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Overthinking!!! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the good morning from the chicken coop, podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places for chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So today we are talking about overthinking things and how we
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  have a habitual situation of overthinking things as human
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  beings, we are just so prone to the overthinking and the
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  overanalyzing and the overall, we've got a new rooster crowing.
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  For those of you who are regular listeners, that's a new rooster
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  crowing, it's one of the little baby ones and he is Actually
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  really good boy, so it's kind of cool that he is growing now.
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  So anyway, back to my sorry, for a little distraction.
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  They wrote back to my overthinking.
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  So what happens when we get into that state of overthinking, lots
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  of things fire off in our head, lots of things take place and
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  lots of patterns start to jump out and for some of us
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  overthinking is an everyday occurrence.
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  We Just over think because that's what we do.
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  And it's just a part of our. Our normal everyday thing will
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  say, we're going to do something.
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  And then we start thinking about it, we second-guess ourselves
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  and we take forever to make decisions.
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  Now, there are some of us who will sit there and say, well I'm
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  not actually overthinking, I'm just, you know, analyzing I'm
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  going into a state of checking facts.
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  I'm going into lots of different things about my process.
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  Everybody has their way of talking.
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  But it becomes a problem when it goes on too long, it becomes a
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  problem. When it impeding your progress,
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  it becomes a an actual issue when you're not able to make a
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  decision and feel confident with it.
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  You know, there are tons and tons of studies that have been
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  done about this that people who think about something and want
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  to change their mind over thinking over thinking over,
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  think it are far less happy people than those who just make
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  it. Decision and stick with it and
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  just say that's it. It's done the decisions done.
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  I tend to be a very quick decision maker and I tend to be,
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  you know, okay with my decisions in fact, very happy with my
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  decisions. And I've always said, I have,
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  you know, in my family has made comments about the fact that you
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  make decisions very quickly, but the reality is, me overthinking.
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  Them does not help at all. So, if I have something to think
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  about and I really Want to give it time to process it.
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  I will tell you the best strategy I ever found is to set
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  a timeline and say, listen, I'm not qualified to make a decision
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  right now until my emotions come down.
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  I'm going to bring my emotions back to neutral.
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  I'm going to give myself 24 hours and then I'm going to make
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  a decision when I make the decision.
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  That's it, I'm done and then I stick with it, I don't try to
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  mess around with it because the more I mess around with it, the
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  more it gets in my way. So I want to share that with you
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  because I think that giving yourself a Time timeline is
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  super helpful. It's easy.
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  You can you know you don't even go past that timeline and then
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  boom, you know what, you can pull the trigger and not have to
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  overthink it when you feel yourself getting in a situation
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  of overthinking, you don't want to enter into analysis paralysis
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  because God knows that gets. You just on a plane to know
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  where and when you, when you recognize that you are in
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  analysis paralysis, like some of you might rank now be listening
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  to this. And saying, oh my god, I've been
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  in analysis. Paralysis about something as
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  simple as an item, you have to buy like, which one should I
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  get? If you got to get a new phone,
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  you're overanalyzing what phone you should get.
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  If you're going to buy, I know my husband and a lot,
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  overanalyzed a grill for year a year an entire year before he
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  made a decision about which one that he should get.
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  And I just will tell you it steals your joy when you are
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  allowing yourself to get into a state of analysis paralysis.
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  Alice and just keep going back and forth and you know, part of
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  the reason why that doesn't work just to give you a little bit of
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  insight is whatever you're focusing on it changes over
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  time. So let's just use the grill.
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  For example, you start looking at a grill and you take a long
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  time by the time, you admitted decision, guess what?
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  That Grill is now outdated, and there's another version of it.
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  So, you're stuck. You're like, okay, well, I made
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  a decision on this one, but now they came out with another one.
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  Now, I don't know what to do with myself and that just keeps
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  going so rather than put yourself into.
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  That position of overanalyzing overthinking and being stuck,
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  just recognize the person you are in this moment, is not the
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  person. You will be in the next moment
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  and the next day, the next hour. However, you want to look at it.
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  We're constantly evolving constantly growing.
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  So there is room for growth all the time.
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  The decision you make today, if you're not happy with it, in a
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  period of time later, you may make another decision.
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  It's a beautiful thing. You can decide something
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  different, you can move into something different and you can
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  change your mind often. That's why that's available to
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  us, don't get stuck in overthinking and because we get
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  stuck on permanency and most of the things in our life are not
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  permanent. And I we know that we don't like
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  that, but we know it. So consider all of this.
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  Be careful with it. Play with it and don't allow
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  yourself to get into that overthinking.
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  Paralysis and causing yourself to be stuck.
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  It's a waste of time. I hope you guys have a fantastic
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  day and I will see you all tomorrow.