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How to stop overthinking everything

  
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What is holding people back from the life that they truly want to live?

I’d say that one very common and destructive thing is that they think too much.

They overthink every little problem until it becomes bigger and scarier and it actually is. Overthink positive things until they don’t look so positive anymore.

Or overanalyze and deconstruct things and so the happiness that comes from just enjoying something in the moment disappears.

Now, thinking things through can be a great thing of course. But being an overthinker can result in becoming someone who stands still in life. In becoming someone who self-sabotages the good things that happen in life.

 I know. I used to overthink things a lot and it held me back in ways that weren’t fun at all.

But in the past 8 years or so I have learned how to make this issue so small that it very rarely pops up anymore. And if it does then I know what to do then to overcome it.

In this article I would like to share 9 habits that have helped me in a big, big way to become a simpler and smarter thinker and to live a happier and less fearful life.

1. Put things into a wider perspective.

It is very easy to fall into the trap of overthinking minor things in life.

So when you are thinking and thinking about something ask yourself:

Will this matter in 5 years? Or even in 5 weeks? (more…)

Doom and gloomers fight amongst themselves

  
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bear-fight1Roubini says we have asset bubble everywhere and everything is going to end badly.

Jim Rogers says Roubini knows nothing and that he doesn’t see any bubble. Jim Rogers sees commodities going higher.

Peter Schiff takes a stab at Roubini and says Roubini doesn’t understand gold. Schiff says gold is going higher.

Harvard University financial historian Niall Ferguson claims he’s a better doom and gloomer than Roubini in terms of timing and accuracy.

Disarray in the bear camp is probably good for bulls.

Facebook now 'worth $33 billion

  
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Facebook is now worth as much as $33.7 billion, after investors have paid up to $76 for a share in the company ahead of its much-hyped flotation on the stock market, according to a report.

The Financial Times has said that the implied valuation means that Facebook is now has a higher valuation than technology giants such as eBay and Yahoo!, which have capped market values of $30.1 billion and $18.3 billion respectively.

David Gelles, a reporter for The Financial Times wrote: “Common stock in Facebook is trading as high as $76 a share as investors scramble to get a piece of the company before it files for an initial public offering, which analysts say could be the biggest technology IPO since Google’s $1.67bn flotation in 2004.

“While Facebook and other successful Silicon Valley companies, such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Zynga, are delaying their IPOs because of perceived weak appetite on the public markets, some investors are not content to wait. They are acquiring stakes in technology companies while they are still private, hoping that their eventual IPOs will send share prices even higher.”

Facebook, which registered its 500 millionth member last month, is currently financed through a mixture of investment firms and venture capital companies. It is not yet know when the company will float, although there have been hints it will not be until 2011.

The company was the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg while he was still studying at Harvard University and launched in February 2004. Zuckerberg remains the chief executive.

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