The overthinker's guide to making decisions

The overthinker's guide to making decisions How to make decisions without losing your mind

Joseph Nguyen

Book - 2025

Your brain is wired to overthink decisions--not because something's wrong with you, but because you care deeply about making the right choice. If you've ever found yourself trapped in endless loops of "what if," analyzing every option to exhaustion, or seeking everyone's advice while still feeling lost...this book is your way out. Discover the revolutionay TRUST Framework, which will guide you step-by-step through any decision, revealing with remarkable clarity exactly what to do. You'll learn how to immediately stop those 3:00 AM mental spirals and shatter analysis paralysis in minutes. You'll transform paralyzing fear into psychological freedom and permanently end the exhausting replay of past decisions.... With over seventy powerful journaling prompts and twenty "Mini-Decision-Making Experiments," you'll develop unshakable confidence to make bold choices from a place of alignment, not anxiety. This book isn't about fixing your mind. It's about freeing it. You don't need more advice. You need to trust yourself again. This book won't tell you what to do. It will help you remember how to listen to the one voice that's always known. Yours" --

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Subjects
Decision making.
Worry.
Anxiety.
Choice (Psychology)
Self-help techniques.
SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational.
SELF-HELP / Journaling.
decision making.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving.
Anxiety
Belief and doubt
Decision making
Emotional conditioning
Thought and thinking
Informational works.
Instructional and educational works.
Self-help publications.
Genres
Informational works
Instructional and educational works
Self-help publications
Published
New York : Authors Equity [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Joseph Nguyen (author)
Physical Description
185 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9798893310665
  • 1. A New Way to Decide: Rethinking Everything We Know About Making Decisions
  • Chapter l. The Silent Weight of Choice
  • Chapter 2. Why Do We Overthink?
  • Chapter 1. Your Focus Determines Your Decisions
  • Chapter 4. Where Our Best Decisions Come From
  • Chapter 5. But What If I Make the Wrong Decision by Trusting Myself?
  • Chapter 6. What If My Decision Upsets Someone I Care About?
  • Chapter 7. So How Do We Actually Make Better Decisions?
  • Chapter 8. The TRUST Decision-Making Framework
  • Chapter 9. Conclusion: A New Perspective
  • Chapter 10. The Threshold Before You
  • Chapter 11. Guide to Using This Book Most Effectively
  • Chapter 12. Decision-Making Principles
  • II. Discovering Yourself as a Decision-Maker: Guided Reflections to Understand and Transform How You Choose
  • Part 1. Self-discovery
  • Chapter 13. Revealing the Hidden Patterns
  • Chapter 14. The Role of Emotions
  • Chapter 15. The Influence of External Pressure
  • Chapter 16. Recognizing Judgment and Narratives
  • Chapter 17. Understanding the Cost of Overthinking
  • Chapter 18. Reflection
  • Part 2. Self-reinvention
  • Chapter 19. Returning to Inner Knowing
  • Chapter 20. Releasing Fears and Old Beliefs
  • Chapter 21. Self-Trust
  • Chapter 22. The Actualized Self
  • Chapter 23. Intention Setting
  • Chapter 24. Reflection
  • III. Practicing TRUST: A Step-by-Step Exercise for When You're Overthinking Decisions
  • IV. Tiny Acts of Self-Trust: Mini-Decision-Making Experiments to Help You Stop Overthinking and Start Trusting Yourself Again
  • What Should You Read Next?
Review by Booklist Review

Fear features heavily in life. Healthy fear protects us from dangerous situations. The fear-based adrenaline rush experienced when viewing horror movies is part of the appeal of the medium. However, when fear plays an outsized role in decision-making, the consequences can be a life of dreams unfulfilled. Happiness and fulfillment, then, are the outcomes of confident decision-making based on self-trust. Nguyen's workbook facilitates this challenging shift in practice through the guidance, reflective prompts, and fill-in worksheets provided here. Nguyen advises applying the SAGE strategy to achieve serenity (S) and harness emotion (E), pairing it with a TRUST framework built on actions to calm the mind (T: deep breaths) and focus on the root decision (R, concisely stated in one sentence). These structures are supported with prompts for personal reflection and "tiny steps" to take toward building an internalized process for the confident decision-making that best serves the aspirations of the reader. Recommended for public- and academic-library collections. The book includes a QR-code link to printable versions of decision-making tools (not seen); readers must provide an email address to access.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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