4 Reasons Why Action Trumps Overthinking: Moving Forward in Life is Our Only Option

One of the reasons we have a difficult time moving forward in life sometimes is this nagging voice of self-doubt in our head. Whispering nothing but debilitating thoughts into our subconscious, we get nervous about taking action and delay…and delay. Until it’s too late. As I reflect at my own experience of trying to deal with uncertainty in life, I realize that no matter how hard I think, some new surprise always comes out of nowhere, causing me to rethink […]

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12 Reasons to Embrace the Chaos and Move Forward in Life

“What’s the point?”, I sometimes ask myself. It’s such an uncertain world out there. I mean, “It all looks so bleak. Why should I even bother to try to move forward in life or my career? Why should I try to improve my circumstances when I don’t think it will lead to anywhere? Why should I try anything in this crazy, uncertain, unpredictable and difficult environment?” Over the last few years as I have worked through trying to deal with […]

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6 Ways to Know You Had a Good Day

Sometimes we try to go to sleep and we can’t. We wonder if our day was a good one. I’ve wondered it a number of times hours on end. I looked back at the times when I thought I had a really good day and made a realization…just as a child wants to repeat a wonderous experience again and again…I want that again and again. So, Type A that I am…I made a list. Below is a list of ways […]

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Move Forward Because One Thing Always Leads to Another

The kids were driving me crazy! I needed to get their energy expressed somehow but it was very windy and cold outside. I just couldn’t take their whining anymore and needed some air. So I took them for their first ever, “run” in a nearby park. By chance, I grabbed some bread on our way out, for the deer at the petting zoo which I thought we might visit on the way back from the run. Off we went for […]

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5 Lessons I Learned on How to Stop Overthinking

The overthinking chatter going on inside my head is one of the biggest problems I struggle with as I learn to deal with uncertainty of life and the unpredictability of a career.  Normally, it’s fine to have a pro/con debate about choices you want to make in life but so often I’ve found the overthinking to be associated with paralyzing negative thoughts.  “No, you can’t do that!”, “that’s just not logical or reasonable” or “why take a chance?”, “stop dreaming […]

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