Stop Overthinking ~ Start Excelling #1

Signs you’re overthinking

• You avoid making decisions. The fear of choosing wrong, keeps you from deciding.
• You struggle to sleep. Your brain won’t shut off at night, leaving you tossing and turning.
• You start second guessing every decision. Even after deciding you keep wondering if it was the right decision.

Tips to stop overthinking

• Meditate to cultivate inner peace.
• Only focus on what you can control. Let everything else go.
• Empty your brain with journaling, it’s better out of your mind than in.
• Avoid dwelling on the past.

Ways to stop overthinking

Give yourself time to calm down and relax before addressing the situation causing you to overthink.  Breathe, calm down and relax before addressing the situation again.

Get those thoughts out of your head and onto paper. It’s helpful to write your thoughts when you’re overthinking. It can help clear your head and allow you to see the situation more clearly.

Talking to someone that you really trust about your situation,  getting their perceptive can help you see things more clearly.

Challenge those negative thoughts with positive self talk affirmations about your strengths.

Take action when possible address the problem of overthinking.

Calm your mind

I can’t control ~ other people’s reactions, uncertain outcomes.

I can control ~ my choices, the stories I tell myself.

Overthinking affirmations

I am not my thoughts.

It’s okay if I don’t have all the answers.

I don’t have to solve everything right now.

Focus on the present instead of the future.

I can handle whatever happens next.

Worrying about the future won’t prevent bad things from happening.

Reminder

You can’t stop every thought, but you can choose which one’s stays. With practice you can change how you respond to it, that’s where calm begins.

If you can overthink the worst you can overthink the best.

Thank you for visiting, T’😊