Overthinking is costing you money and keeping you from living the life you want. Author Jon Acuff says it starts with your “soundtracks” - the loudest thoughts that play in your head. Jon shares how if your soundtracks aren’t speaking truth, his three-step strategy will change the tune for the better. And he tells us why acting like a tourist and being nostalgic in the moment are just a few of his simple strategies to say good-bye to overthinking once and for all.
What you will learn:
- Overthinking is an epidemic
- The 3 steps to fix your broken soundtrack
- You can choose your thoughts
- The power of symbols
- Be nostalgic in the present moment
- Stop trying to solve problems that don’t exist yet
- Overthinking is costing you money
- Be a tourist
- The 4 parts to every goal
Quotes:
- “I mean, think about the isolation, the political stress, the social media division. So, overthinking only multiplied in the last year.” – Jon Acuff
- “You have to get rid of the word ‘over’ because ‘over’ is a word of perfectionism. ‘Over’ indicates there’s one wall, you climb over it and you’re all done. What you should say instead is, ‘how do I go through imposter syndrome?’” – Jon Acuff
- “Most people don’t understand they get to choose their thoughts. They think a thought is something they have, not something they hone.” – Jon Acuff
- “Some people let life happen to them, but it’s important to happen to life instead.” – Derrick Kinney
- “If you find something positive that you want to remember, that you want to repeat, give yourself a fighting chance of it working and tie it to a symbol.” – Jon Acuff
- “People who are always escaping the moment are only seeing the things that they didn’t do, not the things they did do.” – Jon Acuff
- “There’s no time suck like a fake problem.” – Jon Acuff
- “I like to tell people, when you ask somebody what they need, they become visible and valuable.” – Jon Acuff
- “If you work at a company with 10,000 people, you’re still the CEO of you.” – Jon Acuff
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