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Not So Breakfast Show - Midweek Mini: Focus Check-In (The Dump Day Follow-Up)

A quick midweek pause to audit where your attention actually is - and whether it's serving you or sabotaging you.

The Core Question

"Where is my focus right now?"

There's usually something in your brain controlling your attention, whether you're aware of it or not.

IS THIS SERVING ME?

Your focus is currently on something. Maybe it's:

• A problem you can't solve
• An opportunity you're pursuing
• A worry you can't control
• A skill you're developing
• A situation that keeps repeating

Ask: Is this focus helping me or hurting me right now?

Option 1: Dump the Focus Maybe you're focusing on something that doesn't deserve your mental bandwidth right now. Write it down. Get it out of your head. Move on with the rest of the week.

Option 2: Dump Everything Else Maybe what you're focusing on IS hyper-important, but you're not giving it the urgency it deserves because you're carrying too much other stuff. Dump the clutter so you can actually focus on what matters.

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Not So Breakfast Show - Episode 250: Always Be Learning (ABL) - And Why Sacha Wears the Same Outfit All Week

Sacha's wearing the same outfit she wore yesterday (and will wear all week) following the Steve Jobs/Angela Merkel/Hillary Clinton uniform approach to reduce decision fatigue. Ish just learned this today after recording back-to-back sessions. This kicks off a conversation about ABL - Always Be Learning - exploring how our brains work, what we're teaching ourselves without realising it, and why the reticular activation system means you see pregnant women everywhere when you're pregnant.

Main Topics

• Two Types of Learning -- Acquiring new knowledge (capital of Azerbaijan) vs. learning about your own behavior (what systems help you be more effective)
• The Reticular Activation System (RAS) -- Your brain's filter that focuses on what matters to you. Buy a Toyota RAV4? Suddenly they're everywhere. Get pregnant? Only see pregnant women. Focus on opportunities? Your brain finds them.
• Who Taught You to Think Like That? -- Unexamined beliefs about surnames, gender roles, career paths. The unexplored assumptions we carry without questioning where they came from.
• Micro-Moments of Learning -- 30-day deep dives on specific skills, tiny steps toward discomfort (wearing brighter shirt, asking shop assistant about their day, box jumps with one riser at a time)

The universe keeps presenting the same problem over and over until you learn the lesson.

If these things "always happen" - what's the pattern you're supposed to recognise and change?

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Midweek Mini: Put Out the Match, Not the Bushfire

Hope is not a strategy. When you see that little flare of trouble in your team, process, or system, and you think "I hope that dies out on its own" - that's the moment to act. Three weeks later when you're fighting a bushfire, you'll wish you'd dealt with the match.

The Core Principle

Small conversations feel awkward because you're bringing up something that seems minor. But issues escalate quickly:

• Employee giving you a little bit of tone
• Meeting disagreement that wasn't handled well
• Process starting to break down
• Relationship tension beginning to show

Why We Avoid the Match

• Feels too small to address
• Might make things weird
• Hope it resolves itself
• Don't want to seem petty
• Busy with bigger fires