You're listening to The Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized confidence coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the Internet.

I teach go-getters in life how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Hey guys, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to The Confidence Podcast. This is episode 520.

Man, I love today's topic. We're talking today about overthinking and overwhelm. How to create mental peace when you experience those.

Now, I wish I had had this content 10 years ago. I wish I had known what to do because my brain jams out on overthinking.

I get so wrapped into overwhelm. It is sort of wired into that achiever personality that I should always be doing more than I'm overwhelmed with the goals and the ideas.

Sometimes overwhelm feels good and I indulge in it. Sometimes it feels negative and I indulge in it because I want to almost have this.

I have this martyr syndrome that comes out that I'm working so hard and I want some credit for it.

Or we overwhelm with making a decision and we want it to be the perfect decision and then we create indecision.

And here's what I want to coach on today. I want you to know that the number one enemy in your life is delay.

And we delay our lives. We delay our change. We delay our potential. We delay making progress because we don't take enough action.

Now, why don't we take enough action because we indulge in making sure that the right action is happening. We overthink and we overwhelm ourselves and we overschedule ourselves and then we stretch ourselves to thin.

And we're mentally stretched thin and exhausted.

And here's the deal. The brain is the most powerful thing we have in the world and yet most of us are blocking ourselves from accessing its fullest capacity simply because we aren't managing well.

And so what's the result? Well, the result is you don't achieve as much as you want and your life feels good, but not great.

The key to breakthrough in your mental capacity is to learn how to cut through the fog and the weight of the overwhelm and overthinking.

And the good news is that it's easier to do than you think. So in today's episode, that's what we're going to be doing. I'm going to talk to you about overwhelm and overthinking.

What happens? Why we spin our wheels and indecision and how we're unintentionally delaying the lives that God created us to live that that creates this stagnancy and frustration.

And that one of the best things you can do is to just do things. Just do it now. Just do it now.

If you can start seeing yourself as somebody who is an action taker in the college of confidence, I coach my members and my students to see themselves in their self concept as an action taker as a massive action taker because if you can take action, then you don't spin out in delay that you don't have to make the perfect choice.

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