I learned something today. About myself and about other people as well. I decided to choose self growth over making money, and that was a huge milestone in my step forward. I didn’t realize it until I was standing here, eating an apple, filling my water bottle, and not rushing around because at that moment I recognized I had chose creating a lifestyle. I just wanted to be over burning myself out and escaping into a world. I don’t want to merely exist. Someone asked me how I felt about therapy and talked about how they like to stay busy so that they can zone out and not have to worry about thinking. When I questioned them on why they don’t want to be able to have time to think, they said it was because if they start to think too much, then they will start to realize that they’re not on the trajectory that they want to be in this life…have you ever felt this way?  Let’s all stop overthinking every instance of our lives.

Stop Being an Overthinking Overthinker

They were overthinking all the things that they’ve done wrong up until this point because they’re not at the level they’d like to be at yet. I say yet because it’s just a process. Everyone always tells you to “trust the process,” but how many of us actually implement it?

We go on and on about how we wanna use self growth and change our mindsets. So, we listen to audiobooks and podcasts and watch some shorts on YouTube and read blogs like this one too pretend we’re on the right path, but are we actually doing the things that need to be done to get us to that point?

I’ve had a lot of conversations recently with my spouse about lifestyle change. Not meaning that I don’t like my lifestyle at this point, but that I want to make changes to improve it and continue improving it as I get older. We talked about how not every personality is the same and how we as humans differ in mindset, challenges and goals.

Just because you have someone as a life partner doesn’t mean that you can’t still accept responsibility to step up and tackle your own goals and dreams. You have the time, you have the energy, and you have the space…you just need to start making it a priority in your life instead of overthinking and putting it on the back burner.

Even if you just work on it five minutes a day, 10 minutes a day, or if you’re really ambitious, an hour a day, you can continue to make progress in those changes. Therefore, you will continue to see growth happen month after month, and then year after year.

Related: Personal Growth: The Ultimate Long Game

Breaking Free from Overthinking and Embracing Your Next Step

So as I write to you today, I think about my new status quo. Is it different from my old status quo? Or is it the same, and I’m just a little bit different at understanding it?

I consider how each and every one of us realizes at different points in life that we are on our own trajectory. Some days, we fill flooded by overwhelm and too filled to the brim with tasks and chores and to-do lists. We have so much on our plate that we wonder if we’ll ever be able to just “catch-up.”

If you’ve talked to enough people by now, you’ll probably agree that everyone else believes “you never really catch up.”
Well I said fooey to that, my friend.

Isn’t it time that we started accepting the responsibility of adulting and recognizing that we can really do anything we put our minds to? Isn’t it time that we stopped listening to the noise around us that keeps trying to pull us down into their bubble?

As we grow, we should continue to try to keep learning. Pushing ourselves to new levels and trying new things to level up our mental and physical growth. Is it fair to say that we need to overcome being boring so that new opportunities can open up to us?

No one wants to be stuck, but yet everyone always feels the need to stay in their comfort zone. Why??

The more we push outside of that bubble, the more we can float on up to the next level of consciousness that propels us into a new realm of thinking. It’s mind-blowing, beautiful and an amazing process.

So, are you tired of people telling you that you can’t have it all or be on the level you choose to be on? Are you tired of others assuming your status quo will never be attainable? Or are you ready to jump ship and choose your own path to be challenged and prepared for anything coming your way? I vote the latter.

In my own life, I’ve decided to starting embracing the need to accept myself more often for who I actually am. I’ve stopped caring (and overthinking) so much about other people’s negative energy and have tried to adapt by going with the flow more frequently. I don’t mind if others stress that “I’ll never really be ready for parenthood,” and that “I just need to accept that I’ll never be able to catch up.”

The coolest thing is knowing that I AM ready for certain things. Knowing deep down that I DO have the power to choose when the next chapters of my life take place. Life is just a series of choices, and knowing that I’m solely in charge of those choices gives me the freedom I need most to feel comfort in taking the next step.

What does your next step look like?

Enjoy this post?  Check out Embracing Vulnerability : The Art of Slowing Down and Seizing New Experiences

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Thank You For Reading “Calling All Overthinkers: What Is Your Status Quo?”

Thank you for reading today’s post about how to stop overthinking things in your life. What have you struggled with while overthinking? Let me know. If you have comments or ideas for our next post, let us know. Also be sure to check out our sister site Rooted Drawers.