Often I’ll spend more time, much more, agonizing over a task and thinking about how much time or effort it will take than, when it comes right down to it, the time it actually takes to complete the task.
I can get easily overwhelmed by a cascade of thoughts I have in preparation to work through something that, when in the process of the activity, I realize was much simpler than I’d convoluted it to be. I do this often, I think and am really tired of dreaming about my work when dreams of vacations and other more lovely thoughts are waiting backstage.
A resolution: to not overthink and process (like American cheese) to death projects that are totally within my capacity.
Does everyone do this, endlessly obsess over what must be done?
Yes – I know I can knock out a story in less than a couple of hours if I have a deadline, and it has to be done. But, without a deadline, stories languish for a while, and they become these things I just can’t finish.
um, have you met my husband, MJ? he’s the original overthinker.
Absolutely I do. What a great resolution. I think I’ll use it too