Have you, much like me, experienced the overwhelm of a ‘genius mindset’?

It’s one where having too many choices makes you freeze, and your interests keep piling up in your backyard like old furniture. You keep meaning to get to it, but it lies there – gathering dirt and moss.

It feels like there is hope, but the overwhelm of guilt seems to further act as an anchor to cement you position of non action.

I’ve been here not once, not twice, but what feels like everyday for the last three years.

It started as a tiny procrastination, “I can always take this dance class next month” – and I’m still waiting. Till I realised, this was a promise I made to myself years ago. And what remains of this is a tired guilt and the accompanying bitter resolve to do better.

But this was never about being bitter in the first place – wasn’t this about joyful discovery?

So here’s what I did with it – I gave up the ‘genius mindset’ for a more ‘genuine mindset’. I stopped thinking I needed to excel at all I was interested in and simply did them for their own sake.

When I shifted my perspective from leader to learner, I suddenly had more time and more fun doing things.

And just like that, in a year, my mental backyard starting becoming clean.