Oct 20, 2026 · 20 min · 7 segments
You have the idea, the big dream, or that goal you set out for yourself. But, almost immediately, your brain starts asking: *But how would that even work? Is this realistic? What if it doesn’t work?…
Courtney QuinnHost
And so today I really want to talk about why we talk ourselves out of the life that we want or why we overthink ourself out of the life that we want and how we can kind of shift this so that we don't do that because this happens all the time.
My client literally went from imagining her dream life and talking about the things that she wants to completely analyzing it, counting herself out of it, overthinking it and why it wouldn't work.
Like I said, in less than a second after she wasn't even done talking about the thing that she wanted yet.
She immediately got into, okay, but like, how would that even work? And I don't have that yet.
And, you know, I see all of these gaps and I'm doing this and this won't work because of this.
And how would this even happen? She literally went from imagining it and dreaming about it and playing with it to literally immediately switching so fast that into how she could not do it.
I had to pull it out of her and be like, Hey, do you see what you're doing here? Do you see that you are talking yourself out of this thing that you want before you even decided that you want it before you could even let yourself go there.
So she immediately left her her desire, her imagination, the thing that she wanted.
And so today I really want to talk about why we talk ourselves out of the life that we want or why we overthink ourself out of the life that we want and how we can kind of shift this so that we don't do that because this happens all the time.
My client literally went from imagining her dream life and talking about the things that she wants to completely analyzing it, counting herself out of it, overthinking it and why it wouldn't work.
Like I said, in less than a second after she wasn't even done talking about the thing that she wanted yet.
She immediately got into, okay, but like, how would that even work? And I don't have that yet.
And, you know, I see all of these gaps and I'm doing this and this won't work because of this.
And how would this even happen? She literally went from imagining it and dreaming about it and playing with it to literally immediately switching so fast that into how she could not do it.
I had to pull it out of her and be like, Hey, do you see what you're doing here? Do you see that you are talking yourself out of this thing that you want before you even decided that you want it before you could even let yourself go there.
So she immediately left her her desire, her imagination, the thing that she wanted.
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