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I understand what you’re currently going through. It sucks when tons of thoughts rush into your brain every hour, making you stuck between several different questions and decisions. You want to stop overthinking and live with peace for once, but all your previous attempts failed.

If that’s the case, I have great news for you: this guide has extremely effective strategies and tips that will help you eliminate unnecessary overthinking and start living with a clarity of mind.

I know this because I used to be an overthinker myself. I would spend 30-40% of the day thinking bullshit thoughts about hypothetical events that would never actually happen. On the contrast, today I am a man with a clear mind, and have no thoughts polluting my brain during the day.

If you want to achieve the same, keep reading this guide to stop overthinking and optimize your mind for success, work, and achievement.

Why Bullshit Thoughts Keep Appearing

Before we begin learning valuable strategies that stop overthinking, let’s answer this question: why does overthinking appear in the first place? What causes your mind to run around, let in tons of negative thoughts, and sabotage your efforts?

The First Reason

There are several reasons for this. The biggest one of all is that you give too many fucks about things that go on around you. You put mental labels on things, events, possessions, yourself, and your life in general, which makes you overly attached to them.

Whenever you focus on external things, and not on your own inner world, you start prioritizing the fragile environment and pleasing other people at the expense of your happiness. This is why you worry so much: you give external things and events too much value, which makes you afraid of losing them, or of things going wrong.

To gain a sense of control, your mind tries to analyze and predict all the possible scenarios. It thinks that it’s helpful, and that you can prevent bad things from happening, which, as we both know, is a big lie.

The Second Reason

Speaking about the mind, the second biggest reason of your constant overthinking is attachment to the mind. You may not be aware of this now, but you aren’t the mind: you are a consciousness that controls the body and the mind.

It means that to exist, it is enough to simply be an observer, someone who is aware that he exists and can look at the world around him. If you stop being an observer, though, and attach your identity to the mind and to thinking, like most people do, you will believe that your thoughts come from you directly, and this approach will lead to constant anxiety and overthinking.

Identifying with the mind on a regular basis creates Ego – false self that will use emotions, manipulation, and, you’ve guessed it right – overthinking to use you for its dark goals.

These two reasons may seem like a big deal, and on the first glance, it may look like it’s hard to deal with them. It doesn’t have to be like this though. To help you stop overthinking, I want to present you 7 effective strategies that will purify your mind.

1: Commit Yourself To a Cause

There likely were times when you would look around at people and wonder: why don’t most of them succeed? Why do they look so unhappy, unfulfilled, and full of negative energy?

The answer is much more simple than you think. Most people aren’t happy or successful, because they have no purpose. They have no mission to complete, no mountain to conquer. Without a clear direction to move towards, they let life throw them around and control how everything goes, from what shitty 9-5 job they get to how long will it take to make their wives divorce them.

When you believe that you have zero or little control over your life, you feel threatened and scared on a constant basis. Humans like to be in control, and to feel like they are in absolute safety. Why would you feel safe or in power, when you don’t even know which direction to move in?

Individuals start to worry about shitty and insignificant questions when they don’t have anything signficant to think about. Thankfully, you can find this “something significant” – your purpose.

When you gain a Mission to complete no matter what, you transform entirely as a man: you no longer place so much value on the external world (eliminates the first reason of overthinking), and you gain control over your life, for you know where you should move and how you’ll get there.

You become a man that is stoic, confident, hardworking, and fears no adversity, because he knows that he will beat the obstacles no matter the situation. If you want to become a masculine man that lives with a clear mind, find your purpose and work hard on it daily.

2: Practice Mindfulness

I put this strategy on the second place by effectiveness, because it helps eliminate the second reason of overthinking – attachment to thinking and the mind.

As I said before, being a ‘thinker’ causes your mind to run around and predict all possible scenarios in an attempt to create a sense of safety. This approach doesn’t work at all, since it also compromises all the possible scenarios where things can go wrong, and you where you can do absolutely nothing about it.

One of the main problems of most people is not that they think too little, as some individuals say. I’d say it’s the opposite: people think way too much. They waste tons of time on bullshit thoughts and external things that, in the grand scheme of things, don’t matter.

How do you think less? The best way to do this is by practicing mindfulness, preferably through meditation. If you adopt this habit and do it in the morning on a regular basis, you will experience tons of benefits.

Not only will your mind be clear of thoughts about irrelevant stuff, but you will also be more focused at your work, feel much less stress, which in turn will improve your physical health and wellbeing.

Whenever you’ll go on a walk in the park, you’ll no longer be worrying about bullshit events or relationship dynamics, but be fully in the Moment – birds singing, sun shining, and branches of trees moving in response to the wind’s movement.

Read the detailed guide I linked above, and learn how you can integrate meditation into your own life.

3: Focus on What You Can Control

Worry often arises when a person focuses on what they cannot control. You see negative events that are out of your control as threatening, and try to use overthinking about possible ways to prevent them as an effective solution.

Tell me now: is it effective? Has mental masturbation of seeking solutions to things you simply cannot solve ever helped you or your wellbeing?

The answer is no to both questions. Focusing on things you can control deprives you from actual control and power. To gain back your inner peace and live without worry, you must learn to let go of worry or outide events you have no power over.

Instead of constantly seeking solutions and trying to prevent the inevitable, do these two things. First, accept the situation as it is without judgement, and allow the world to exist in the natural cycle of creation and destruction.

