How to avoid everything
How to avoid everything
How to Stop Overthinking Everything: 12 Simple Habits
What is holding people back from the life that they truly want to live?
I’d say that one very common and destructive thing is that they don’t know how to stop overthinking.
They overthink every little problem until it becomes bigger and scarier than it actually is. They overthink positive things until they don’t look so positive anymore (and as the anxiety starts to build).
Or overanalyze and deconstruct things and so the happiness that comes from just enjoying something in the moment disappears.
Now, thinking things through can be a great thing of course.
But getting lost in a sort of overthinking disorder – where you too often draw up worst-case scenarios in your mind or try to see all the possible outcomes – can result in you becoming someone who stands still in life.
I know. I used to spend too much time on overthinking things and it held me back in ways that weren’t fun at all.
But in the past 10 years or so I’ve learned how to make this issue so small that it very rarely pops up anymore. And if it does then I know what to do to overcome it.
In this article I’d like to share 12 habits that have helped me in a big, big way to become a simpler and smarter thinker and to live a happier and less fearful life.
I hope it will be of help for any other chronic overthinkers out there too to spend less time on those repetitive thoughts.
Bonus: Download a free step-by-step checklist that will show you how to stop overthinking (including 2 bonus steps that are not in this post). It’s easy to save as a PDF or print out for whenever you need it during your day or week.
1. Put things into a wider perspective.
It’s very easy to fall into the trap of overthinking minor things in life.
So when you are thinking and thinking about something the first step is to ask yourself:
Will this matter in 5 years? Or even in 5 weeks?
I’ve found that widening the perspective by using this simple question can quickly snap me out of overthinking and catastrophic predictions and help me to let go of that situation.
It allows me to finally stop thinking about something and to focus my time and energy on something else that actually does matter to me.
2. Set a short time limit for a decision.
If you do not have a time limit for when you must make a decision and take action then you can just keep turning your thoughts around and around and view them from all angles in your mind for a very long time.
So learn to become better at making decisions and to spring into action by setting deadlines in your daily life. No matter if it’s a small or bigger decision.
Here’s what has worked for me:
3. Stop setting your day up for stress and overthinking.
You can’t totally avoid overwhelming or very stressful days.
But you can minimize the number of them in your month and year by getting a good start to your day and by not setting yourself up for unnecessary stress, overthinking and suffering.
Three things that help me with that are:
Get a good start.
I’ve mentioned this many times by now. And with good reason.
This is perhaps the best way to influence your day. Because how you start your day tends to often set the tone for your day.
A stressed morning leads to stressed day. Consuming negative information as you ride the bus to your job tends to lead to more pessimistic thoughts during the rest of your day.
While for example reading something uplifting over breakfast, getting some exercise and then getting started with your most important task right now sets a good tone for the day and will help you to stay positive.
Single-task and take regular breaks.
This will help you to keep a sharp focus during your day and to get what’s most important done while also allowing you to rest and recharge so you don’t start to run on fumes.
And this somewhat relaxed mindset but with the narrow focus will help you to think clearly and decisively and avoid winding up in a stressed and overthinking headspace.
Minimize your daily input.
Too much information, too many times of just taking a few minutes to check your inbox, Facebook or Twitter account or how your blog or website is doing leads to more input and clutter in your mind as your day progresses.
And so it becomes harder to think in a simple and clear way and easier to lapse back into that familiar overthinking habit.
4. Become a person of action.
When you know how to get started with taking action consistently each day then you’ll procrastinate less by overthinking.
Setting deadlines and a good tone for the day are two things that have helped me to become much more of person of action.
Taking small steps forward and only focusing on getting one small step done at a time is another habit that have worked really well.
It works so well because you do not feel overwhelmed and so you do not want flee into procrastination or lazy inaction.
And even though you may be afraid, taking just a step is such a small thing that you do not get paralyzed in fear.
5. Realize that you cannot control everything.
Trying to think things through 50 times can be a way to try to control everything. To cover every eventuality so you don’t risk making a mistake, fail or looking like a fool.
But those things are a part of living a life where you truly stretch your comfort zone. Everyone who you may admire and have lived a life that inspires you has failed. They have made mistakes.
But in most cases they’ve also seen these things as valuable feedback to learn from.
Those things that may look negative have taught them a lot and have been invaluable to help them to grow.
So stop trying to control everything. Trying to do so simply doesn’t work because no one can see all possible scenarios in advance.
This is of course easier said than done. So do it in small steps if you like.
