Start Brain Dumping Tonight

I brain dump in the evening and increase productivity

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The new year is here again and many of us are tweaking our lifestyles to improve aspects of our home, ourselves, and our businesses. One of the habits that I am developing for each evening is brain dumping.

Every evening I am trying to do every evening before going to bed is to do a brain dump into my digital journal. Brain dumping is writing down whatever comes to my mind. A lot of people that I know like to journal on paper, but personally, I like to journal digitally because I type faster than I write, and I can type fast enough to keep up with my thoughts.

Reasons to Do Brain Dump in the Evening

Here are the reasons that I do my brain dump at the end of the day in the evening to get what I want to remember and get it into print.

1. Having things out of my head and in print is a nighttime ritual that aids in helping me sleep. I realized this years ago when I went to bed one night and I couldn’t get the thoughts about things that I needed to do out of my head. The things I needed to do just kept going through my head. I reminded myself that there was nothing that I could do about them that night, but still couldn’t sleep because I had all that stuff to do. Rather than toss and turn…