How to stop overthinking with a help of a toothbrush?

Hey,

It's Alex.

Overthinking is such a frustrating thing.

It's one of the major reasons that can prevent us from taking actions.

Especially new actions…

Instead of going out and focusing on what we want to do, we get stuck in our heads (including me).

I wasted years of my life on the wrong goals…

Let me show you how you can be smarter than me and learn how to overcome overthinking and do MORE with LESS.

(With a story that I shared yesterday… But this time from a different angle)

A coffee shop that became my “Golden Cage”

I was sitting in my favorite coffee shop…

Looking at my screen and doing the same thing over and over again. Checking Facebook campaigns of my client and trying to optimize them.

Over and over again. Every day. Analyzing the same numbers. Optimizing the same process.

Thinking and overthinking.

You see… I was making a great amount of money for my online marketing skills.

But inside, I was suffering...

I didn't feel any joy anymore from what I was doing.

I was lying to myself that everything was okay.

When I was going to the coffee shop, I always imagined myself in a different reality.

Different work, different people around me…

I wanted to do something more connected to people. To have a more social lifestyle and be less isolated in front of the screen.

But I was stuck.

I was stuck in my head.

I didn't know what exactly I should do, and I didn't know how to find the answer.

With each new idea that came to my mind, instead of taking action, I was overthinking it and not even trying.

I felt burned out. I couldn't see myself working anymore without a purpose that I would feel connected.

And still... I wasn't doing any practical actions to change something.

Instead of researching what I could study.

What could be the first step that would create a better reality for me.

I was wasting my time on social media and Netflix.

I was numbing my pain.

The pain of boredom, loneliness, and lack of meaning in life in general.

The thing is...

When you lack money, you don't care about anything else except just surviving.

When you have enough of it, you start looking for meaning.

And if you can't find it around you or in your job.

Pain is inevitable.

All this unhealthy lifestyle and isolation brought me to an emotional breakdown.

After the emotional breakdown came degradation.

Only after I changed my country, traveled, and met a new partner, I started to feel a new meaning.

I got my new meaning through a war with myself.

It wasn't healthy, and I wasted lots of money and time during this process.

I think you can do better than me.

You know why it took me such a long time to change?

To realize that 90% of what I’m doing is never gonna bring me happiness?

I was overthinking.

• Instead of doing new things that could make my life better.

• Instead of making new decisions that could open doors.

I would self-sabotage any possibility for a change.

It took me 2 years to decide to start learning psychology and coaching.

3 years creating a solo project without any business partner.

I can give dozens of examples of when, instead of taking the first step, I was overthinking it and then did nothing.

You see… Overthinking comes from our fears.

A fear that we will feel the pain of change.

So, we spend most of our lives afraid of making these brave decisions, even though deep inside, we know they can make us happier.

We have no clue how things could actually be if we weren't so afraid.

We think too much and DO too little.

We prevent ourselves from doing more by overthinking, and in the end, we do less…

So the next time you enter your overthinking mode again, take your toothbrush to your job.

Why?

Because It's the silliest thing you can do, taking a toothbrush with you.

(I mean just the toothbrush, without toothpaste)

For what purpose?

This toothbrush is going to remind you how silly we all can be.

An anchor to the idea…

That there is no logic in taking only a toothbrush with you and walking with it during the day.

Exactly like there is no logic in overthinking everything instead of taking action and learning from the process itself.

Do more.

Think less.

Would you like to stop overthinking and do more?

If yes, consider going through some coaching with me.

Interested?

Reply to this email with: “I’m interested”.

And here’s what’s gonna happen:

1. You send a message

2. I ask you a question

3. You answer

4. I send you some details…

And we start working together and you’ll finally start to see a change.