6. Say stop in a situation where you know you cannot think straight.
Sometimes when I’m hungry or when I’m lying in bed and are about to go to sleep negative emotions and thoughts start buzzing around in my mind.
In the past they could do quite a bit of damage. Nowadays I’ve become good at catching them quickly and to say to myself:
No, no, we are not going to think about this now.
I know that when I’m hungry or sleepy then my mind sometimes tend to be vulnerable to not thinking clearly and to negativity.
So I follow up my “no, no…” phrase and I say to myself that I will think this situation or issue through when I know that my mind will work much better.
For example, after I’ve eaten something or in the morning after I have gotten my hours of sleep.
It took a bit of practice to get this to work but I’ve gotten pretty good at postponing thinking in this way. And I know from experience that when I revisit a situation with some level-headed thinking then in 80% of the cases the issue is very small to nonexistent.
And if there is a real issue then my mind is prepared to deal with it in much better and more constructive way.
7. Don’t get lost in vague fears.
Another trap I’ve fallen into many times that have spurred on overthinking is that I’ve gotten lost in vague fears about a situation in my life.
And so my mind running wild has created disaster scenarios about what could happen if I do something.
So I’ve learned a better way to break out of such a vicious cycle and that is to first ask myself:
Honestly, what is the worst that could happen?
And when I’ve figured out what the worst that could happen actually is then I can also spend a little time to think about what I can do if that often pretty unlikely thing happens.
I’ve found that the worst that could realistically happen is usually something that is not as scary as what my mind running wild with vague fear could produce.
Finding a different perspective and clarity in this way usually only takes a few minutes and bit of energy and it can save you a lot of time and suffering.
8. Work out.
This might sound a bit odd.
But working out can really help with letting go of inner tensions, worries and to reduce my stress levels.
It most often makes me feel more decisive and when I was more of an overthinker then it was often my go-to method of changing the headspace I was in to a more constructive one.
9. Get plenty of good quality sleep.
I think this is one of the most commonly neglected factors when it comes to keeping a positive mindset and not get lost in negative thought habits.
Because when you haven’t slept enough then you become more vulnerable.
Vulnerable to worrying and pessimism. To not thinking as clearly as you usually do. And to getting lost in thoughts going around and around in your mind as you overthink.
So let me share a couple of my favorite tips from my daily routine that help me to sleep better:
Keep it cool.
It can feel nice at first to get into a warm bedroom. But I’ve found that I sleep better and more calmly with fewer scary or negative dreams if I keep the bedroom cool.
Keep the earplugs nearby.
If you, like me, are easily awoken by noises then a pair simple earplugs can be a life-saver.
These inexpensive items have helped me to get a good night’s sleep and sleep through snorers, noisy cats and other disturbances more times than I can remember.
Don’t try to force yourself to go to sleep.
If you don’t feel sleepy then don’t get into bed and try to force yourself to go to sleep.
That, at least in my experience, only leads to tossing and turning in my bed for an hour or more.
A better solution in these situations is to wind down for an extra 20-30 minutes on the couch with, for example, some reading. This helps me to go to sleep faster and, in the end, get more sleep.
10. Spend more of your time in the present moment.
By being in the present moment in your everyday life rather than in past mistakes and life experiences or a possible future in your mind you can replace more and more of the time you usually spend on overthinking things with just being here right now instead.
Three ways that I often use to reconnect with the present moment and to practice mindfulness are:
Slow down.
Slow down how you do whatever you are doing right now. Move slower, talk slower or ride your bicycle more slowly. Take slow and deep breaths.
By doing so you become more aware of how you use your body and what is happening all around you right now.
Tell yourself: Now I am…
I often tell myself this: Now I am X. And X could be brushing my teeth. Taking a walk in the woods. Or doing the dishes.
This simple reminder helps my mind to stop wandering and brings my focus back to what is happening in this moment.
Disrupt and reconnect.
If you feel you are getting lost in overthinking then one of my favorite mindfulness practices is to disrupt that thought by – in your mind – shouting this to yourself : STOP!
Then reconnect with the present moment by taking just 1-2 minutes to focus fully on what is going on around you. Take it all in with all your senses. Feel it, hear it, smell it, see it and sense it on your skin.
11. Spend more of your time with people who do not overthink things.
Your social environment is an important thing to think about if you want to break destructive thought patterns and move out of the cycle of overthinking in the long term.
