How we looking not overthinking we are not overthinking today.
Let tell you let's have a chat about Overthinking the art of you creating problems that were never there.
All making things ten times harder Then they need to be for yourself and if you're watching this video.
I understand the struggles More than a lot of people with overthinking, it almost stopped me from creating this entire YouTube channel that you're watching.
Now, it almost stopped me from filming this very video.
I overthink is the lighting good, is the knowledge going to be valuable, am I having a good hair day?
All the same things that you think about.
It's my one thing I overthink all the time.
So in this video I want to give you five tips that will really help you stop overthinking.
One note before we get rocking here, I think it's important to differentiate between two main types of overthinking, okay?
is where people overthink the past.
You're dwelling a lot in things you could have done differently or you beat yourself up, or constantly go back and replay conversations.
Now, that's one type of overthinking that's very valid.
However, these tips aren't necessarily talking about that type.
What I want to address is probably the more common and chronic form that you experience,
you thinking not about your past, but about your future.
How should I approach this?
And you take one thing away from this video, I want it to be this.
Overthinking is not a knowledge or information.
You will never solve your overthinking with more information or more knowledge.
You know what will and is the only way to solve your overthinking?
These are my five best tips about what works.
Tip number one, take how we describe overthinking.
It has a very neurotic fast-paced energy, doesn't it?
The only way to change that fast-paced energy is not to do more thinking and more fast-paced and more cramming.
The way to get out of it is to slow down.
You have to let your nervous system chill out.
People label overthinking a lot and they say, well, I just can't get out of my head.
I'm overthinking all the time.
Maybe I'm chronically anxious.
So you go in and you tell a psychiatrist this, they'll give you anti-anxiety meds, things like Xanax success.
That's why people feel normal on them.
800 days ago when I was drinking all the time, that was the only thing that helped me slow down.
And if you know anything about alcohol, it literally numbs your prefrontal cortex.
It slows you down so you feel like you're not overthinking.
What do most people do when they're overthinking?
They stay in bed and doom scroll,
thinking that consuming more information or techniques or tips or just like cramming our brain with more will make us produce more.
It's like fighting fire with fire.
because now instead of your own thoughts, you have thoughts and opinions of hundreds and thousands of other people.
They hype themselves up with just tons of caffeine.
Nothing wrong with caffeine,
I use it as well, but I've found that when I'm overthinking the more caffeine I have, the more than eroticism goes up, right?
the faster things speed up.
So remember with this tip,
we're not trying to do things that speed us up faster, faster, faster, we're actually trying to do the opposites, instead of fire with fire.
fire with water balancing it out.
So what are some examples of these going for a long walk?
If you went on a walk for an hour and you come back tell me you don't feel different by the end of that.
And I'm not talking you go for a walk and you know you're cramming a podcast you know or an audiobook so you can learn and
memorize information and tactic.
No you're just going for a walk for an hour without Can you even do that?
Or is that too unbearable?
Amazing for bringing you out of your head into your body.
I get up every single morning.
The very first thing I do.
Don't get up for 15 minutes.
Those three things right there.
If you just implemented those three for a week, I guarantee your overthinking would be way better.
So let's get into this next point for you.
Remember that overthinking is an action, not an information problem.
And so one of the ways I've been able to get over and beyond overthinking has been to focus on momentum.
Because if you know anything about or what you learned in middle school.
An in motion stays in motion, less acted upon by an outside force.
So if you can just focus on getting some momentum, watch how the overt thinking starts to go away because you're building on wins.
When was first struggling to get started on YouTube, I noticed how hard it was to sit down and film videos.
So what I would do is say, I don't have to film a video, but I'm just going to set up the shot.
And I found that in setting up the shot momentum instead of just staying stuck, that was motivating enough.
And I would sit down and say, okay, I'm going to get the first hook out.
And I don't have to finish.
doesn't have to be perfect.
I even have to like make a video.
I'm just gonna set things up.
Or I'm just gonna take my camera out and film around the house for some b-roll shots.
I don't have to use them.
So my question to you is how can you find a way to not view this as either I'm taking action or I'm staying stuck.
And if I'm taking action or I'm taking I have to finish it.
Can you make momentum just going to the gym, checking in and doing five minutes?
