Notice the Loop

Overthinking rarely announces itself. It arrives dressed as planning, as preparing, as trying to be careful — until you realize you have had the same thought ten times and moved nothing.

Today, you don't have to stop the loop. You only have to notice it. Noticing is already an interruption: for a moment, you are watching the thought instead of being the thought.

Write the loop down, exactly the way it sounds in your head. Don't polish it. You are not making an argument; you are catching the mind in the act.