Listen, running a business
that's generated more than 100 million is not easy by itself. And it's probably even harder when you
struggle with ADHD, which I happen to do. So, you know, every day I wake
up and I have to look at my day, compartmentalize it and plan how
I'm going to get through this day. Otherwise I'm going to go crazy. Every single new thing that I
have to do is like opening another tab in a browser in my brain. And every single one of those items,
I'm like trying to keep track of.
If somebody asks me for something by
text message, there's another tab. And I log in to, to Stripe, and I
ask, somebody asks me to, to pull Amazon revenue, that's another tab. Or somebody asks me About something
that's going to be due in two days that I might not even have realized existed
while I Simultaneously get three other requests for meetings in the next three
hours Which I was going to use to get through these tasks all of these things
Drive me absolutely crazy And I wind up getting ove
rwhelmed to the point
where I actually it actually starts to feel like depression Where I started
to feel down I feel stressed out and I? In the past, I used to, like, borderline
have a meltdown because I couldn't figure out which thing that I should do. And since I was compartmentalizing
all of them inside my head, I was just ready to explode. So, how I've figured out that I can deal
with stress Well, first of all, if you get to that point The first thing that
you have to realize, especially if
it starts showing up as like depression or
feeling down, is this too shall pass. You know, whenever you feel a certain
way, knowing that it's the result of overwhelm, Or something external and that
you'll get through it is the first thing you need to acknowledge to get through it. The next thing you need to do, and this
is specifically what I do, and this is how I deal with it, is I keep one of
these notebooks right beside my computer. First thing I do in the morning, because
I've already got l
ike 10 text messages from people, I just come sit down and I
write everything down in the notebook. One thing at a time. I don't try to do anything
until I've got it all. Out of my head, because then I can
go and go, I can close all of those little browser windows that I'm
keeping in my memory juggling to make sure that I don't let anybody down. So I write all of these things down and
a step that I didn't mention, probably because I have ADHD, um, is when you
first wake up in the morning, don't
just pick up your phone and start looking
at all the things you have to do. Take like 30 minutes, go have your
shower, have your coffee or your breakfast if you eat breakfast. And try to look at your device, your brain
is still in creative mode from sleeping. I think that's called theta waves. But I found that if I don't touch my
phone for 30 minutes, it just allows me some space and some time for my
brain to settle without thinking about all the things that I have to do. Because as soon as I st
art juggling
those, those tabs start popping open. So I like to try to not think about
what I have to do until I'm able to sit down and actually start writing it down. I then quickly go through my slack
messages, uh, my, uh, possible messages from my executive
assistant, or, you know, dig through emails, text messages, whatever
sources of requests that you have. And I like that, I just
write everything down. And I mentioned in a few other videos,
you can use an Eisenhower matrix, which is basica
lly Um, a thing to prioritize
what tasks you should be doing, but I, I just like to quickly write right down. Like, is this a quick task? It takes five minutes. How long is it to take? And when it's due. Once I've got everything written down,
the best way that I have found to reduce my overwhelm and feel really
good about myself is to simply go and do like two or three of the things
that I can get done really quickly. It gives me feedback. It gives me a bit of dopamine,
which makes me feel good
about starting my day on the right foot. I've checked a few things off my
list, and I don't feel overwhelmed. Everything's out of my brain, it's on
the sheet, I bring the book with me, I scratch it off with an old school tactile
pen, and I know that I am not going, you know, either way I know that my
life is not going to come to an end, or these things are not going to ruin me. But when I have them all down on paper,
I know exactly what I have to do. And nine times out of a ten, when I
write the
se all down, I can quickly scratch a whole bunch of them off. And before I know it, I still have
a few extra hours in my day and I've banged out everything that I need to do. Anyways, that's how I deal with
the stresses that I get from excessive browser tabs open in
my brain, aka too many requests. Hope you found it viable.
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