Earlier this week in one of Ali Abdaal's Part-Time Youtuber Academy sessions, I was introduced to taking a weekly Clarity Break.

What is a Clarity Break?

The concept is really simple.

A Clarity Break is a regularly scheduled time in your calendar to spend with yourself.

There are two rules:

1. You need to be outside of your regular place of work and somewhere where you won't be disturbed.

2. This is not catch-up time to work on outstanding tasks.

You define how regular you take the break and for how long - once a week for an hour, once a month for half a day - armed only with a pen and notebook.

Then you wait. As soon as ideas start popping up in your head, your pen and notebook come in handy and you start to write.

What happened on my first Clarity Break?

I scheduled my first Clarity Break for this morning between 8-9am.

I walked to my local park, a nice quiet location with benches overlooking a pond. Perfect.

After sitting down, I set a timer for 60 minutes and my first official Clarity Break started.

It took about 2 minutes before I was writing furiously in my notebook. Loads of ideas were popping up in my head.

From buying a portfolio of Shopify stores and using them to sponsor my YouTube channel to writing individual emails to my newsletter subscribers asking how I can best serve them.

I filled 3 pages full of ideas in my notebook.

Later this week I'll transfer them to my Idea List in Notion, where they will become 'slow burns' that I can develop over time and call on when I'm ready to start a new project.

I can't believe how useful my Clarity Break was.

It's on my calendar now and will become a weekly practice.

Thanks, Ali