And this is not just about the people and groups close to you in real life. But also about what you read, listen to and watch. The blogs, books, forums, movies, podcasts and music in your life.
So think about if there are any sources in your life – close by or further away – that encourages and tends create more overthinking in your mind. And think about what people or sources that has the opposite effect on you.
Find ways to spend more of your time and attention with the people and input that have a positive effect on your thinking and less on the influences that tends to strengthen your overthinking habit.
12. Be aware of the issue (and remind yourself throughout your day)
Being aware of your challenge is important to break the habit of overthinking.
But if you’re thinking that you’ll just remember to stop overthinking during your normal day – and in stressful situations such as an upcoming date or job interview – then you’re likely just fooling yourself.
At least if you’re anything like me.
Because I needed help. It wasn’t hard to get it though. I just created a few reminders.
My main one was a note on the whiteboard I had on one of my walls at the time. It said “Keep things extremely simple”.
Seeing this many times during my day helped me to snap out of overthinking faster and to over time greatly minimize this negative habit.
Two other kinds of reminders that you can use are:
A small written note.
Simply use a post-it note or something similar and write down my whiteboard phrase, a question like “Am I overcomplicating this?” or some other reminder that appeals to you.
Put that note where you cannot avoid seeing it like for example on your bedside table, your bathroom mirror or beside your computer screen.
A reminder on your smart phone.
Write down one of the phrases above or one of you own choosing in a reminder app on your smart phone.
I for example use my Android phone and the free app called Google Keep to do this.
Here’s the next step…
Now, you may think to yourself:
“This is really helpful information. But what’s the easiest way to put this into practice and actually make a real change with my overthinking?”.
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Thanks for the tips. One thing I try to do is to take action BEFORE my head starts overthinking. If I hesitate it’s too late…
It’s all happening with me, it’s like i am stuck in an endless loop of overthinking. My mind is always busy in never ending chatter. It’s everywhere, but not in the present. At times, i forget things and need to force my brain to recollect thoughts. It’s because of my phone too, it’s the first thing i see in the morning and last when i hit the bed at night. Every 10 minutes i keep on checking my mails and social media profiles. My family has started saying that i seem lost most of the time. I hope doing all these mentioned things will help me. Thanks for all the tips.
Thanks, it was very helpful.please tell me that if over thinking also leads to laziness.
Thanks your ideas are really good
I think its hard and complicated. I am stuck. Is there any help or support group. I am alone without any support and v. fibble… 🙁
Thank u….I loved your explanations and the steps to overcome overthinking…I am sure they are going to help me adversely….I just want another help…Could u tell me the ways of having interesting and exciting thoughts in my rather than negative thoughts when you are alone??
Why do I overthink everything?
Thoughts are powerful. Your thoughts become your reality. As Tony says,
“Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.”
Learn how to focus on what really matters with the Wheel of Life
What is overthinking?
Whether you’re a chronic overthinker or need to make a tough decision, you’ve probably had sleepless nights when your brain just won’t turn off. It happens to all of us at some point in our lives – we all experience events that cause us worry or stress. While it’s human nature to think things through when making a decision or evaluating a situation, it becomes overthinking when you can’t get out of your own head.
What are the symptoms of overthinking?
You worry about the future
You ruminate about the past
You beat yourself up about “should haves” and “could haves ” and are unable to let go of the past and move on.
You are stressed about what others think of you
You let negativity build up in your mind
You have “paralysis by analysis”
Replaying all the options in your head can mean that you’re so afraid to take the wrong action, you take no action at all.
You feel depressed or stressed
Overthinking a tough decision you have to make can often cause more problems than it solves.
Remember that even making the wrong decision is better than making no decision – you can learn from failure, but you can’t learn from doing nothing.
Why do I overthink everything?
How to stop overthinking
1. Identify your destructive thought patterns
2. Manage your story
3. Let go of the past
Overthinkers often focus on the past, expending energy on “what ifs” and “should haves.” Those who understand how to not overthink know that the past is just that. It can’t be changed. The only thing you can change is the meaning you give to it.
Letting go of the past means you don’t let your mistakes control your future decisions – and you don’t let bad things that have been done to you control your emotions. You forgive others and let go of your anger. It’s one of the most significant ways you can change your story.
4. Live in the moment
5. Take control of your emotions
6. Focus on solutions
7. Know the difference between fear and intuition
Overthinkers often have trouble distinguishing between the fear of making a mistake, which leads to overthinking to the point where they make no decision, and a deep feeling that something is wrong. Knowing if fear or intuition is guiding your behavior will help you get out of your head and take the next necessary steps. By connecting to your body, taking a few deep breaths and really feeling what it would be like to make a decision, you can decipher whether fear or intuition are in play and how to best move forward.
