You probably know some of the people who are so called action takers.
They don't take time to think that much instead just take the action, if failed then they learn from it and if that worked out well then they're motivated more than earlier to work with the same approach.
I am not saying it's wrong but I'm also not calling it completely right to follow.
I have a friend, she has a wonderful goal in her life but the actions she has been taking for so long, I am not sure if she's actually going with the right path.
She is not involved in any same job but she's been working on a jobs which are completely unrelatable from what her career goal is.
Yes, she has identified her goal and she has also attempted 5 times till now in my count, and has gone for interviewing her dream job.
But how the hell she is going to break a leg there!
She has nothing similarly or relatable to work on which can somewhere help her regarding clearing the tests n all for her dream job.
What she is doing is just taking actions.
From her point of view, she is taking actions nicely, she's earning basically well from her current job with keeping her goal in her mind, but it's not going to help you if you just keep it in your mind for so long and actually plan nothing about it.
And whenever she feels overwhelming, confused, so perplexed with all of the things then she calls me and vomit it out what's bothering her n why? n so on...
I hadn't talked to her that much strictly ever before that day.
It was I guess, the 4th Or 5th time when she was stuck once again n asked me to help.
We met this time again in a domino's shop, (there was that nice pizza by the way) then
Once again similar stuff, this n that then "why I am really feeling this heavy from inside I don't know and etc etc... "
I made her clearly understand this time, I didn't talk as a casual friend, I talked to her in the same way when I counsel my students.
In short, I gave her a structure and helped to pick up the steps by that and then guided her how to follow onto those steps now.
It's important that you take time, think more as I shared about it and then take action on it.
Now, thinking more like this is different than so called overthinking.
Overthinking is when you let the things come in your mind randomly,
you dont remember what you just thought a minute ago and then you feel confused about something and ask yourself why this, oh god maybe I'm thinking too much.
No, you're not even thinking the right way.
Anyway, thinking more with a plan is different.
I'll share how exactly it is different from that overthinking phenomena in another book.
Now, I had guided her.
What was that organised structured approach?
If she followed it then what exactly she attempted?
Was she able to understand and consider what I shared with her?
How did she identified what steps to follow for her career?
Let's understand this all in the next chapter.