Instead of I have to go to the gym and do this hour and a half.
long leg destroyer workout that I saw some fitness influencer do.
Your momentum is just going to the gym.
You want to write that paper and you're overthinking on how to do it.
Well, you're probably overthinking, how are these paragraphs going to link together?
Is that even the right thing?
Your momentum, instead of staring at the blank cursor overthinking.
thinking is just to write the headline.
this is something when I write, I, to get momentum, I don't just sit and read and research and, you know, do the easy thing.
I'm like, okay, let me, like, how can I get momentum here?
I start at the most interesting part.
Instead of the headline or the first paragraph, I'll start like midway through, at the point I'm most excited about.
And object in motion stays in motion.
And pretty soon what could have been a day where you procrastinate doing everything, you to notice that you have momentum to do things.
This can also be unrelated.
Like you just getting momentum by cleaning your house or washing one dish or cleaning one section of your room.
Doing something that puts you into action is one of the easiest ways to get out of overthinking and start moving.
Real quick, if you're someone who's looking to reinvent yourself, create the 2.0U in 10 weeks, I'll link down below our Metamorphic program.
We've helped 850 people just like you go from just,
you know, kind passively watching YouTube videos to really putting in the work and getting the results they want.
No but if you're into that, I'll link down below where you can learn more.
Tip number three, this next one is allowing yourself Okay, this is not just some BS here.
This is something I wrote down.
This has been my mantra the last couple weeks when we Overthink it's normally because we think it has to be perfect and great and amazing
Or we have to look a certain way or perform and it has to be this mind-blowing thing
That all makes us take ourselves too seriously And that makes us very fragile and if you look at the people you look crushing it,
Which no matter what happens, I'll be okay.
Cause remember like overthinking, put to an anxiety.
It's fight or flight or freeze.
Oftentimes it's being frozen.
Frozen by fear, analysis, paralysis, literally moving.
And I'm not trying to sound harsh here, but when you're stuck in- frozen you are afraid.
You're afraid that if you take action it's going to suck or people are gonna find out that you're not as smart as you
say you are or maybe you're gonna get embarrassed or rejected.
Those are the fears that keep us thinking.
This is just allowing yourself to suck.
and detaching from how you have to look from how you have to sound from how
your result have to be taking the pressure off yourself saying okay I'm allowed to
suck I'm allowed to mess up I'm allowed to be human And it doesn't have to be perfect.
I don't have to be perfect.
Tip number four, there was an old Jim Rohn video I was watching.
I'll do my best Jim Rohn impersonation for you, okay?
You go up and you get one out of 10 sales.
You have a 10% close rate.
If you go up and you get two out of 10 sales, you have 20%.
at is that the more rejection you get, the more success you will eventually get because you improve, you get better.
If you look at who has the most success in dating, people who are willing to shoot their shot, get rejected.
In business, people who are willing to put themselves out there, be cringe.
It's changing your relationship to rejection.
That if I get rejected, or something doesn't go my way, it's not going to break you.
Your biggest fear should not be rejection.
you're gonna regret not taking action far more
than the things you took action on and the times you look stupid or the times you got rejected.
For every one person that regrets starting a business, there's a thousand people who look back on their life regret not starting one.
For every one person who gets rejected and dating,
there's a thousand people who regret not shooting their shot and approaching that person they found attractive or voicing their intentions to someone.
is fearing inaction more than action, fearing staying in paralysis more than failure.
Fearing the failure of regret more than the failure of rejection.
More rejection means more success.
That's true in dating, that's true in business, that's true in life.
There's two primary Ways to set goals.
The first is result based.
I want to lose 10 pounds.
I want to make a hundred thousand dollars I want to get a million YouTube subscribers.
That's a result That sets a target in a north star to move towards so yeah
That's okay because at least you have a direction
But the downside of that is now that's black or white now you hit it or you don't now you're a pass or a failure
That can be very demotivating.
So what I actually like to do is set that sure But also set what are called goals.
These are, instead of I want to lose 10 pounds, I want to go to the gym two or three times a week.
I want to get a million subscribers.
Action I to upload five videos a week no matter what.
I want to finish this paper and get an A versus I want to write a hundred words a day, a thousand words a day.
