Does this seem familiar to you?
You go through your day facing an overwhelming amount of decisions. Your brain shifts to overload. You’re doing so many things at once that your brain get scrambled (or fried, depending on how you like your eggs). You walk into a room and your brain can’t remember why you walked into the room in the first place!
Those times when you’re looking for your keys (which are probably in your hand), or your glasses (the ones sitting on your face) or your cell phone (the one you’re talking on as you yell to the person on the other line that you can’t find the phone)
It’s at this point that you start looking around for a nice glass of wine and a secluded place in which to drink it -someplace preferably off of the planet.
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Overthinking
Our instincts guide us to make good decisions. That’s a fact that has been sewn into our biology as human beings .
We dull that instinct every time we put off making decisions, because we aren’t sure the decision we’re making is the right one. Remember the phrase; for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. When you overthink things, you end up causing a few things to happen.************
Dulling the Senses
Listening to your inner you, that voice you hear in your head and feel in your gut. You know, the one that nags at you anytime you are weary of the options in front of you. That’s called your “gut instinct” and it can be your best friend when there are decisions that have to be made.
Think of your favorite scary movie, the one where you’re yelling at the character to not open that door or go down that dark hallway.
Do they listen to you? Nope.
They’re not listening to their gut, or you for that matter. They’re frantic and in a major state of panic and they make one bad decision after another. When they open that door or go down that hallway, it’s usually the last decision they make.
As always, it’s the lead who can keep it together long enough to survive. Okay, so my example is one in a fictional realm, but every day we make decisions that require some guidance of our inner voice.
It’s a skill you are born with but it’s also one you have to sharpen through practice. It’s true when they
When you overthink things, you are dulling your instincts. You stop yourself from making decisions, good or bad. You can become stuck in an inability to choose which then can and will stop you from living your best life (or any life at all, for that matter).
It’s not always easy to just decide, but the more you practice making firm decisions based on the info you’re presented with, the sharper your instincts will become.
Even if the decision turns out to be the wrong one, there are still lessons to be learned from the experience.
Yes, Man
There is a movie made with this title starring Jim Carey. Now, whether you’re a fan of his work or not, the movie does have an interesting premise about overthinking things. 
It centers around Carrey’s character who never says yes to anything and because of this, his life is one of drudgery. He has no social life, is barely holding on at work and his love-life is non-existent.
One night he attends (albeit begrudgingly a seminar where, through the power of suggestion, Carry can not overthink or refuse any offer he’s given. Towards the end of the night, he’s given away all his money, run out of gas and given his phone away to a complete stranger.
Now, I know what you’re thinking at this point, why the heck was this even a movie!?!
I’m glad you asked.
The night that Carry seemed to have lost everything, he also met the woman of his dreams and from this point on, his life is a series of ‘yeses’ surrounded by quirky and funny adventures.
He learned another language, bought a plane ticket to a random location, learned guitar, went to parties and met people he would never had met before he went on this trek of having to say ‘yes’ to everything for a full 24 hours.
The movie, of course, has a happy ending in pure Hollywood style, but here’s my take-away from it that I’d love to share with you:
“Saying ‘Yes” can be a good thing!”
You have the ability in your life to pick and choose what you say yes to, yet we usually reserve the word to get roped into things that aren’t fulfilling or enriching our lives, just ones we fill obligated to accept because we’re generally good people.
We’ll accept positions on boards and volunteer opportunities at the drop of a hat, but would never consider saying yes to taking guitar lessons for ourselves.
Go ahead, give it a try sometime, maybe even just once, you can use your ‘yes’ to do something crazy.
Who knows what you might discover about yourself.
