Stop Overthinking Your Future: How to Get Out of Your Head and Back Into Your Life

About this episode

In this episode, James Boardman discusses the importance of staying present and how overthinking the future can hinder one's life and relationships.

Right now, wherever your feet are — that is where your life is happening. Not in the future you are catastrophising about. Not in the past you are replaying. Right here. Right now. In this episode, I break down the three chambers of the mind — past, present, and future — and why most men are burning their energy in the wrong one. This is one of the most practical, grounding episodes I have recorded, and it comes straight from the work I have been doing on myself. Inside this episode: • The three chambers: past, present, and future — and which one is stealing your energy • Why overthinking the future creates fear, worry, and scenarios that will probably never happen • How being in the room but not in the room is costing you your relationships and your presence • The four keywords I am living by right now: peace, simplicity, contentment, and calm • Why journaling every morning is the most powerful reset button you have • How to flush out the future chamber and prime your mind before the day starts • The shift from negative overthinking to positive future thinking — and why it changes everything • Why you are the only guarantee life will ever give you • How to stay in the fight even…

People in this episode

Host: James Boardman

Topics covered

• overthinking
• mindfulness
• present moment
• self-improvement
• journaling

Keywords

• future thinking
• past
• present
• energy
• relationships
• journaling
• mindfulness
• self-improvement

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