{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What Works","title":"EP 334: Creating Mental Space With Simple Changes","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1601,"description":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s the ROI on mental space?\n\n\n\nWhat would it be worth to you to get some peace of mind?\n\n\n\nWhat would you be willing to do to alleviate a bit of uncertainty from your life or business?\n\n\n\nAll this month, we’ve been talking about simplifying and the immense benefits you can experience by building a simple business.\n\n\n\nWe’re going to close things out here by taking a look at how operational improvements can create a profound sense of relief—and open up mental space that you didn’t even know was cluttered!\n\n\n\nI can easily remember what it was like to run my business before we built solid systems. \n\n\n\nCluttered is exactly how I would describe it.\n\n\n\nIt wasn’t just the operational clutter–files all over the place, to-do lists scattered all over my desk, and priorities that could change on a whim.\n\n\n\nIt was also the mental clutter.\n\n\n\nWhere did all that mental clutter come from? Well, it was a result of a whole bunch of unhelpful habits and patterns.\n\n\n\nIt was people-pleasing and scarcity thinking and entrepreneurial optimism. I had mental clutter from my habit of trying to remember all of the things instead of documneting stuff. I had mental clutter from avoiding conflict and never setting firm boundaries.\n\n\n\nIn order to clear up my operational clutter, I also had to clean up those patterns. \n\n\n\nBecause a simple system was never going to stick if my habits were just going to lead to me cluttering things up again.\n\n\n\nAnd I think that’s where we so often go wrong when it comes to simplifying and cleaning things up.\n\n\n\nWe put smart systems on top of unconscious mental patterns. We try to apply countermeasures without addressing the inner game of business at the same time.\n\n\n\nIf we’re building awareness of how and why things get messy or complicated in the first place, then we can design a cleaner system AND maintain it.\n\n\n\nWhich is great.\n\n\n\nAND… it gets better. As I mentioned, one of the best benefits of cleaning things up and simplifying is mental space.\n\n\n...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AmfGeDL96-fhMaeOcqmX7TK_eWrvTLco6OJj2QpZtZI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NGUx/OWY5ZDg1M2E5MmU3/ZjEwOWVmNDM3MWVh/ZjZlOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}