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Hi, I'm Kristen and I'm an overthinker.
I overthink 98% of things. I'm overthinking this blog post right now. What do I want to say? Will anyone care? What percentage of things do I overthink? 99% seems too high, but it's definitely more than 96%. I rewrote that sentence about four times. I'm writing this because, as I've been reflecting over the past several months (and I call it reflecting instead of thinking because I mostly do it while staring at my reflection in my kitchen window), I need to stop overthinking. More than that, I need to let go of the ingrained beliefs and behaviors that cause me to overthink - the perfectionism, self-doubt, fear of rejection - everything that fuels the inner critic that is telling me right now I should delete this post, close my laptop, and do anything else because my words aren't clever, my thoughts aren't unique, and no one will give two shits what this post says unless it is absolutely flawless. I know my inner critic's a nasty dumb bitch who's full of shit. My inner badass, the one who's forcing me to keep typing, is telling me so. She's whispering in my ear, with those sexy red lips, that it doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be real. She's reminding me that I have nothing to lose by putting myself out there. It's a blog post, for Christ's sake - no one reads blogs anymore. But I want to write one. I want to write one as a space for me to stop overthinking and start trusting myself. A place where I can give myself permission to publicly acknowledge that I'm not perfect. That somedays I'm brilliant and insightful and funny and some days I can't put two coherent words together. And that both are absolutely fine. I want to create a gym where I can work my confidence like a muscle, until it can squash that inner critic like a fucking She-Hulk smash. So I'll write. 20 minutes a day, every day. My first 20 minutes are almost up, and already I'm overthinking. How should I end it? Better be something smart and incisive, something that will leave them wanting more. But this is just the start, not the end, so maybe it's best to leave it unfinished. Comments are closed.
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