10/06/2026
A woman told me recently on a connect, that her thoughts were "bouncing all over the place like a rubber ball."
I knew exactly what she meant, because mine were doing the same thing.
A leadership conference presentation to prepare. The Permission Slip Weekend to plan. A business to run. Family, friends, a life.
I was doing lots of things and finishing none of them. All over the place and nowhere at the same time.
So one day last week I sat down at a desk covered in all of it and told myself: One. Just one thing. At a time.
I didn't buy a new planner or build a better system. I stopped trying to stand on five porches at once.
Here's what that looked like in practice, in case it's useful:
❇️ I wrote down everything that was bouncing. All of it, on one page, so it was out of my head and somewhere I could see it.
❇️Then I asked one question: what is the one thing that deserves my attention right now?
Not the loudest thing. Not the thing someone else was waiting on. The one that mattered most that day.
❇️I circled it, turned the page over, and gave it my attention until it was done.
The rest of the list was still there when I flipped the page back. But it had been sitting still instead of bouncing, and so had I.
If your mind has been bouncing lately, you're in good company. Mine was too.
