If overthinking situations burned calories, I’d be dead.
At the crack of dawn…before we can even brush our teeth…we’re forced to be responsible for another’s life.
So when bedtime comes around, and our bodies ache from acting as a human jungle gym for our kiddos, all we want is sleep.
But our minds are a different story…
Because since we’ve been up, we’ve been thinking about messes, tantrums and where we left our keys.
So when we finally get a moment of rest, that’s when the mind of an over thinker takes over.
We replay the day and think about what we could have done differently.
We beat ourselves up for snapping at one child and sending another off to school without a homemade lunch.
Which then reminds us of groceries and brings us off on a tangent of everything else we need to do.
The to-do list continues to grow until we run out of room in our head and reach for our phone’s notes.
But then we start to over plan and open our calendars to prepare for it all…
“What’s tomorrow’s plans?”
“What if his game is canceled…what if he doesn’t get to play?”
“Does she have practice tomorrow?”
“What am I going to do if I can’t make it to both?”
“Did I cancel my doctor’s appointment? Is it bad that I keep putting that off?”
For every question, we have a million responses…just in case.
And each response considers all the possible ways that we can let people down.
It’s not because it’s in our nature to let people down, but because we can’t help but think the worst.
So if things go wrong, it becomes our fault and only our fault.
It’s our critical nature to think of every detail and put it all on us to make things happen.
We know there’s no such thing as perfect, but we can’t help over thinking that we can always be better.
For our friends, our partners, and most importantly our children.