The Overthinker's Guide to Joy | Are You Looking for Problems?

Ep #42: Are You Looking for Problems?

June 22, 2022

I recently had an enlightening conversation with one of my clients. She’s experiencing a huge uptick in sales, everything is feeling abundant for the first time, and she can finally breathe a sigh of relief that she’s meeting her business goals. And yet, she confessed that there was a nagging voice in the back of her head telling her not to get too comfortable.

Looking for problems, even when they haven’t presented themselves, is not unusual for overthinkers, over-worriers, and Type-A people. Left to its own devices, my brain does this exact thing too, so I know this habit very well. The narrative we live by sounds a lot like, “Sure, everything is going to plan, but, when is the other shoe going to drop?”

Tune in this week to discover why we overthinkers tend to have a habit of looking for problems where they aren’t any. I’m showing you why staying in this pattern is guaranteed to turn what might be a minor inconvenience into a bad week or month where everything seems to have gone awry, and how to turn this habit around. 

 

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What You Will Discover:

  • Why overthinkers usually have a habit of looking for problems, and why this is an issue.
  • 2 factors that trigger the habit of looking for problems where there aren’t any. 
  • How both good and bad circumstances can trigger this pattern.
  • Why we want to find problems, even when things are going well. 
  • How to stop self-sabotaging by looking for problems that have not presented themselves.


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