Insider's Outside Story

Hey! Please pause for a moment if you are overthinking. Yes, hold on for a while until you feel fresh to take up a new task or action. Hope you might have got this feedback at many junctures of your life.

Thoughtful question here is, whether you are able to distant overthinking mindset? Here we go, how to decide or come to know whether we are overthinking.

Please sit down and lay all the possible options/ solutions to a challenge you are facing right now. If you are able to dwell on the same problem more than 10 minutes then you are overthinking. Truly mind doesn't stay on a given topic more than 10 minutes. It works as a safety mechanism, so only when you are disguising your problem in several dimensions unnecessarily it takes the same path time and again.

So whenever you are facing a problem, disguise it to be having a solution already. Foremost possibility is the solution exists, but it could take some time or the right time hasn't arrived. Overthinking doesn't give any solutions, only design or approach based thinking gives outcome. Use pencil and paper to describe the challenge. Find who can assist or support and ask for help rather than dwelling with the duppy angel.

• Define the problem - Hit the cork
• Determine the causes- Ask Whys?
• Generate Ideas-Brainstorm/Interact
• Selection of ideas- Pros n Cons
• Take Action - Tuning and Implementing
• Feel Gratitude - On completion.

Are you an insider or outsider? An elusive answer is, be an insider, act and nurture like an outsider. Because the problem is always outside you or far from you. This approach will be handy during the intra team reviews, gap analysis and even personally. Let us learn to be an insider's outside.