Don’t Get Stuck in Overthinking Mode
Many big bosses are fantastic thinkers. They come up with awesome ideas and put them into action. But here’s the catch – the results can be good or bad. It’s tough to always hit the jackpot.
As your business grows, the pressure to make the right choices piles up. People often don’t see all the mistakes made when the business was just starting.
Expectations rise because you’ve done great things before. The problem is, the more you achieve, the less risk you’re willing to take.
This leads to overthinking. You believe that thinking harder will lead to better decisions and better results. But here’s the truth: overthinking just messes things up. When you plan your next moves, each step should be built on what has already worked, like building one layer on top of another.
Building on shaky ideas instead of proven ones is like building a house of cards. It might look good, but it can easily fall apart. You end up wasting time with all that extra thinking – not very helpful.
Imagine building your business like a pyramid. The green part is what you’ve already built, and it went through lots of changes before it worked right. Nobody usually sees that part; they only see the success.
Instead of just doing what works, you start overthinking. You feel like time is running out, and you try too many things in your head without testing them.
I catch myself doing this a lot:
- Celebrate past success.
- Plan to make the business ten times bigger.
- Start new products without remembering it took many tries to get the first one right.
- Spend too much time thinking about future products before the current one proves itself.
- Get disappointed when the new product doesn’t go as planned.
- Stop thinking about the future and just focus on fixing the current product.
- Repeat the process and keep making the first product even better.
My point is simple: just because you did something right once doesn’t mean you’ll always get it right. You need to keep trying, learning, and taking action. So, stop overthinking and start doing.
Cheers,
Arav Donda
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