What kind of overthinker are you?
Have you ever been lying in bed at night, thinking about the week ahead and an endless to-do list?
Where do I start? What’s the priority? Will I get through all of it?
Have you ever rewritten that list in your head? Same items, different order — as if the order was the thing standing between you and actually doing any of it?
Or started running a meeting that hasn’t happened yet? Landed a good answer. Then landed a better one. At almost midnight. For a meeting that isn’t until later in the week.
And then got up the next morning tired, and got it done anyway. Barely.
Here’s what I’ve learned: there isn’t one way to overthink. There are a few. Which one you do decides what actually helps — which is why “just relax” has never once worked on you.
Six questions. Ninety seconds. I’ll tell you which one you are, and give you the 2-minute practice built for the way your brain actually loops.
Okay. I know what you are.
Tell me where to send it and I’ll give you your type plus the 2-minute practice built for it — the one that actually works on your kind of loop, not the generic advice you’ve already ignored.
You’ll also get one quick practice every other Tuesday. Unsubscribe whenever. I won’t be weird about it.
Whatever your type is — you’re not broken. Your brain isn’t malfunctioning. It’s doing what it’s done since 7 this morning: working. It just never got told the day was over.
The 2 minutes you invest tonight will give you back hours you’re currently spending on problems that will still be there in the morning.
Rest isn’t a luxury or a reward you earn once the list is done. It’s a lifeline. And you cannot pour from an empty cup.
Every other Tuesday I’ll send you one more of these. Quick, practical, usable at your desk or in your car. No hour-long meditations. No app to download. No guilt.
Does your brain do this? Come tell me. I read every reply.