#Analysis Paralysis

[tacxx]

Demon paralysis

(Context: I see demons or paralysis and since I'm mostly influenced by sun and moon lately. I see them like this-

They don't look like this and honestly they look blurry)

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[tomsmusictaste]

Four Year Strong // bad habit

[deliciouskeys]

Posting about writer's block usually relieves it. Will the same work for analysis paralysis?

Do you ever have a moment where you've written thousands of words and then look back and think "Wait, what the hell am I even trying to convey here? Why do these events/conversations matter?"

Chapter stretching on and I cannot get to the part that I think is the actual crux of the story and I'm not sure what's going on. I personally always aspire to write in a way where no paragraph feels extraneous (reader mileage may vary lol), but did I just write thousands of unnecessary words?

Time to go to sleep, look at it again tomorrow, and remove >50% of it.

[art-of-mathematics]

feeling desorganized in the idle mode

i want/need to throw a lot of stuff/items in my apartment away, as it is burdening me, and is taking up a lot of space.

The excessive amount of personal itms is a significant factor for increased amount and intensity of meltdowns and increased unproductivity and frustration.

Hence I regard throwing a lot of my belongings away. There is just to much of it, even old files that serve no purpose.

Analysis paralysis and executice dysfunction are assholes.

Frustrating.

My current impulse is to take a break from my shitty apartment and this awful city and visit my friend who is 400km far away for some days.

I just need to take a break from this futility and isolation cycle.

Under these current circumstances in my apartment and city it is very difficult to do creative stuff or calm myself. So I regard taking a break from this shitty stuff as helpful.

I might do that.

[sewambitious]

I have so many sewing and weaving projects that I want to do that I’ve excited myself into stasis 😭

[tacxx]

[nobossinc]

Stop Overthinking: DONE is Better Than PERFECT

Being a new entrepreneur isn't just about not knowing what to do—it's also about not knowing how to get things done. And if you don’t already know, your personal life and your business life - they're two completely different worlds.

The tasks are different, the priorities are different, and when you're building a business, you have to approach those priorities with a whole new mindset. Sure, you may have personal tools or tricks that work at home or even on the job, but those don’t always translate when you’re the one steering the ship. That's why I like to tackle these issues head-on, no sugar-coating.

I am an organized person; very much a planner; and have overcome procrastination. Even though I worked my butt off, I wasn’t getting results. How is this possible?

I took a step back to figure out what I was doing wrong and I started to see a pattern of behavior for something called Analysis Paralysis.

WHAT IT IS:

Analysis paralysis occurs when you spend so much time thinking through ideas, strategies, and plans that you never actually take action or execute them. This can happen because you're trying to perfect the plan, considering every possible angle, or simply getting stuck in the ideation phase.

HOW TO IDENTIFY:

1.      Lack of Execution

What It Is: Spending too much time planning and not enough time doing. Even if you come up with great ideas and strategies, without consistent action and follow-through, those ideas won't translate into results.

Symptoms: Creating a strategy but not implementing it consistently. Sporadically posting on social media or launching campaigns without a long-term plan.

2.      The Cycle of Starting Over

What It Is: This is where you come up with a new idea, think through the strategy, but instead of executing, you move on to the next idea. This creates a cycle where you're always starting from scratch rather than building momentum with consistent efforts.

Symptoms: Feeling like you're always in the planning stage, with nothing substantial getting completed. A lack of measurable progress in your marketing and sales efforts.

WHAT NEEDS CORRECTION:

There's more going on here than just 'overthinking.' This is something deeper, and we need to get real about why you’re doing it and how to knock it off so you can start getting results.

FOCUS: You’re spreading your energy across too many ideas without fully committing to one and seeing it through, which dilutes your efforts. I often tell my entrepreneur community: Stop trying to do 100 tasks at 1%. It’s way more effective to focus on one task and give it 100% of your energy. You’ll see better results when you fully commit to completing one thing at a time.

FOLLOW-THROUGH: Ideas are great, but they only matter if they lead to action. Without execution, your ideas don’t have the opportunity to generate sales or results.

CONSISTENCY: Your audience needs to see regular content and engagement to build trust and interest in your offerings. Consistency is key for any marketing or sales strategy to be effective over time.

To overcome analysis paralysis, the key is shifting from overthinking to taking action.

Steps to Solving the Problem:

Here are some steps to help you break free. Let’s dive in and break things down into simple, actionable steps you can implement right now.

COMMIT TO A SINGLE IDEA: Choose one idea that you believe has the most potential and commit to it. Focus on developing and executing a full strategy around this idea.

SET CLEAR PRIORITIES: Define the one or two most important tasks. Focus on those first instead of trying to do everything at once.

SET MEASURABLE GOALS: Instead of just thinking through strategies, set clear, measurable goals for what you want to achieve. This could be the number of leads, sales, or website visits.

