😰 Stop Overthinking: Past, Present, and Future

LIP #260

Nov 13, 2025

Only 10% of your thinking happens right now. The rest? 50% stuck in the past, 40% worrying about the future.

Both are impossible tasks - you can't change the past or control the future.

Two thinking traps:

Over-regretting = imagining a perfect life if you'd chosen differently (it wouldn't have been perfect)
Over-worrying = building a chain of assumptions about the future

The fix: Trust that you'll handle future problems the same way you've handled every problem so far.

Advanced trick - Break timelines into thirds:

Turn past regret into present action - if you don't act now, you'll regret wasting this moment.

Go deeper by watching the full-length Leadership in Practice episode to see the entire discussion in action.

Leadership In Practice #280 Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM EST

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