It's huge problem in this industry of just being obsessed with results goals instead of actions and processes.
When you're overthinking, you're trapped in result land.
I have to do this and it has to get me that, which is attachment.
that whole process is overthinking and attachment to the results.
So I think if you're able to step back and flip and say, ah, I'm going after results.
What is the process or the action that I can do?
That is way more attainable in your control and easier for you to do.
Literally, try it right now.
Like, take the thing you're overthinking on that you want to do.
You just wanna make some art.
You wanna make some badass videos and post them online.
People get all in their head with this.
well, okay, I'm gonna post and what's my niche and okay, I gotta start a business on this
thing and what's my product and who's my ideal avatar?
Who's the person I'm talking to?
Who cares about the results right now?
I just want to upload a video and see if I like it Yeah,
I just want to make one video a week and have it as a creative outlet for my voice cuz you know what we might get into
the of making vids and find out we don't actually like it.
So instead of like wasting three years before we film one video,
we might just go there and try it and see if we even like it.
and save ourselves three years of overthinking.
I can't tell you how many people I've coached on this, like instead of going for results, focus on action and process.
Now, this is the easiest point, this is the mantra.
If you're overthinking, I want you to focus on one thing.
It's an easy thing to make things overcomplicated and complex.
The hard thing to do is to make things simple.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
When you're preventing yourself and holding yourself back from doing something, it's because you are attached to it being as good and perfect as possible.
Perfection is a very lazy way to live life.
It's lazy thing to be like some people take pride in.
I overthink cuz Other people are fine with sloppin you know, but me my standards.
I'm just so so perfect I'm exaggerating,
but that's like people take pride in that That is the laziest thing it can be is being a perfectionist because that gives you an excuse to not produce much
It gives you an to take your sweet time that gives you an excuse to second guess and question everything and also judge other people.
My standards are better than that.
Can you believe he posted that?
Can you believe how cringe that is?
I also find that perfectionists are some of the most judgmental people.
They're projecting their own judgments that they put on their work onto other people.
Instead of being a perfectionist, be a doer.
There's a saying done is better than perfect because perfect never gets done.
The great example is going in for an interview.
Like if you over prepare for an interview, you ever done that?
And show up to the interview and it's like dry mouth or you're like already tired talking about it.
It sucks all the humanness out of you if you...
At the end of the day, no one cares how much time and thought you put into something.
They only care about the results and the product.
I to myself here that I'll put in here.
This is my intention with this year is like I overthink the hell out of these videos because I want them to be valuable.
Like, I don't want people to click on a video and feel like it's, I don't know, I think
it comes from me really respecting your time and that if I'm going to post and people are going to spend 15,
20 minutes hour long, I want them to walk away with something.
But as I've thought about this and shifted my approach and thought about looking content I watch that impacts me the most,
it's not always just this like regurgitated overthought like chat GPT download of information to someone.
Just like vomiting just like 20 steps onto them.
Okay, there's 15 things we can know to be productive.
of clicking off of those videos.
I know if you do, but like I find myself walking away from that type of content tired because it causes you to overthink.
And it's almost like seeking out the solutions to our problems is making them worse.
This year, I'm really trying to be more about the energy and the emotional value.
So instead of just Logical value, that's one form.
It's more about the connection and more just about the vibe
and my point here for throwing this in here is when I overthink and I make something about just value and I just say,
okay, like what's the brain dump download?
But when I'm able to just sit down and create from the heart.
and getting a flow state and that takes a while that can take 15 30 minutes but
like when it's finally there and you're connecting with people and you're
vibing that's the stuff that people crave and want at least in my opinion and that's how I consume now.
Now I'm curious I've given you a lot of my advice for overthinking but you all have some banger quotes and one-liners.
I want you to post your best piece of advice in the comments below for overthinking.
What have you learned from your experience?
Not what you've heard, but like what actually works for you?
Post that in the comment below in as short or concise way as possible so we can just like fill this comment thread with all
Like, subscribe if you're not already.
Thank you so much for being here.
I'll link up right here, five questions that you can ask if you're into introspection to coach yourself.
It's perfect to up to this.
I'll see you in the next video.
Stop settling, start living.