BREAK TASKS INTO SMALLER STEPS: Overwhelm comes from looking at the big picture. Break projects into bite-sized, actionable steps and tackle them one at a time.

CREATE DEADLINES: Give yourself a specific timeframe to make decisions or complete tasks. Deadlines create urgency and limit overthinking. Break down your strategy into actionable steps with deadlines. For example, instead of just planning a social media campaign, schedule the specific days you'll create content, post it, and engage with your audience.

LIMIT INFORMATION GATHERING: Research enough to make an informed decision, but don’t get stuck in endless data collection. Set boundaries for how much info you need before moving forward.

LIMIT NEW IDEAS: To avoid the cycle of constantly starting over, limit yourself to one new idea per quarter. This gives you time to fully explore and execute each idea before moving on to the next.

EMBRACE IMPERFECTION: Done is better than perfect. Perfectionism fuels analysis paralysis, so accept that things may not be flawless, and that’s okay.

MAKE QUICK DECISIONS: Train yourself to make faster decisions by trusting your gut and learning from outcomes. The more decisions you make, the easier it becomes.

CREATE AN EXECUTION PLAN: By focusing on execution, consistency, and measurable results, you’ll break the cycle and start seeing real progress in your marketing and sales efforts. Consistency is Key: Establish a routine for your marketing efforts. This could mean posting on social media three times a week, sending out a weekly newsletter, or running monthly promotions.

TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY: Once you've made a decision, take a small step right away. Action builds momentum and reduces doubt.

MEASURE AND ADJUST: Regularly measure the results of your actions. If something isn’t working, adjust your strategy, but don’t abandon it altogether unless it's clearly not viable.

These steps can help you push past the hesitation and get things moving!

Execution! Execution! Execution! It is imperative to breathe life into your ideas, business, and your success. T

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[tomsmusictaste]

[patchwork-crow-writes]

Isn't it crazy to consider that, in the time it takes for you to figure out what on earth you want to do out of the twenty-something options that are theoretically available to you at any one time, you could have probably finished two of those twenty things and be half way through a third?

I think about this a lot. Usually instead of doing any of the aforementioned things.

[mollieclimbswalls]

Decision paralysis every morning is my current state.

Set my alarm early so that I can get things done.

Leave the decision of what’s to be done until the morning. Then get overwhelmed by the choice of things that need doing and end up scrolling for 2 hours instead and inevitably feel guilty about not doing anything productive at all.

Meanwhile non of my family are even awake to notice and just get up and go about their day as per.

Good start to the day.

[iriemorning]

analysis paralysis

i guess everything really falls back to overthinking.

the energy it takes to reverse-engineer your goals and knowing all the possible ways to get there almost always leads to mental burnout.

not everyone philosophizes their life this much. it’s definitely not normal, but also kinda meta: i overthink the fact that im overthinking too much about life.

i think. i research. i consume information in all forms. i analyze. but when i spend too long in this state, i enter paranoia.

i fall into the abyss of analysis paralysis.

my “off” days are somewhat like this. nowhere to be seen, hiding in my nest, cannot be disturbed.

i was falling endlessly: fear and shame slithering behind my downtrodden path. when their fangs reached me, i was already desensitized to the venom of it all.

after all, the abyss is still a part of myself.

every person has their own abyss.

it was eureka.

in the end, we all come back to ourselves; to jump in that abyss when it calls us. we all go through it at some point in our lives. again and again.

but you cannot get infected by a poison that came from yourself.

an abyss is only as bottomless as you make it. the paranoia stops when you stop letting it.

so when i find myself falling into that wormhole again, i open my eyes to all the blessings i already have before me. if i wont realize that now, i might never.

[majorbaby]

one of my frustrations around accessibility becoming a buzzword, and specifically the "buzz phrase" is this accessible? is that this yes-or-no question props up a false binary of accessible vs non accessible.

in reality, accessibility is a spectrum and we should strive to make things more accessible while accepting that peoples' needs are too diverse and mutable to ever achieve a state of total accessibility. if you simply declare a product to be "accessible" without referencing to what standard, then you've lost the battle. disability activists understand this, but some of the confusion happening on tumblr around this shadowy concept of "accessibility" is arising from a lack of understanding of how complex a subject it is.

there are baseline standards and public policy for accessibility to try to at least ensure there's a goal post in place for creators to strive towards, but i don't know that the question of "is this accessible?" is always asking that.

plus those standards need to evolve faster than they are and for that to happen multiple fields of study (medicine, sociology, software engineering) also need to evolve faster than they are and in the mean time i think the best way to workaround these barriers as they arise is to improve how we communicate needs with each other, user to user, user to developer (and vice versa), developer to developer. And understand that there is such a thing as competing needs - which developers really need to do a better job of explaining to people.

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[yoghurt-bimbo]

me, sitting: get up get up get up get up get up