"When we overthink, we prevent our intuitive minds from doing their work."

A thought by Parrott, (2012-08-02) from his book, You're Stronger Than You Think: The Power to Do What You Feel You Can't (p. 16). Tyndale House Publishers. Kindle Edition.

This can and has been a problem for me. It is so easy to have a problem and overanalyze what to do. Too many times I would think it to death.

Sometimes analyzing needs to be done but sometimes we need to just do what our heart and mind is saying we are to do, to not overthink it.

I remember the day that I knew Margaret was the one I was going to marry. I didn’t need to solve all the problems. I just needed to ask her and then go from there. I’m glad I didn’t overanalyze it and do it. There were a lot of things that would have said we shouldn’t do it. One was, I was 27 and she was 17. One was, her father was a Cincinnati Red’s fan and I was a LA Dodger’s fan. Our first fight was over that. I have come a long ways since those days. But there were issues that would have said it might not work but we are still at it now 39 years later. And we both knew it would work.

I think there were some things I overanalyzed as a pastor and I didn’t do some things that I could have done because of that. Fear can cause us to not do what our intuition and faith says we can do.

Sometimes we don’t have time to stop and really think something through. Other times we do have the time and we need to stop and really think it through. But we usually spend so much time keeping ourselves from doing some things that would really be very good things to do.

I have come to the place in my life that I don’t want to miss out on what God has for me because of needing to solve all the problems. Our mind and our spirit many times already know what the answer is. So all we have to do is to have confidence and go for it.

So what is your intuition telling you to do?

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