Sometimes for my daily doodle, I like to hand letter a positive affirmation. It helps me to stay focused. On this page in my sketchbook, I doodled some spiral lines and hand lettered “Trust your Gut Instinct especially when your overthinking something!” Check out these pics.
Oh, and funny thing happened -sometimes when I am hand lettering, I make a typo – and in the past, I would discard the drawing – but now that I am focused on doodling something every day – I am not as committed to getting things right – so I just keep on going.
I have been guilty of overthinking things my entire life – and spent lots of time feeling upset & ashamed for wasting so much time. In the last year, I’ve tried to visualize where I want to go – and what I’m hoping to accomplish -AND- when you frame all your decisions (big & small) through that lens – it starts to becomes easier to make decisions.
It’s not easy to trust your gut quickly – so there will always be some overthinking – but (and this is a big but) – stay focused on moving forward and where you want to go in life and the gut will tell you what you should do. And then you might realize that it’s not your gut – it’s you.
Frank’s Daily Doodles 