How to protect your mental bandwidth

Your success in business is directly tied to your value as an entrepreneur.

In other words, a million dollar business requires a million dollar entrepreneur.

One of the most common pitfalls entrepreneurs face, which keeps them from expanding into their potential and reaping the rewards of their effort is a lack of mental bandwidth.

Mental bandwidth is the amount of cognitive resources you have free to apply in a given situation.

Hence, more mental bandwidth means you have more cognitive resources.

Which creates more clarity, focus, creativity, and productivity, as well as better actions and decisions.

This only results in 1 thing: better business growth, more money, and fewer working hours.

But of course, if your cognitive bandwidth is low then the opposite happens - and you end up lying in bed each night wondering why nothing is working, why you’re so stressed and why you feel guilty that you aren’t working hard enough.

One of the most common ways you can ruin your mental bandwidth is having open loops - tasks or problems that you leave unsolved.

You know, those small tasks that you say you’ll do tomorrow? Or those problems that can wait till another day? Or that message needs replied to?

These are all open loops that sit in the back of your mind, open, using up resources, until they’re solved.

And until you close those loops you’ll never operate at your peak and your focus, productivity, clarity and creativity will all be limited.

Luckily, there’s an incredibly simple solution to these open loops.

1. Set A Hard Stop Time For Work

This is a time (eg. 6pm), when you stop working entirely and don’t do anything after it.

2. Let All The Small Tasks Gather Up

As you go through your day, let the small tasks gather up.

This way you’re not interrupting your important tasks with unimportant work and you get to lock in, fully focused on what matters.

3. Daily Wrap

If your hard stop time is 6pm, at 5pm, do those small tasks that gathered up - this is a daily wrap, where in the last hour of your day you wrap up your day.

This way everything gets dealt with and you close those open loops without pulling your focus and attention away from your important tasks earlier in the day and allowing you to attack tomorrow at the top of your game.

4. Weekly Wrap

Now if some of those open loops don’t get closed, carry that task/problem over till Sunday.

Set aside 2-3 hours every Sunday to do a weekly wrap, close every open loop from the week and start your week fresh, fully focused and with as much cognitive resources as possible for attacking your goals.

If you want to succeed in business, you need to be at the top of your mental game - and you’ll never do that if you’re not closing those damn loops every day.

— Ross

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