Alison Jones identified the simplest ritual for trying to declutter all the mess that's in our head. She discovered it in a moment of total chaos after she'd started her own business. You take a blank piece of paper, one that you could throw away so that you can write with this complete abandonment. And then you set a timer, six minutes, and you write without stopping,. Without pausing, without thinking, you let it flow as raw as you can.