The Clarity System You Need with Mike Williams
Mike Williams built his whole approach on one idea: clarity starts with the right question, not a better answer, and most overwhelm clears the second you write down what's on your mind and name one thing you can actually do next.
▶ Watch the full episode with Mike Williams for deeper context on how to approach these questionsDump What's On Your Mind
Take two minutes and write down everything that's been nagging at you lately, the worries, the half-finished things, the stuff you keep meaning to deal with. What's actually rattling around in there?
The Statement Underneath
Pick the heaviest item from your list. Underneath it there's usually a flat thing you keep telling yourself, a line that sounds final and shuts the door. Write that line exactly the way you say it in your head.
Turn It Into A Question
A statement is just a poorly worded question, and a statement shuts the door while a question opens one. If you rewrote that line as a real question you'd have to sit with for a few weeks, what would you ask?
Which You Owns This
Take the question you just wrote in prompt three. You play a lot of parts, the parent, the partner, the worker, the friend, the one looking after your own body and mind. Which of those parts does this question really belong to, and is that part getting too little of you right now?
The One Shot
Forget the whole mountain. If someone watched you for the next ten minutes, what's the single smallest thing they'd see you do that pushes this forward, the call, the text, the page, the shoes by the door?