The reason we spin in indecision and don’t take action is because of a feeling, always. It feels a little bit better wallowing in self-pity or procrastinating, than making the decision you need to make and taking action.
Those seemingly insignificant things start to add up; we become more reactive, and eventually, when larger issues are exposed, they feel overwhelming, and we can become stagnant.
I used to tell myself that I was BUSY. My brain constantly buzzed with stressed and distracted energy – I didn’t realize how much my mental noise affected my focus.
Your mind likes to be efficient. Once it has been thinking the same thoughts in the same patterns over and over again, it defaults to that programming whenever possible. Those thoughts become so rooted in our unconscious mind, we believe they’re true, often without question.