@mattdawhit not sure if this will be relevant, and it's a bit of a cliche, but for me it's usually writing it down - listing the component parts of whatever it is on a page. Gets it physically out of my head and away over *there* somewhere, notebook as an external hard drive. And I can literally draw a line under it, close the page and go back to it later. Or not, depending how important it actually was in retrospect after writing it down!
A few bike photos from the last couple of days, windfarm and reservoir.. it's good getting far away from "it all" but without having to go too far from home.
I don't have a whole lot of #Christmas themed artwork (cos it's not #Halloween, is it? ๐) but here's an #illustration I created for Big Issue Magazine a couple of years back ๐ ๐