What are you making harder than it needs to be?

Happy Saturday, Friends!

I have personally spent enough time on the Overthinking Committee to qualify for a lifetime membership! So today, I'm asking you: What are you making harder than it needs to be?

I can turn a simple decision into a full strategic planning session. Give me a choice and twelve minutes, and suddenly I have seventeen possible outcomes, three contingency plans, and a mild headache.

Maybe you know the feeling.

Sometimes we keep researching, analyzing, asking everyone what they think, and waiting for the perfect answer when the next step is actually much simpler than we have made it.

The email needs to be sent.

The appointment needs to be scheduled.

The conversation needs to happen.

The project needs a first draft.

The boundary needs to be spoken.

The application needs to be submitted.

Your brain may want a 47-page feasibility study; your life may simply need the next right step.

So take one thing you've been putting off and ask yourself: What would the simplest version of this look like? Then do that version. You don't have to solve the entire year today. You don't even have to know exactly how the story ends.

Sometimes we create so much complexity around the first step that we forget the first step is where clarity begins.

You may be one decision away from feeling lighter.

Go make the next move.

Hit reply and let me know: What is the one simple step you are taking today? I read every response.

I'm cheering you forward from victory to victory!

Sybil.