Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inkwell Press, a podcast focused on finding success and happiness through the power of productivity.

Each season, Tanya focuses on specific strategies to help you discover your own priorities and purpose.

Season 6 is all about turning your stumbling blocks into starting blocks.

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Hello, hello everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquell Press,

and this is episode 73.

Today's episode is brought to you by, well, me.

I'm offering a free training, and I'm going to be sharing a little bit more about that

later on in the episode.

But let's go ahead and dive into today's topic, which is to stop overthinking and start taking action.

Now, as you know, all season long, we've been talking about taking our stumbling blocks

and turning them into starting blocks. And to me, overthinking or analysis paralysis is one

of those things that so many people do and they don't even realize they're doing it.

It's because we secretly hope that success will be easy and that if we plan out every single

detail beforehand, we won't have anything to worry about. But truthfully, there's always going to be

problems. There's always going to be struggles, there's always going to be struggles,

and there's always going to be fires to put out.

Many people overthink decisions until they become more of a burden than a choice.

By putting it off, we create more stress and more work for ourselves.

You see, overthinking is a form of procrastination. It causes delays.

This type of procrastination is a choice. We don't want to overplan to the point of delaying action.

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