myself underneath it all
• There are so many half-formed goals and someday-projects rattling around in my head that I can’t even see them clearly
• The same unfinished errands keep barging into my head while I’m trying to work

Practices that may help

1. Write a brain dump to clear cognitive load
   Spend 5-10 minutes writing everything on your mind without editing or organizing — the goal is evacuation, not composition.
   Journaling for Clarity
2. Capture everything into a trusted inbox
   Get every open loop out of your head and into one external place you trust.
   Getting Things Done (GTD), Made Practical
3. Clear a space
   Set down each burden one by one to find the calm place underneath them.
   Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical
4. Write all 25 goals without editing
   Brain-dump every goal, aspiration, and project you’re holding — professional and personal — uncensored.
   Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
5. Keep a task-unrelated thought log
   Capture off-task thoughts that recur so you can address them outside work time.
   Mind Wandering and the Default Mode Network
6. Leaves on a stream visualization
   Imagine each thought as a leaf floating by on a stream — you watch it pass without grabbing it.
   Defusion from Anxious Thoughts
7. Postpone the thought — do not suppress it
   Schedule worry to a fixed window later; until then, watch the urge to engage without acting on it.
   Detached Mindfulness, Made Practical
8. Close loops deliberately to reduce mental clutter
   Capture every open commitment in a trusted system so the brain can let it go.
   The Zeigarnik Effect: Using Task Tension to Stay Motivated
9. Pressing thoughts into the cloud of forgetting
   Put every thought — including holy ones — beneath you, pressing them out of awareness.
   The Cloud of Unknowing: Contemplation Beyond Concepts
10. A — Allow the experience to be as it is
    Let what is present be here, without pushing it away, numbing it, or elaborating it.
    RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice

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