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Don't think about it too much. When I was younger this advice would have fallen on deaf ears. I lived in my head, and to me "thinking about it" was the only way to solve a problem or come to a conclusion.
Now, older but wiser, I love this advice. I hand it out freely. Just sit. Breathe. (If one more person tells me to "breathe", I may throw up—or throw something at the adviser.) Nonetheless, that's it. Difficult decision? Stop thinking about it. Set yourself a modest regime of five or ten minutes a day of sitting and breathing. Notice the in-breath pushing down the diaphragm, expanding the ribs to the sides, expanding the ribs at the top of the chest. I promise you that if you do this, you won't have space to think about your problem. Just expand and contract. Pretty soon you won't want to do anything else.
Follow this little routine for several days. Several weeks. The rest of your life. The problem will dissolve and the solution will pop into your mind when you least expect it to.
So, though I hate like the dickens to say it to you, just breathe.
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