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However, I have also encountered people that as you describe just take it too far and are frustrating in their inability to make a decision.
That's me... Reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
- wanna-be perfectionist
- too many wrong decisions under the belt
- too much choice
- too much Internet
- limited financial resources; thus, trying to avoid costly mistakes
- general liking of fine things - champagne taste on a beer budget
Amen to this! Princess, once you came to this realization, how did you proceed to allow things to roll off your shoulders?
I'm at a stage in my life where, I know I mind screw everything and its making me sick..literally!! Any advice? Literal advice..step one, two, three..lol..I've tried so many things but nothing works. This is one of the many reasons why I moved to Orlando to just relax my mind and move at a sloooowwweerr pace, just take liffffeeee aasss iit comes. WELL ITS NOT WORKING!!
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First and foremost, kudos to you for wanting to make the change!
Do you typically analyse people and the things they say or when it comes to paperwork and stuff?
I used to over analyze people a lot only to realized that not everyone matches our assumptions.
So now if a guy text me a long msg, I try not to read to his 'subtle' comments or things like that. I make it known that people have to be direct with me, else I will just assume things and I suck at it - they usually prefer the first option. ;D
It's good to be meticulous at work though. Tell your colleagues you are a very factual, statistics person and let them know your expectations.
(Just don't be too anal about everything especially if you are in part of team - gets on people's nerves in the long run.)
I was shooting pool with my youngest son the other night and he asked my niece something that sent her into a 3 minute rant that had both of us on the floor laughing. He does question a lot which doesn't bother me but it had her spewing why do some pool tables have green felt, why don't pool halls have short pool cues for short people and on and on...lol
Anyway do you over analyze things of if not does it drive you crazy if other people do?
Hmmmm she sounds like my husband. She's not a Scorpio by any chance is she? LOL
My husband over analyzes EVERYTHING. No, I'm NOT kidding.
That's me... Reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
- wanna-be perfectionist - too many wrong decisions under the belt
- too much choice
- too much Internet - limited financial resources; thus, trying to avoid costly mistakes - general liking of fine things - champagne taste on a beer budget
I'm with you on those too. LOL.
I also have a few of the following...
- sometimes I worry too much of what others will think of the outcome
- if the decision involves lives of others, I over analyze the affect on them
- I tend to look a lot at what caused a situation, not just the situation, believe you gotta deal with the root, not just the superficial, otherwise it's like simply putting a bandaid on an infected wound without treating the wound.
How do you take things as they are if you don't have the answers? Thats like saying the sky is blue because it is..but theres a reason why the sky is blue. No?
Does the reason matter - unless of course you're a science teacher or meteorologist?
Here's a trick - sit down and think about what really matters in life. You'll start off with a big list. Keep whittling it down. Take your time. You'll end up with very few actual things that matter- friends, love, family, food, kinky sex...
Everything else? Gravy, pure and simple.
One of my favorite characters, Sherlock Holmes (talk about ANALysis!), upon being informed by Watson that the Earth circled the Sun and not vice-versa, responded "What the deuce difference does it make to me or my work?!?"
I like to try to keep that perspective.
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Reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
. WELL ITS NOT WORKING!! 
