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7 Signs You Are Overcomplicating Your Path To Success
Simple is boring but hard. But complexity only delays your progress.
My biggest lesson of the pandemic is : Life is simple but hard. We complicate to avoid the uncomfortable.
We dwell on the complexities of life because ruminating feels like we are doing something rather than face a hard truth and act.
As a concrete example out of my own life, I overthought the process of opening my own company for so long that I was not acting.
Should I be self-employed or incorporate? What will be the tax implications? Maybe they will ask me for documents that I do not have, maybe having my own company is too much work.
Zero actions. Just mental calculations leading nowhere. On a cold, winter night, I signed up for an account and clicked on a button that said ‘incorporate’.
10 mins later, after filling in a form and paying the fees, I had a company.
Do you feel like you complicate things too? Here are some signs:
1. You sweat the small stuff
Caring about every little thing is exhausting.
Yet you find yourself stressed in every aspect of your life: the bus is late, too much…
