"5 Mistakes When You Try to Take Action..."

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#5 is probably my biggest downfall in, well, everything.

Do You Make These 5 Mistakes When You Try to Take Action?:

"1. Take your thoughts too seriously.

Thinking is often hyped up to be the best thing since sliced bread. In many cases it’s just holding you back. My perceptive is this: I am not my thoughts, I’m the observer of them. This allows me to not get too wrapped up in them. And to avoid thinking that what they are telling me is some kind of absolute truth...

2. Take your emotions too seriously...

3. Listen too intently to other people’s negative opinions...

4. Not creating enough energy within...

5. Overplan, overread, overthink.

Overdoing things tends to not be such a smashing idea. It may sound like an excellent idea, but in my experience it often just devolves into more confusion and fewer things getting done.

Overplanning is one way of doing this. To ensure that everything will work out perfectly, you work on devising the perfect plan. You can certainly make a plan that addresses potential problems that may show up along the way as you are implementing the plan. The thing is just that when you put your plan into action stuff you hadn’t thought about can happen...

Overreading is another way to hold yourself back. You figure that you should read one more book or article and then take action. Maybe tomorrow or next week. Reading too much can also cause quite a bit of confusion as different experts may hand out different advice on how you, for instance, can get in shape for the summer. So you read more and more to find the best way to get in shape.

And it feels good too, because you are working towards your goal and educating yourself. However, to get better actual results it might be more useful to just take in some basics, learn a little about some common mistakes that beginners make and then just go to the gym.

Overthinking is popular way to procrastinate. It can cost you a lot of time as you imagine future, negative scenarios that probably will never materialise in the real world. In my experience, getting stuck in overthinking things only makes them more complicated than they are and can easily pull you down into a negative thought spiral where taking action become more and more scary..."