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Kelsie and I went driving tonight. She’s taking her driver’s license test on Friday and she needed to get some last minute practice in.

As soon as we got in the car she was tentative and hesitant behind the wheel. She made a couple blunders but overall she was doing okay.

It came time to practice her parallel parking and one thing led to another and BOOM she drops a drama bomb.

Lemme just say: I ain’t into drama. She can save the drama for her momma.

I said, “that’s it, this is over, drive home.”

Then, it happened.

She began to drive. Really drive.

No more of this tentative crap behind the wheel. No more of this pansy slow acceleration and indecisive steering.

She accelerated smoothly. She steered confidently. Her corners were tight.

You know why?

She stopped thinking and started doing.

Her brain was getting in the way. Before she got mad at me she was overthinking the entire experience. But, once she got mad at me, her brain became occupied, thinking of various ways to put me away in my sleep, and her instincts took over.

How often does this happen to you? How often do you overthink things? How often do you think instead of do?

The next time you’re thinking of how you’re going to get this project done, or complete these errands, or finish writing the next two chapters, or get everything done in the next 24 hours that you need to, and your brain just isn’t coming up with the solutions, do this:

Stop thinking, tell your brain to kiss off, and just do.

Are you a thinker or a doer?