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Like thinking your way through life instead of living it.

That's the trap, isn't it? Especially as we get older and "wiser"?

I know, because I lived there for years.

And I found something profound about overthinking—it's not about being prepared.

It's about being terrified of being alive.

I still remember one day, just as we were starting a company called BuiltGen, I had a talk outside on the deck with my brother.

I was deep in my spiral, arguing against him on why our business was bound to fail.

"What if it doesn't work?" "What if we lose everything?" "What if people laugh at us?"

My brother looked at me with this expression I'll never forget.

"We'll figure it out."

And I want to appreciate him for pushing me, because I couldn’t have gotten to where I am without him.

But at that time, those four words terrified me more than any failure could.

Because starting meant leaving the safe prison of my thoughts. It meant things could actually go wrong in reality, not just in my head.

But he pushed. And we started.

What began as BuiltGen has since become Trendify.

And today, we’re working with billion-dollar brands.

The same business I was convinced would fail before it began.

Here are some of the lessons I learned as I began taking action:

Heck, even this newsletter evolved like a million times.

I’m sure some of you remember when it was me posting images of myself traveling.

But each death of what I thought it should be birthed what it actually was.

If I'd waited until I "figured it out," you'd be reading nothing right now.

And I wouldn't be waking up to 1-2 messages a day from readers telling me how these words changed something in them.

That’s the power of action.

There's this quote from philosopher Kierkegaard that I love:

Here's what that really means: Your mind wants to understand before it moves. But life only reveals itself through movement.

Think about learning to ride a bike.

You can study physics, read about balance, and watch a thousand videos.

But you'll never actually know how to ride until you get on and fall.

The falling IS the learning. The doing IS the knowing.

And the thing about overthinking is that it feels productive.

You're exhausted from all that mental effort, so surely you're making progress, right?

The mind creates these elaborate mazes because it mistakes complexity for safety.

"If I just think through everything, I'll be protected from failure."

But that's the ultimate delusion.

Because while you're thinking, someone else is doing.

While you're planning, someone else is learning.

While you're waiting for clarity, someone else is creating it through action.

What broke the cycle for me wasn’t more thinking, it was lowering the bar for action.

When I felt myself sinking into analysis, I forced myself to do the smallest step forward.

The size didn’t matter. What mattered was momentum.

Because the moment you move, the overthinking collapses.

From there, momentum builds on its own.

Now, whenever paralysis creeps in, I remind myself:

Every moment spent thinking is a moment not spent becoming.

And life is too short to waste on thought alone.

So try this: the next time you catch yourself stuck, don’t think harder. Don’t try to reason your way out. That’s like trying to dig yourself out of a hole.

Take the smallest action instead. And do it before your mind can object.

You'll find something remarkable:

The thinker who was so worried... disappears the moment you act.