Every Thursday I share three useful things to help you turn your overthinking into expert thinking. Here are this week’s picks:

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At the end of a hard day, when my brain is tired and seeks freedom from all obligations, flossing was just one more thing I didn’t want to do.
— my method on How to get yourself to do the “boring” stuff​

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I find luck to be a tricky concept. Janis Ozolins gets the balance and order right in this tweet:

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I love an acronym. I spent a large chunk of my studies in linguistics studying them. So, when I spot a clever one, part of my brain lights up.

Even better when someone spontaneously creates a great one!

This is what happened yesterday in a coaching session with creative entrepreneur Saskia de Feijter, who both invented a helpful way to slow down in the moment and offered to share her mini-creation with the world. Here it is:

When someone or something interrupts your flow, take a moment to pause and go HMM…

(actually make the hmm… sound. This is important!)

Then ask yourself the following questions:

• Does this person need my Help right now?
• Will it take a Minute (or longer)?
• How might this impact my Momentum?

…also, when you make the Hmm sound, what's it like? Was it a curious Hmm? A skeptical one? Annoyed? That can tell you a lot!

Saskia's top Realised Strength is Action — she has a bias towards movement and is a doer of many things. HMM… helps her take a minute to decide if the interruption is going to derail her day or support further progress on her mission: to help people step away from fast fashion​

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How's your mission going?

Whether you're starting with why or you're working through bigger challenges along the way, I'd love to support you. Get in touch to chat about something you're working on, get unstuck, or simply want to share an acronym or phrase that's delighted your brain in some way.

Good luck! Veel succes!​
Kim

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Hello! My name is Kim Witten and I’ve spent four decades overthinking absolutely everything. I’ve turned this ability into a superpower to get stuff done and now my mission is to help others do the same. Click on my picture to read more about my journey.

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