043: Analysis Paralysis: Stop Overthinking Your Goals
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Today, I'm discussing analysis paralysis. Overthinking our goals and our progress towards them can actually get in the way of success. I'm giving you 5 different tips for how you can overcome analysis paralysis… instead of letting it keep you stuck and acting as a roadblock between you and your big goals. I know it can be hard to take the first step (and even the next one after that!) but after today's episode, you'll feel more comfortable and ready to take real action.
What's In This Episode:
• Why we overanalyze and overthink our situations, causing us to feel confused and waste time.
• How your working memory impacts your performance and creativity during work.
• Find out which of the two types of decision-makers you are and how it affects you.
• 5 ways you can stop the analysis paralysis cycle right away.
• Learn how to become comfortable with taking action - big or small - so you can accomplish your goals.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:19.1 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquwell Press, and this is episode 43. |
| 0:29.2 | Today, we are talking about analysis paralysis and how it may actually be you that's holding |
| 0:36.8 | you back from your big goals and dreams. |
| 0:39.7 | But first, I want to make sure you know that today's episode is brought to you by FreshBooks. |
| 0:44.9 | If you are an entrepreneur, FreshBooks is the simplest way to be more productive, |
| 0:50.6 | get organized, and more importantly, get paid. |
| 0:54.4 | I'll be sharing a little bit more about fresh books a little bit later in the show. |
| 0:58.4 | But let's go ahead and get started by talking about what do I mean by analysis paralysis? |
| 1:04.7 | Analysis paralysis is the act of over-analyzing or overthinking a situation so that a decision or an action is never taken. |
| 1:16.0 | In effect, you're paralyzing the outcome. So you're becoming your own obstacle, your own |
| 1:21.9 | roadblock on your path to your big goals and dreams. So why do we do this? Why do we overanalyze and |
| 1:28.6 | overthink our situations? Well, with access to Google right at our fingertips, we can now |
| 1:34.5 | research every option available to us to no end, and we can spend hours and hours doing this, |
| 1:42.0 | only to find ourselves later on feeling more confused than when we started. |
| 1:46.9 | And then we don't know what the right choice is. What's the right decision? What should you do next? |
| 1:52.2 | The phrase paradox of choice was coined by psychologist Barry Schwartz to describe his findings |
| 1:59.0 | that while increased choices allows us to achieve objectively |
| 2:03.9 | better results, it also leads to greater anxiety, indecision, paralysis, and dissatisfaction. |
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