Keeping a log can be one of the easiest ways to stop the overthinking. I will provide you the one that we use but feel free to change it to suit you, if you need something a little different. Most of the logs you can find out there are fairly similar, and the order doesn’t matter. What matters is that you have a place to download your experiences and look back in blocks of time like a week or a month at a time and start to see patterns that you might miss looking day to day.

I know, I know. you wouldn’t miss a change!! Right!! But it’s easy to do. Think of it this way, when you don’t see someone for a long time especially a child you are always taken back with how they have changed, yet when you see someone everyday sometimes you can miss the most obvious change when it happens right before your eyes.

The second biggest reason is sometimes we forget at how far we have come. We spend all of our focus in the moment (and that’s great) but when we have a setback, we feel like we have to start all over again. A quick review of some of your earlier experiences or patterns is a great reminder that you didn’t slip at all, usually people find its quite the opposite.