8. Ask yourself the right questions
9. Get the right tools
Knowing how to not overthink isn’t an innate gift. It isn’t genetic, or set in stone during your childhood. Many people who are able to control their emotions and avoid getting stuck in a spiral of overthinking and anxiety have developed these skills over time. It takes determination – but it also takes the right set of tools.
Once you discover how to stop overthinking and live in the moment, you’ll be happier, more rested and have a positive influence on those around you. Always remember that life happens for you, not to you. Even your negative emotions can lead to positive outcomes, if you treat them as gifts that have been given to help you grow.
FAQs about overthinking
Is overthinking a mental disorder?
On its own, overthinking isn’t recognized as a mental disorder. However, overthinking symptoms often indicate that another mental disorder is present, such as depression or anxiety. Even then it can become a “which came first?” scenario: Is overthinking a symptom of anxiety, or does anxiety cause overthinking? The important thing to know is that even if overthinking isn’t a mental disorder, it can have negative effects on your life and needs to be addressed.
Can overthinking make you sick?
es – overthinking causes stress, and stress can make you sick. Physical symptoms of overthinking and anxiety can include headaches and muscle tension, issues with digestion or sleep and shakes or tremors. These in turn can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease, weight gain, hair loss, a compromised immune system and even premature aging and memory loss.
Is overthinking genetic?
Most experts agree that certain anxiety disorders, which are often linked to overthinking, have a genetic component, but are also influenced by environment. You may be an overthinker because you inherited it genetically – or because you were raised by someone who created an environment of anxiety or stress. As with many other traits, the link between genetics and environment when it comes to overthinking is complex.
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How to Stop Overthinking Everything: 10 Psychological Tricks
Overthinking is a very common and fastly spreading mental disorder in the current era. Almost ninety percent of people in the world have become mental patients and are patients of health anxiety. Almost every second person is suffering from hypochondriasis and overthinking is one of the biggest reasons for all mental disorders. Here we are going to discuss some simple but very important tricks to stop overthinking from your life permanently.
10 Magical Tricks to Remove Overthinking And Anxiety
1- Remove All Negative Assumptions
Assumptions are the hypothesis and guesses that the human brain makes about something. You can understand this with the help of an example. Let suppose you complete a task or test and the result is not announced yet. Your brain ultimately starts thinking about the result. There are two possibilities that either you will pass the test and get the result according to your expectations. Or fail which is totally against your expectations. Here you can also take help from Schrodinger’s theory to help this concept.
Your brain will feel happy after thinking about the first possibility. But when you think about the second possibility, your brain will start scaring you with the result. The more you will think about this, the more it will scare you and continue building negative sketches. An unexpected element of fear enters your subconscious mind without letting you know and keeps on frightening you. This unknown fear results in useless anxiety and tension.
The is a very simple way to stop this overthinking. You just have to stop thinking about the results and leave this for the future. Whenever a negative thought tries to enter your mind, you just have to tell your mind “I’ll see this later”. You just have to think positively and hope for good results. If in case the result doesn’t come according to your expectations. You should accept it as a lesson just and start working on it again.
2- Write Down All Insecurities And Fears
Now you have to write all the solutions to that fears and make a strategy to overcome that fear. The “Double benefit” strategy is the best solution to every fear. In this strategy, if the result is according to your expectations, it is very good. But if it is opposite to your expectations, you have to make a “plan B”. This helps to make the wrong results right to you.
You can get rid of overthinking because your brain knows every possible result is in your favor. You have no fear of anything. As a result, it stops overthinking. As you know that overthinking is just because of negative thoughts that come to your mind. So you have to play with your brain using this strategy. The same strategy your brain uses and makes you overthinker.
3- Just Focus On Present
This is the biggest reason for overthinking today, in fact, it is not wrong to say that this is the basic cause of overthinking. To stop overthinking, this point is of prime importance. This situation is also of two types. The first type is of those people, who live in past and the second type of people are those who live in the future.
The people belonging to the first category remain stuck to a scary or horrific incident that happen to them in past. This incident could be a failure, a broken relationship, or something else. The second type of people remain stuck to the future and always overthink about it. Both these situation leads to mental defects.
