The Trust Yourself 10 Day Challenge: Day 4

How to quit overthinking everything

Melody Wilding, LMSW
3 min readOct 28, 2021

Welcome to Day 4 of the Trust Yourself Challenge!

Click here to catch up on Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3.

Yesterday we discussed how to start balancing your first STRIVE quality, Sensitivity.

Today we tackle our second STRIVE quality:

Thoughtfulness

Thoughtfulness reflects your self-awareness and ability to see the nuances around you. As a Sensitive Striver, you’re exceptionally contemplative, reflective, intuitive.

But on the flip side, you can get stuck in overthinking, worrying, indecision, and doubt.

Sounds familiar? That’s because when your Thoughtfulness is unbalanced, you may:

❌ Second guess yourself and be unable to make simple decisions

❌ Be overly self-critical

❌ Get bogged down in analysis paralysis and unnecessary details

But when your Thoughtfulness is balanced, you’re able to

✔️ Think deeply and act purposefully

✔️ Practice constructive self-talk

✔️ Offer creative, innovative ideas that others miss

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Melody Wilding, LMSW

Author of TRUST YOURSELF. Executive coach to Sensitive Strivers. Human behavior professor. Featured in NYT, NBC, CNN. https://melodywilding.com/book