I’m very familiar with my tendency to overthink and over plan. It’s what has made me a really good event manager. It’s a role I often fall back into because the skills necessary to do the job well come really naturally to me. In fact, I’ve been told that my events are some of the most seamless experiences guests have had. No detail is unthought of.

I pride myself on my attention to detail.

When I’m working on plans for whatever the thing is — thinking up new projects, figuring out the future, planning an event — my high-intensity, internal detail energy fires. My mind jumps around, copious notes are taken, spreadsheets become epic along with what become project plans.

I know there are tools and tricks for training a crazy brain that doesn’t know how to help itself, but I sure wish there was an actual switch.

Flick — quiet brain. Flick — meditation brain. Flick — contemplation brain. Flick — productive work brain.

Left to my own devices, I’ll catapult myself down a rabbit hole of back and forth wondering about this, that, the other thing and this again. It’s really hard to hone in on one theme and dig in. I imagine this is how it is for everyone. But if so, how does anything ever get done?