You can get rid of this tension and overthinking by removing all the trash thoughts of past and future from your mind. Because the past has gone and will never be back, you cannot change it by thinking about it all the time. The only thing you have to do with it is to learn from the mistakes that you made in the past. After learning from that past, you have to work on your present to remove those mistakes.
And the future has not come yet. You can only change it if you will remain focused on the present. Otherwise, only thinking about it will just give you an unending tension. You just have to enjoy the present and feel happy by thinking about the blessings that you have. Also, you have to hustle today to make the future better than today.
How to stop overthinking-Avoid multi-tasking
4- Avoid Multi-Tasking
This is the nature or limit of the human brain that it can focus on one task at a time. In the current world which is full of rush and hurry, you are forcing your brain to multitask and try to overburden it. When the brain doesn’t fail to give you the expected results, you feel bad and start assuming yourself as dull and a loser.
You don’t care that this rush and hurry are damaging your brain badly. Anxiety, worries, and overthinking are all result of this damage. When you force your brain to perform more than one task at a time, it can’t focus on even a single task. This gives birth to overthinking and you think that your brain is useless as compared to other people.
So, what you have today is that you don’t have to put your brain in an emergency situation all the time and command it to perform all the tasks one by one calmly. When you perform a task successfully, your brain releases “Dopamine”, which is a happiness hormone and throws away overthinking and anxiety.
How to avoid negativity-Live every moment
5- Enjoy Every Small Moment Of Happiness To The Fullest
Another ninja trick to remove overthinking is to enjoy and live every moment to the fullest. Because when you don’t enjoy the small moments, your brain remains sad and releases stress hormones that keep sad and you cant enjoy big moments too. Mental states are dominant over external because all the happiness stuff is inside.
When you ignore the small moments of joy and don’t enjoy them openly, your brain doesn’t release happiness harmine because most of your happiness is linked to your internal mental conditions according to psychology. But when you enjoy every single moment to the fullest and even a minor thing makes you happy, your brain releases happiness hormone and prepares you to enjoy big moments of happiness.
So next time, even if a single event happens to your life, you have to enjoy that moment, because when you become happy about small events, your brain doesn’t have enough time to overthink and it always remains happy. When you try to keep your brain happy, your brain tries its best to make you happy and it has the authority to control you. You can psychological therapies i.e laughing therapy. These therapies are as important for mental fitness as physical therapies for physical fitness.
6- Find Positive Points In Negative Compliments
This is human nature that it feels bad when someone talks about him negatively. Criticism is also an important part of human temperament. It’s okay to feel bad when someone criticizes you and tries to highlight dark points in your work. You burn midnight oils to complete a task and think that you have it perfectly, but in the end, you receive criticism from some people. Or people pass negative comments on your personality too.
These negative compliments cause you to overthink that you don t have don’t rightly. In the second case, you overthink that the negative points that people were talking about are present in you. As a result of this overthinking, you start hating yourself. But you can also take these compliments positively. What you have to do is to tell your mind that these negative compliments are improving opportunities for you.
You have to think that if that person hadn’t highlighted that negative point, you couldn’t have removed it. You must have spent your whole life with that error. Similarly, you have to think that the person who criticized your task actually helped you to remove all those errors that couldn’t have ever seen. This type of thinking will not only help you to avoid overthinking but will help you to take every compliment positively.
How to avoid overthinking-“It’s okay”
7- Always Say “It’s Okay”
People start overthinking after getting hurt in relationships. Secondly, agoraphobic people are usually overthinkers. Before or after every performance they start thinking that people must be talking negatively about them. Relationship cases are very common. These people remain mentally stuck to the relationships that had ended and don’t come out of them just because of overthinking. They suppose life is useless without that broken relationship.
If you are suffering from these conditions then these small psychological mind therapies will help you to stop overthinking about this. First, you have to tell your mind that the person has gone from your life and will never be back. Though the time you spent with him/her was very good and is unforgetful, now that time is also over. Now you have to tell your mind that “it’s okay”. The person who has left your life deserves to be thrown out from mind too and you are going to make yourself happy without him/her.
Once you force your mind to adopt this, you will be automatically out of that relationship and it is never going to hurt you anymore. Now you have to try to enjoy your company and try to remain happy alone. Because an Autophile’s happiness is never dependant on anyone and he loves to be alone. After that, you have to limit every relationship in your mind and have to make sure that it is okay if another person wants to leave.
