Overthinking Coach Gifts

"Be the ball. Be the pins. Be the lane. Be the shoes."

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

"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."

Worry tank

"Is all this confusion and complexity necessary?"

"The overthinker"

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

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

No Immediate Danger

That party went well.

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

A Hypochondriac's Worst Nightmare

"I'd like to be a shake-it-off kind of person, but I'm more of a cling-to-it-and-focus-on-it-until-it's-irrevocably-weaved-into-my-psyche sort of gal."

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

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

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

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

"If I go to the party alone, will I be able to leave when I want? But then, there's always the possibility that I will get stuck talking to someone. I can't shake the problem is me. What if no one else likes me? I'm the only one being critical... The issue is I'm not enough and it's really so huge." "The over thinker"

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

"I do my best thinking in the shower... do I need to run 5 miles a day in order to take one?"

The Thinker and The Reactor.

"You're overthinking this."

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

"I asked you to hang a picture, how much more difficult can you make it?"

"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

"Duh!"

You spend way too much time and energy stewing over things, Al

"I'm not sure she really liked our gift. She used just two exclamation points after 'Thanks'."

"No, I don't want a glass of water, but I'm worried that I might want one."

'Dinner for two, table for seven.'

"Okay, Brian, it’s time to shut down your brain, quiet the anxious thoughts and begin to relax—just let it all go... and take a Valium."

"Wake up, baby. I just realized how my insomnia is all your fault."