We have all been there. Something happens with a coworker or friend, or something big doesn't go your way and you cannot let it go. You obsess over how things could have been or what should have been done and when. You berate yourself and others for the mistake, or ongoing issue. Or maybe you are not able to take action on a decision because you are just stuck in an overthinking trap. Don't judge yourself, it happens to all of us but sometimes we ruminate more and more and it can become a negative cycle in our life. 

Paula wants you to free yourself from the cycle of rumination, she knows it takes time and persistence, but the effort is worth it. She talks us through examples and explains how she moves her coaching clients into action. Paula shares a proven 3-step process that works for her clients. 

Listen in to learn practical wisdom to help you stop ruminating. So that you can take action and move on with your life.

Show Notes: reidnco.com/podcast

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[00:02:09 ] Paula: We also start attaching other things to it as we play that loop, we, start inferring, you know, impacts as a result of that loop that we're playing in our head. And it becomes not just a loop, but it becomes a loop with tentacles, right? Like an octopus. It all of a sudden starts growing legs. And you can see. Well, if that happened, then this will happen. And then this will happen. And it just can become a really very paralyzing and obviously very negative cycle. And, um, so obviously like any of these things, there's the extremes, right? There's people who Who get caught in this to the point of it becoming a mental illness.And then there's a lot of us that get caught in it because of a particular circumstance we find ourselves in. So how do you step out of that? Because first of all, it's sucking every ounce of energy and it's producing absolutely nothing by being in it. So how do you break that cycle?

[00:05:47 ] Paula: And when I asked the question. How do you know that to be fact? They pause and they don't, they don't know that to be fact. So put aside what you don't know and focus on what you do know. And now think about the emotion that's really attached to the things that you do know. Okay. What are, what are those emotions and what are those emotions telling you and where are they coming from?

[00:07:46 ] Paula: So it goes from being this larger than life hijacking into something that is manageable and that you can have agency. Over impacting. And like I said, I've been a victim of it on many occasions. Okay. And I think, uh, for any of us, if we sit back and think about the times that we created these stories in our head that took us to far off places, nine times out of 10, those things that we imagined.

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