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Have you ever woken up out of bed and just had

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pure chaos in your head ? I'm talking

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as soon as you open your eyes ideas

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to do , things that you hate , things that you

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love , things you want to get done for the day , things

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that you shouldn't get done for the day , content , ideas

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, business ideas you name it it all

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can feel a little too much . See

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, all this noise is great . The problem is , when we have so

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many ideas in our head , it's hard to know

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what to actually do next , and in fact

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, I have a friend of mine that calls it creative

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constipation . It's this block

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that we get when we have so many ideas

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, so many things to do , but

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frankly , I don't even know sometimes what to

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even start with . And here's the kicker If

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you continue to let this be an issue

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and you don't get it out of your head , eventually

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it feels like you have a block . Then , all of a

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sudden , you have no ideas . And

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when I was thinking about this problem that I was having , it

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reminded me of this book . This book right here

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, the Robust , stupid . Now we're not going

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to just stop there , right ? So this book

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details out what should we do to make better

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decisions , know what to focus on , what

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not to focus on , but also to get all the

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cast out of her head . But there's another tool

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that I just recently picked up that actually happened

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to me do this pretty effectively . It is called

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the Remarkable Tube . So in this video

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I'm going to do something a little different . I'm

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going to not only describe the idea

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of thinking time Keith Cunningham goes over

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which , by the way , has made him a hundred

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millionaire , whatever you would call that , what is that

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called ? He just made a lot of money in his business

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but also how I'm going to be leveraging

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this tool here to not only keep my thoughts

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organized but take action on them so I

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can actually get something done . So the Road Less Stupid . One

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of my favorite things about this book is not your average

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business book . It's actually a cautionary

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tale . You see , keith Cunningham made a hundred dollar

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business but lost it all based on what

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he describes as really dumb mistake . So

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not only did that happen , which obviously sucks , he

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talks about how he got it all back using this

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methodology called thinking time . So the idea of

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thinking time is a way for you to have all

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of the distractions outside of the world away

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from you so you can sit down and write

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all of the stuff that's in your head

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. You can brain dump all the ideas

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, all of the problems that you have , and

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then figure out which one is the most important

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to solve . And , in fact , he gives kind of a step by step

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on how to do this . Number one is going to be to remove

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your phone . So no phones , he

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says . To make sure you go to the bathroom before you get

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started . He says get your favorite pen . You don't want

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any excuses as to why you don't get

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distracted . Now , considering

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the fact that this is 2024

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, we have tons of distractions . We want

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to get on our phones and , by the way , I have personally

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seen this happen with myself . So I wanted to use Notion

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for this . Here's the problem I

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get easily distracted . I

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mean , I'll be on Notion writing out my thoughts

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and then I'll go home . I should probably look that up

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. Next to you know , I'm over on Google trying

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to figure out something and then I'm in this rabbit hole

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. I'm on Reddit , I'm on Instagram and

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, next to you know , it's been two hours and I've got nothing

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done . So no phones , no computers

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, just simply a notepad . Or

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again , the remarkable two , the other part

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that he mentions is not just using it for a brain

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dump or doing it to solve a problem

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. So if you have a problem in your business

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or in your life , you're trying to think through

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. What you're going to do is you're going to write the top of that paper

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that one problem , what are you facing in

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that moment ? Then you're going to simply

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write all of the possible solutions you

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can have . This dives into a little bit of divulgent

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thinking , right , the fact that you can have multiple

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solutions for one problem . And the next final step

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is you go through , you circle out all the possible

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solutions you want to take action on , you pick the

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best one and you get started . So now

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here's what would happen . If I'm being completely

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honest , I would write all this down

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and this is not the first time I've done thinking time

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and I would take a regular

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notepad , write all my thoughts down . But here's

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the problem with that . I would write , I would get a notepad

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, I would write all my thinking time , what I needed to do , and

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it would just sit here and I would never

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look at it again . Kind of pointless , I

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know I've been looking at this thing called

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the remarkable two , which feels

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like paper and I know people say that all the time

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and it doesn't , but I'm telling you it actually does

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. I've been using this to not only

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have my note , but not only thinking time

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, but also to upload it somewhere so I

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can actually go back and refer to it . So I'm going

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to kind of go through this process . So here's an example

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of my thinking time today , and the thing I like about it is , as

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I go through this , I can actually circle

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and underline the ones that I actually need

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to focus on . But here's kind of my favorite part about

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this is that , unlike

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a notepad , you write a notepad . You write a

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notepad . It's kind of stuck there . It is what it is

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. But when I use this , let's say

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this , for example I come up with an idea for

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how I'm going to create a campaign with

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InKey and let's say I'm like , oh , I need to

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jam more space in here , or I don't need this to

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be as big . So I'm going to

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actually take this , move

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it around , make

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it a little bit smaller , move it over

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here , and then , when I'm all done

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, best part is I can then hit this little button

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and I can send it to my email . So

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what I've been doing recently with this is I send it over to my email

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and then I actually drop the PDF Into

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my notion so that way I can keep track of it and

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also add it as a task . So as I go through

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thinking time and I go all right , here are the

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steps that I need to take to actually get this

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crap out Of my head and take action

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on it . I will create it as a task

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for me to do over in notion , but this actually

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works really really well for content creation as

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well . So I'll constantly have ideas for

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content . But here's the problem whenever I

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again get on my phone and Start

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to type out what the ideas

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and how I'm gonna kind of deliver it , again

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I get distracted . I'm just being honest . I'll start looking

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up other things , I'll go on YouTube to see

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if anybody else has done it that way before , and now

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again I'm kind of distracted and I'm not executing

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on it . So what I've been doing here is not

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having any distractions . I will . I

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have a little content ideas folder and here's

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an example of like , for example , some short form I

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short form content ideas I came up with , but

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I simply not having any distractions . We'll just write

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out everything that's at the top of my head . Maybe

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I'll change out some things Obviously you can erase

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and all that stuff , but it's just not having

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any distractions . It's kind of the point that

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I'm trying to make here . It's it seems

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ridiculous to buy something like this . That's just

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like an iPad , probably just as expensive

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but can do halfway less

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. But I promise you , for some odd reason

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it's way more effective than even an

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iPad . With that being said , coming back to the problem

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at hand , right , we have this problem sometimes

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with creative Overwhelming . We

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have so many ideas we don't know what to do

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with it . Having a system similar to keep cutting

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hands , thinking time , where you sit down and

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you just don't have any Distractions , you write everything

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out . Sometimes it paves the

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way for better ideas . Me

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just doing this over the last few days

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, using especially the remarkable , has

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Greatly increased when what

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? Not only I can get done , but

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it kind of paves the way for better ideas

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. Not only is the stuff getting out of my head , max

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, to take an action on it , but , as always , I don't have

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all the answers and this may work for

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me and maybe would not work for you . So if you

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have something that you ultimately feel like works

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for you , drop in the comments below . Let

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me know what your thoughts are on this concept of thinking

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time , brain dumping , using

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something like the remarkable . If you don't use the remarkable , what do

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you use ? Let me know down in the comments and

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, as always , thank you for watching and I'll

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catch y'all in the next video .