Overthinker's Club Member Prints

'Let's hold off making a decision until we have even more information we don't really need.'

'Sun got in my eyes? Wind got hold of it? Struggling with 'Personal issues'?..'

"Bark or stare? Always a tough decision. Bark? Maybe stare? Whimper? Maybe? Meanwhile, stare."

They hated me.

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

"It's days like this that make me long for days like this."

"Try thinking about something else."

Four Types of Test-Takers...

"Ideas that jump from noggin when head not yet screwed on."

"Is all this confusion and complexity necessary?"

"Isn't it an amazing co-incidence that this is an orange, and it IS ORANGE?"

"The overthinker"

No Immediate Danger

That party went well.

"The teacher expects too much of me. She wants me to give it the old college try, and I'm only in grade school."

"Well, if you're still awake when the time changes, you'll lose an hour of overthinking everything, too."

A Hypochondriac's Worst Nightmare

'Your parents are way too overprotective.'

"Perhaps there is such a thing as being too well-informed."

"This may be Malcolm Gladwell talking, but we were married on the wrong day!"

Thinking and thinking backwards.

"I think he said he wants to buy 'just the one'. You'd better fetch the manager"

Workaholics anonymous meeting.

"I made a list of all my symptoms. Lost the list. Can't remember any of my symptoms now."

You have reached the end of your brain...

'You look like you have a lot on your mind, Jim!'

'I wish i could think of some way to get away form him.' 'I wish i could think of some way to get away form her.'

The Thinker and The Reactor.

'I'm worried about not being worried...'

Concern Chart

"My problem is I obsess over whether I worry enough."

"You're overthinking this."

"Thanks a bunch. I'll just run these by our committee and pass them along."

Flowchart of an idea.

Sometimes a Good Excuse to Get off the Telephone is Hard to Find