At Mind Coach, I often encounter high-achieving professional clients who feel they are always catching up. They own up to the fact that they can’t get ahead with anything new because they don’t have the time and space to develop strategies and see the big picture. They are constantly falling behind, trying to catch up. Even though they cannot take on more, they seem to always say yes, forcing themselves to work late into the night or on weekends. Yet they don’t let anyone know, because they feel they should be able to do things faster and better than anyone else, able to do it all alone without complaints.

This is due to a form of time blindness. We Turbo Thinkers© really struggle with time estimation, so much so that our magical thinking extends to the point of making us delusional.

At Mind Coach, I often encounter high-achieving professional clients who feel they are always catching up. They own up to the fact that they can’t get ahead with anything new because they don’t have the time and space to develop strategies and see the big picture. They are constantly falling behind, trying to catch up. Even though they cannot take on more, they seem to always say yes, forcing themselves to work late into the night or on weekends. Yet they don’t let anyone know, because they feel they should be able to do things faster and better than anyone else, able to do it all alone without complaints.

This is due to a form of time blindness. We Turbo Thinkers© really struggle with time estimation, so much so that our magical thinking extends to the point of making us delusional.

At Mind Coach, I often see a phenomenon I call idea hoarding in my high-achieving, Turbo-Thinker© clients. It may look like 87 open tabs crowding a screen. Or thoughts scribbled haphazardly on Post-it notes plastering the office walls. We are driven by a fear of losing something potentially valuable - an idea that might be useful or important one day.