107. Boycott Your Brain Biases in 2022

The Easily Distracted Entrepreneur

If you’re like a lot of business owners, you take a pause on Fridays and wonder, “Where did the week go?” We have so much going on and mayyyybe we don’t have a plan of action before we start our week.

The result is less productivity and a lot of feeling like we’re not making forward progress.

This is your brain bias in full action. We have so many “shoulds” and “have-tos” in our lives, and we start to look at our calendars and to-do lists with resentment. At the same time, I’ll bet you’re looking at someone else’s social media life and lamenting why that’s not your life too.

On this week’s episode, we’re talking all things brain bias--what’s happening inside your brain, why it’s happening, and how to protect yourself from things like time blindness, planning fallacy, and the bike shed effect. Because if you’re a business owner, whether you’re neurodiverse or not, you have these and more holding you back. And we want to make sure they’re less of a factor in 2022.

Listen in now! And don’t forget to sign up for the What’s On Your Plate workshop on Jan. 7, 2022 to make sure you’re not spreading yourself too thin.

Links and Resources:

• What’s On Your Plate workshop

Time Stamps:

[1:08] Speeding to the end of year

[1:30] Looking at plans for next year

[1:40] Important to take time to set vision and intentions for next year and make adjustments

[2:25] An exciting opportunity if you don’t have a plan

[3:17] Supporting neurodiverse people

[3:38] Optimizing your schedule challenge

[4:10] Many different brain biases

[5:22] Make your schedule something you’re looking forward to

[6:20] Shift how you’re looking at your business

[7:04] Look at all your commitments first

[7:25] Planning fallacy

[9:02] Counteracting planning fallacy

[10:22] Time blindness

[11:18] Normalizing brain bias & Negative reinforcements

[13:10] Bike Shed Effect

[14:48] If we’re spending so much time on things that don’t matter, we’re not getting to the goal

[15:09] Failing to plan = Planning to fail

[17:07] How meal planning can help

[17:52] Steven covey first things first

[19:48] How to support yourself