Welcome to Step 1 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here we'll deal with the fact that you are thinking about too many things at once. You need to take stuff off your mind and put it all in your trusted productivity system.
My wife always laughs at me saying I'm like an old computer with default settings - I recognize only 16 basic colors and I pretend to be a multi-tasking guy... where, actually, I can only do one thing at a time.
I must admit there is some truth in that. Just like David Allen says in his book "Getting Things Done", when your mind has too much to think about, you can't actually get anything done. You can't work efficiently when your mind is being distracted.
That's why you need your trusted system where you can easily put stuff into it. The easier you can throw stuff at it, the better. That's the first secret. The second is to make sure you process this stuff later.
The place you put stuff into is called an "Inbox" - a place where all of your thoughts, files, documents, notes, emails, voicemails... where all of your inputs go.
Watch this lesson on video at: http://ProductivityCourse.com/1
