Overthinking Guru Prints

'Mr. Swanson, out session ended fifteen minutes ago, will you please leave?. . .'

"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

"The overthinker"

No Immediate Danger

That party went well.

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

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

'Hey! What's the big idea!?!'

"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."

You have reached the end of your brain...

"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"

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

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

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

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

"You're overthinking this."

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

"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!"

'Dinner for two, table for seven.'

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

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

"The Talmudic umpire It may have been a strike, since it cut the corner of the plate, and yet it was a trifle high, but not really that high, and yet it seemed to curve over the plate..."