What if you could stop overthinking every choice?
Early this week I realized I felt like I was walking around with a constantly furrowed brow because of how hard my brain has been working and the amount of thinking, processing and analyzing I was doing about various situations in my current reality.
And at that point it occurred to me that my body was telling me that I just might be taking all of that thinking, processing and analyzing a little too far.
When we’re constantly second-guessing ourselves, overanalyzing our choices, and trying to make sure we’re doing everything correctly, it's worth considering if we’re actually making life heavier than it needs to be.
What if you could make a decision without running it through ten layers of doubt?
What if you could rest without having to convince yourself that you’ve earned it?
What if you could want something and let yourself want it, without immediately needing to figure out whether it’s the right thing to want?
What if you could enjoy something without needing it to be productive, meaningful, or teach you a lesson?
What if you could trust that you don’t have to figure everything out before you get to experience your life?
To me there is a freedom and lightness in that.
The freedom isn't always in making the perfect choice, but in knowing that you get to choose and that you can trust yourself with whatever comes next.
You might get it wrong.
You might change your mind.
You might make a choice that doesn’t work out the way you hoped.
That doesn’t mean you made the wrong choice.
It means you’re living life and letting yourself experience it.
Maybe your self-care could be the perfect place to experiment with this idea.
To notice what you need.
To make a choice.
And to trust yourself enough to let that choice be enough.
To stop analyzing every experience.
To stop turning every decision into a referendum on whether we’re doing life correctly.
To let ourselves experience something simply because we want to experience it.
To enjoy something without needing to earn it.
To learn from something without deciding that we had to learn a lesson before we were allowed to have it.
If you want to play with this idea a little, I’m making my Sustainable Self-Care: How to Create Habits That Actually Stick workshop recording available for three days, from August 20th–23rd.
It’s an opportunity to explore what it can look like to create self-care that actually fits your life—rather than adding another list of things you’re supposed to be doing, doubting whether you're doing right or questioning if there is a better way.
And maybe, in the process, it might be a way to feel a little lighter in your days.
WATCH THE SUSTAINABLE SELF-CARE WORKSHOP
And if the workshop resonates and you want to keep exploring this kind of work with me, you can also join the waitlist for the next round of the School of Self-Care, beginning September 9th.
