Easier said than done, right?
So, How?
It’s important for us to feel like we have choices in life when making decisions. We always want to make the right choice but the issue seems to be, we have way too many choices to begin with. This informational overload is overwhelming and stunts our decision making process.
We get in our own way instead of taking action and doing the thing we spent all that time discussing and thinking about or when we do take action, it’s too late.
It probably doesn’t help that I just told you to stop overthinking, because what’s the first thing you did? …Started thinking about how you don’t overthink…
Yes, you did…
You see overthinking a lot these these days and it’s easy for anyone to think they are the expert because of all the information they have available. I personally overthink sometimes when writing these blog posts (‘am I getting enough information in there, does it sound good, will my readers like it?’ etc.)
And in reality, I shouldn’t be over-editing my thoughts and instead just let it flow. That’s when the true answers come out, because you’re trusting your gut instinct, which is right.
Curiosity is wonderful and natural, just look at children and how open their minds are to new stimulus. However, we lose that imagination as we enter the formal education system because of too much information and a fear of being wrong. We don’t want to look stupid in front of others and fear giving the ‘wrong answer’, so we start trying to think about the ‘right’ answer and editing our creativity, instead of answering with our instincts.
Another part of overthinking is you may feel you know the right answer and when someone offers an opposing viewpoint, you automatically get your guard up and start thinking about ways to poke holes in the theory. Or showing that your way is better instead of letting others help because you may not be right – but, the internet is always right, isn’t it?
When I suggest eating meat and nuts to get lean, it makes folks look at me cross-eyed and I immediately get resistance from people who have never tried it. Then when they ask me what I do to ‘get the heart rate up’, I tell them I lift heavier weights faster. And I get an even nastier look, because they don’t get it. Those things fly in the face of conventional wisdom, and that’s when I see smoke pouring out of their brains thinking about and defending all of the bunkum they’ve heard over the years.
The traditions of what people think are fitness, I spend a lot of time de-bunking. We all already have pre-conceived notions about what weight-lifting is, what dieting is and what a healthy lifestyle is and we don’t want to believe something else is true because it’s easy to be conflicted with what’s actually the truth, until it’s right in front of your face after trying everything else…. ‘You want the Truth?…You can’t handle the truth!!!
But, the TRUTH is: If those things worked, we’d have a lot more fit healthy people who are assets to society, instead of the fat, lazy, entitled people who are liabilities and think the world owes them something.
So, to wrap this up I’ve done your thinking (and experimenting) for you.
Lifting heavy builds lean muscles, hardens bones, shed fats and cures almost everything that ails you. Eating meat and nuts won’t make you fat or harm your heart. And, until you can prove to me that you’ve tried it and not succeeded, your arguments against will fall on deaf ears.
Unless you personally have followed the program, or the diet or the protocol, or whatever the ‘thing’ is, exactly as the directions are written and exactly as you are instructed to do, then you will never know the truth and will keep thinking about all the ways to defend your poor choices. You have to do it for yourself…
Stop thinking (stop it) and get in the arena – Try it! …For longer than 2 weeks (2 years would be better) and actually put in the time. Show up and be quiet. No Moaning, No Complaining, No Changing. No OVERTHINKING…Do as you’re instructed and follow the process.
What do you think about that?