Hold That Thought…

This week I've been thinking about how to make things easier and less tedious. Here are three things on that theme to turn overthinking into expert thinking:

1. If you're like me and often find yourself overthinking what to put in a greeting card, you'll appreciate Auzin Ahmadi's advice in Soft Hobbies: How to write the best one you've ever written
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2. If you're similarly stumped by a recommendation request, Ryan Delon at LinkedIn has you covered: How to write a killer recommendation in under 2 minutes​
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3. Maybe you're struggling with something bigger, something with a bit more DUST on it? That was the case for me this past decade of procrastinating yearly on my taxes. Here's how I finally did it, with 8 months freed up to think about other things

For this week's underthinking link, you should go here to waste some time, it's easy!

Extra thoughts…

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Lastly, a question for you re: today's theme:

Enjoy that thing, whatever it is!
Kim

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Hello! My name is Kim Witten and I’ve spent four decades overthinking absolutely everything. This has led me to various places and I've had what I used to think was a fairly messy career. Here's how I made sense of it all​

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