Other than relationships, people overthink when they do something wrong or make any mistake. To stop this type of overthinking, you have to tell your mind that you don”t have done this intentionally. It was just by mistake and everything is okay. “It’s okay and I’m never going to repeat it and remember it. Similarly, if you overthink anything wrong in the future, you just have to tell your mind that it’s okay if you make any mistakes.
8- Choose Your Circle Wisely
This point is of prime importance and is almost related to every psychological disorder. Because when your friends or social circle is full So when you waste your time with such people who always talk negatively, you fall prey to overthinking. There is a very simple and easy way to overcome this situation. You have to change your social circle. You can’t change these negative people but you can remove them from your life.
Because if you trying to change them is totally a waste of time and you don’t have enough time because currently, you are working to change yourself. l of negative people, they demotivate and demoralize you every time. When you discuss your big dreams and advanced thoughts with them, they laugh at you down your morale bypassing negative comments. These people have problems with every solution and this is their habit to point out dark dots on white paper.
So when you waste your time with such people who always talk negatively, you fall prey to overthinking. There is a very simple and easy way to overcome this situation. You have to change your social circle. You can’t change these negative people but you can remove them from your life. Because if you trying to change them, this is totally a waste of time and you don’t have enough time because currently, you are working to change yourself.
Replace these negative people with positive ones who motivate you, boost your confidence, and encourage you. These people will make your life happy because they think positively. When you stop your time with positive people, you automatically start feeling happy, and overthinking leaves your mind. So choose your circle wisely because has a strong impact on your mental health.
How to remove overthinking-Strong mind
9- Make Yourself strong Mentally And Emotionally
As you know that, overthinking is totally related to your mind and emotions, so this point is very important. When are quickly responsive and start feeling bad instantly, only small things make you sad and you start overthinking. And mentally if even small comments and incidents make you sad, you are mentally very weak and this also results in overthinking.
To stop overthinking and negative thoughts, you must have a strong grip on your emotions. To control your emotions, the “it’s okay” strategy is very important. You should not be sad about minor things and convince your mind that everything is normal and there is nothing to worry about. Not taking small accidents seriously will help you to keep your mind cool and calm and stop it from overthinking.
Keep your mind prepared for every emergency situation and possible result. By removing “What if?” from your mind and adding “it’s okay” and “it will be okay” will help in making you mentally strong. Because your brain stops thinking about something for which it is prepared, and when you are mentally prepared for every emergency situation it just stops overthinking.
How to avo-Ignore people
10- Give Deaf Ears To People’s Perceptions
As mentioned earlier, maximum happiness comes from inside. But this is a point that you feel very bad when someone talks negatively about you. If someone talks negatively about you, you start overthinking that he might be right.
What happens is that this wrong perception enters your subconscious and by overthinking you force your brain to accept that this flaw is present in you. After that, you start changing yourself
So when you let people’s perceptions run you and try to change yourself after every opinion, you remain worried and this is all because of overthinking. So to avoid these negative thoughts, you just have to give deaf ears to people’s negative thoughts but keep on self-analysis.
when you stop listening to people, then people’s perceptions of you no longer hurt you and disturb you. This is because when your ears ignore a negative compliment, your brain will also ignore that and will not take it seriously. When will not take it seriously, you will stop overthinking and remain happy
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How To Avoid Everything (Dutch: Aanmodderfakker) is a 2014 Dutch comedy film directed by Michiel ten Horn. [1] The film won 3 Golden Calves for Best Feature Film, Best Actor (Naber) and Best Screenplay. [2]
Thijs, an immature man in his thirties, refuses to grow up and lives the life of a student. [3]
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How to Avoid Distractions
This article was co-authored by Alyssa Chang. Alyssa Chang is a nutrition coach and trainer, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She uses her extensive background in brain-based neuroscience to work with clients on improving their connections with their brain and body to heal, reach goals, and move pain-free. She holds a BS in Kinesiology and Exercise, Nutrition and Wellness from the California State University, East Bay and is certified in Precision Nutrition, Z-health Performance and is certified by the National Council for Strength and Fitness.
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In today’s fast-paced, technology-reliant world, it can be tougher than ever to focus on taking care of business without getting distracted. Many of the thoughts, behaviors and devices that play an important role in daily life can become hindrances when trying to focus. In order to stay on task and get things done, it’s essential to create an environment for yourself in which you can work without having your attention pulled in different directions. This includes measures like turning off your phones and other electronics, scheduling specific times to work and meeting a quota of work and other tasks that you set for yourself.