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Anaïs Nin - We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com Welcome to the Daily Quote, a podcast designed to
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  kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern for September 19th.
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  Today is National Overthinkers Day, and if you're already
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  wondering whether you qualify as an overthinker, you probably do.
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  If you're wondering whether wondering about whether you're
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  an overthinker means you're overthinking, well, welcome to
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  the club. This holiday exists to shine a
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  light on something. Millions of us struggle with the
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  tendency to analyze, reanalyze, and then analyze our analysis
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  until we're completely paralyzed by your own thoughts.
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  It's the mental loop where we replay conversations, second
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  guess decisions, and imagine 17 different scenarios for every
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  simple situation. Overthinking isn't inherently
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  bad. It shows we care that we're
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  thoughtful people who want to make good decisions.
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  But like many good traits, it becomes problematic when taken
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  to extremes. National Overthinkers Day is
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  both a gentle acknowledgement of this very human tendency and a
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  reminder that sometimes the best action is to stop thinking and
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  just act. And that brings us to today's
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  quote from Anise Nim, who once said we don't see things as they
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  are, we see things as we are. Nim's observation gets right to
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  the heart of why we overthink. When we're caught in that mental
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  spiral, we're not really analyzing the situation anymore.
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  We're analyzing our own fears and securities and past
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  experiences projected onto the present moment.
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  Think about the last time you overthought something.
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  Maybe it was a text that you sent that didn't get an
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  immediate response or a comment someone made that you kept
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  dissecting. In these moments, you weren't
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  seeing the situation clearly. You were seeing it through the
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  lens of your own anxieties and assumptions.
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  Person who didn't text back immediately might have been in a
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  meeting comment that seemed loaded with meaning might have
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  been completely innocent. But your overthinking brain
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  takes these neutral situations and colors them with your own
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  internal state and understood that true clarity comes from not
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  thinking harder, but from recognizing how our own
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  perspective shapes everything we see.
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  The antidote to overthinking isn't more analysis, it's
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  self-awareness about how our thoughts create our own reality.
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  As you navigate today, pay attention to moments when your
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  mind starts spinning in that familiar overthinking pattern.
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  When you catch yourself there, remember Nim's wisdom.
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  You might not be seeing the situation clearly.
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  Try this. When you notice yourself over
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  thinking, take a step back and ask what would this look like if
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  I weren't worried about it? Or how might someone else see
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  this situation? Sometimes the simplest
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  explanation is the right one, and the complexity is all in our
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  heads. Give yourself permission to act
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  on an incomplete. Give yourself permission to act
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  on incomplete information sometimes.
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  Not every decision needs to be perfect, and not every situation
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  needs to be fully analyzed to death.
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  That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew Mcgiven signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.