30 December 2025
20 Sentences to Stop Overthinking by Nir Eyal - Chris Williamson
  1.  I don't need certainty to act.
  2. If it's reversible, I decide fast.
  3. I choose one next step, not ten.
  4. I don't solve feelings; I surf them.
  5. My thoughts are not instructions.
  6. Action creates clarity, not thought.
  7. I write it down so my brain can rest.
  8. I'm allowed to move with partial info.
  9. I give myself a deadline, then choose.
  10. I ask, "What's the next visible action?"
  11. I schedule thinking so that I don't spiral.
  12. I trade rumination for one small experiment.
  13. I let future-me correct, not present-me freeze.
  14. I'm aiming for progress, not the perfect plan.
  15. I ask, "What would this look like if it were easy?"
  16. I accept that some questions stay open while I move.
  17. I notice loops and ask, Is this helping or just hindering?"
  18. I'm the kind of person who stops rehearsing and starts doing.
  19. If it won't matter in 5 years, it doesn't get this much brainspace.
  20. I'd rather be roughly right in motion than stuck "perfecting" ideas.

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