Second, if the worry still persists, ask yourself: “What is the worst thing that could possibly happen?” Most of the time you’ll find that the answer isn’t as scary as you thought it was.

A famous writer Steven King said: “Nothing is so frightening as what’s behind the closed door.” He is absolutely right, for humans fear uncertainty more than anything else. To soothe your worry, eliminate this uncertainty and expose the consequence’s true nature: an event that won’t kill you if it happens.

Apply this and other stoic lessons, and you’ll stop overthinking for good.

4: Cut Out Negative Influences

It’s easy to keep overthinking, have limiting beliefs, and self-sabotage when you have tons of negative influences in your life.

These parasites are like crabs in the bucket: they are extremely unhappy, miserable, and wish to see you in a bad state to soothe their own ego and lack of significant achievements in life. The crabs will tell you to keep indulging in bad habits, that you aren’t good enough, and that you supposedly can’t achieve success in your pursuits.

They may be your friends and coworkers. They may be bullshit habits that you don’t want to stop. Quite possibly, they may also be family members that keep putting labels and expectations on you.

To stop overthinking, ask yourself: what things in my life hold me back? What people in my social circle bring me down and keep me in mediocrity instead of growing together with me?

Think about these questions in detail. Yes, you’ll have to use thinking to beat overthinking, but I promise you: this analysis will pay off in the long run.

As soon as you finish your analysis, put in the effort to quit bullshit habits and eliminate/minimize contact with toxic people. Never allow your environment to dictate who you are, what your dreams are worth, and what you can or can’t achieve.

5: Build Discipline And Do Difficult Things

To succeed in life and shape it the way you want it to look like, you need to have discipline. You need to be willing to do the things that only the top 10% of people are willing to do.

Discipline isn’t only required to obtain success, though. It is highly needed to live with a peace of mind. Why is this the case?

Discipline gives you true freedom, for it makes you an unstoppable machine that can do whatever he wants without feelings or emotions interrupting him. It also gives you power, confidence in yourself, self-esteem, self-respect, and more opportunities to control your environment.

The more control and power you have, the less you worry about being crushed by someone higher in the hierarchy, or some external event potentially ruining your life.

Build discipline, stop being lazy, and do uncomfortable good habits that will make you successful day by day. Exercise on a regular basis, meditate, read, educate yourself, and do purposeful work that will set you free from the rat race.

Doing easy and pleasurable things makes like harder. Doing hard things, however, makes life easier. Those who live easy lives and have power never worry about potential bullshit. Keep that in mind, reader.

6: Practice Decisiveness

Tons of people are indecisive these days. They waste time thinking about whether they should do X, or do Y instead. This constant mental masturbation and overthinking eventually leads to analysis paralysis, and they end up doing no action at all.

Ironically, intelligent people suffer from this issue the most. Analytical and pragmatic nature of their mind forces them to try to find the best possible solution in the best possible circumstance, when most of the time such approach won’t work at all.

Listen. If you keep waiting for perfect moments or events to happen, they never will. The more you do mental masturbation and wait to find the best possible option, the more you lose your power and ability to solve problems effectively.

Practice decisiveness and making decisions quickly. Find a good solution and stick to it no matter what. Good decision made quickly and with determination is a thousand times better than a great decision that is either made slowly, or never made at all.

7: Be Grateful More Often

Finally, to stop overthinking, it can be useful to practice gratitude on a daily basis. In the modern world, so many people are ungrateful and spoiled: they have the best living conditions and peace, but always complain about how they are supposedly oppressed and lack fundamental needs.

Nothing pisses me off more than a person who is constantly ungrateful. They complain and whine all the time and never realize that the key to solving their worries is simply fucking acknowledging possessions that they already have.

Don’t be like SJWs, feminists, and weak-minded people in our society: be grateful and focus on what you have instead of what you don’t. Aside from killing overthinking, gratitude will make you a happier individual, since you shift your experience from lack to abundance.

Build the habit of gratitude journaling. After meditating in the morning, sit down at the table and write down 5-10 things you’re grateful for in life.

• I’m grateful for nature.
• I’m grateful for my family.
• I’m grateful for my work.
• I’m grateful for my home.
• I’m grateful for peace.

It isn’t difficult, and it only takes 5 minutes a day, yet the benefits you get from regular gratitude journaling are massive. Make sure you experience them.

Summary

Overthinking can ruin one’s life and put him in the state of constant depression and anxiety. There are two major reasons for this: one gives too many fucks about things that don’t matter, and one identifies with the mind, and allows it to rule his consciousness.

To stop overthinking, use my 7 strategies:

• Find your masculine purpose and think about it more than other stuff;
• Practice mindfulness and live in the Present Moment;
• Focus on what you can control instead of what you cannot;
• Cut out negative influences and toxic people;
• Build discipline and do difficult things;
• Practice making decisions quickly;
• Do gratitude journaling on a regular basis.

If you implement this advice, I guarantee you: you’ll obtain the peace of mind, and will no longer be bothered by thoughts about things that don’t matter.

Clear mind will bring you success, good health, and happiness. All it takes is implementing the 7 strategies and taking them seriously. Take action and good luck, dear reader.

If you have any suggestions for future articles, questions about this article, or want to leave your opinion about it, feel free to do so in the comments below. See you next time.