What is overthinking?

And how it can stager your progress.

Ash Blackmoore
2 min readFeb 14, 2020

I’m an overthinker…not like that. I am THE Overthinker!

That creates significant problems for me relatively often.

Most of the problems cames from the decision/action field. What should I do? How should I do it? Should I even do it? What’s happen if I fail? What’s happen if I succeed ( that funny one, because I can be cared away for 30 minutes and will dreaming instead of working and achieving desired success).

Overthinking is a naughty and cunning one. It’s pretending to be your friend.

“I mean, dude you’re working…”

“Am I?”

“Of course you do, dummy! You planning things! You create an outstanding plan on how to achieve your ultimate goal, and how not to fail while trying to do it,” in a whisper, “ instead of working on it…hehe.”

That how it’s happening. We can’t go blindly, without a plan. But instead of making a short, simple system and go into battle. We fear to fail. Instead of making a move, we start to build system after system. We make a plan about how to make a plan and so on.

So how to bring to the light that slippery thing?

That the tricky one, I should say! I have two answers to that.

First, it’s to take action because I doubt that you already haven’t at least some plan. Action will shake you up and allow failing. Through failing you gain wisdom, through the prism of wisdom, you see more options to act. Repeat.

Second, analyze your actions, behavior and make adjustments to plan. It sounds counterproductive because we again make plans, but let me explain.

Above I said that through action, your gain wisdom a.k.a. experience and knowledge. But it’s worth nothing if you don’t take time to think about what you learned. Maybe, the original plan was bad. Okay took 20 minutes on the weekend to adjust your strategy and return to the battle! Also, when you track your activity, you will see weak spots and eliminate them.

Conclusion

Overthinking is for the first glance is your ally. It disguises itself as “preparing for action thing” but in fact, you stack in an infinite loop of planning and preparation. To break that loop, take an action and make notes what you do.

But don’t forget to track your progression and make reasonable changes in the plan, so it will be suited better for help to achieve your goals.

Take action and have a nice day!

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