A Funeral for the Overthinker

How to stop planning your way out of presence.

Dear Kaizen,

It’s time to master the art of taking care, without worrying.

The importance you’re putting on your creative tasks is the very reason your desires keep evading you.

Since sixteen, you’ve understood that desire fuels accomplishment. However, you’ve been lied to in thinking that the more you desire something, the more likely it is to come to you. A common trap for working-class individuals trying to break into wealth consciousness. The reality is quite the opposite.

And I know you’re going to argue this, so let’s look around.

99% of people have an intense desire to be rich. Yet most are living paycheck to paycheck or just comfortable.
They want to be rich, but they don’t want to become what it takes to be rich. It’s too painful for their current self to die, so a new self can arise.

So, maybe you think, okay, if desire isn’t enough, then the main factor must be action, right?

Wrong again.

While it’s true that all goals are achieved through desire + action, there’s a hidden variable most people never see. The silent killer of progress: importance, also known as excess potential.

If you were a robot, the formula would be simple:

desired outcome = desire + action

But you’re not a robot, are you?

You’re an interdimensional human, carrying both a conscious and subconscious mind, programmed with limiting beliefs and inherited fears from generations before you.

Here’s the truth: the reason your manifestations keep glitching is because of the importance you place on what they’ll give you. The moment you put something on a pedestal and idolise it, you distort the quantum field with unnecessary tension.

In simpler terms… you’re doin’ too much, bro.

Your mother programmed you to sweat the small stuff.

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”

“Proper preparation prevents poor performance.”

All these sayings made you believe success belongs only to the hard-working, over-prepared, and hyper-focused.

Remember that motivational speaker who said, “You have to want it more than you want to breathe”?
He lied. That’s the poor man’s perception of success.

This may sound harsh, but…

Dreams don’t come true, Kaizen. You don’t create your reality through grit and grind.

There are already infinite versions of you existing across the multiverse.

Some are healthy, wealthy, wise, and stress-free.

Some are ill, poor and stressed out.

The secret to shifting to the version you see in your dreams?
Simply choose to be him, now.

Be ruthless about catching thoughts from the inner critic or the inner boss, both are illusions that drag you into “planning consciousness.”

You don’t need to plan for more than 5 minutes at a time.

The process of attaining any outcome should be as simple as waking up and making a cup of instant coffee.

Sure, you could complicate it by journaling about teaspoons, water ratios, or whether to add milk.
Or you could just get up, turn the kettle on, and make a f*cking coffee.

The only real planning required is having a clear idea of the experience you want to create.

The true formula is:

desired outcome = (desire + necessary action) - excess potential (thought energy)

When you overplan, you drain the fun out of creation. You can’t schedule magic, only the space for it.

The less you think, the purer your intention.
The purer your intention, the easier it is for the universe to deliver.

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7 Ways to Decrease Importance (So You Can Move Faster)

1. State > Action > Clarity.

State before action, action before clarity.
Your brain loves to trick you, telling you that journaling will give you clarity, that clarity will give you confidence, and then you’ll act.
It’s all a lie from the inner perfectionist in disguise.
Clarity comes after you act. Action flows best from a calm state.
BE > DO > HAVE.
Decide that nothing will ever come between you and your sense of flow again.

2. Work from a calendar.

You’ve only got four choices for any task:

• DO IT. (Stop complaining and do the thing.)

• DEFER IT. (Put it on the calendar, not in your head.)

• DELEGATE IT. (Let someone else handle it.)

• DELETE IT. (Be ruthless. Most of it doesn’t matter.)

A note on journaling: I love journaling, but it’s one of the easiest ways to overwhelm yourself with shit that isn’t even happening right now.
Use it as a tool for soul-searching, not as a battlefield for planning.

Your brain can’t tell the difference between reality and a vividly imagined thought. So when you fill your pages with tasks and worries, your nervous system reacts as if they’re all happening now.

I used to sit down every Sunday and bullet-point every action for the week ahead. It always ended the same way, feeling more overwhelmed than when I started.
So fuck that. My calendar handles the logistics now.

My journal? That’s for reflection.

I only open it after things are done, deferred, delegated, or deleted.
That’s when it becomes what it was meant to be… a mirror for consciousness, not a prison for plans.

3. Stop making to-do lists.

They’re guilt traps. Endless reminders that you’re “behind.”
Instead, check your calendar and choose 1–3 intentions for the day.
Ask: What 3 things would make me feel like a champion by sunset?

If you need lists, keep them for specific workblocks. Nothing more.

4. Hard stop at 5 PM.

• Never work longer than 90 minutes at a time unless inspired.

• Don’t “work” for more than five hours a day unless inspired.

• Walk away when the energy dips.

Most of the time, working longer than four to six hours is just unnecessary.
Beyond that, you’re in excess potential mode, drained of creative energy but still gripping the outcome, trying to perfect something that doesn’t need more effort, just distance.

Walk the fuck away and go have some fun, bro.
It ain’t your life!! It’s just your work. It’s not running away.

Go reset your perspective.
Otherwise, you risk becoming your own slave driver again.
And you know how your brain works, the moment you stop forcing it, it starts firing. The best ideas always land when you’re out there living, not labouring.

5. Be a spontaneous creator.

Walk to the beat of your own drum.

Fuck trying to stick to a schedule or box yourself in with “creative priorities.”
Work from inspiration + cool consciousness.

You’ve got this habit of chaining one creative drop to another… trying to make the newsletter drop with the photo dump, or the sketch drop with the podcast.
No, no, no. That’s self-torture disguised as structure.

You’ve trapped yourself in boring expectations for too long. It makes everything feel corporate and kills the spark that made your art magnetic in the first place. When you chase alignment instead of inspiration, you block the flow.

Let things evolve naturally. Trust that your expression alone is enough. The work that comes from a pure, unbothered state will always resonate more than anything born from strategy.

Ever since you tried to add order, the views slowed down, G.
Just sayin’.

Your sketches, photo dumps, stories, videos, newsletters, and live streams hit because they’re you.
Unfiltered. Unforced. Unfuckwithable.

6. “You” time.

Protect the asset.

Nothing moves the same when that magnetic, fun, charming version of you doesn’t have space to breathe.
Don’t let the inner critic win.

Keep a sacred window of time open every single day, just for you.
Go for a long walk alone.
Sit in silence.
Hit a breathwork ceremony.
Do something that has no agenda other than reconnecting with yourself.

If you neglect this, the pressure builds. You abandon yourself again.
Your loved ones feel the disconnection.
And before you know it, you’re drifting into another long stretch of detachment just to figure your shit out.

Don’t wait for the burnout to remind you who you are.
You come first, always.
Don’t wait for the crash. You really do come first.

7. Live in the timeless now.

There’s only ever one thing to do, the thing you’re doing.
Presence makes every task simple.
When you fully inhabit the now, effort becomes elegance.

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Follow these rules, and that feeling of spinning your wheels and going nowhere, fast, will dissolve.
What replaces it is flow.
Effortless momentum. Playful discipline.

Your work will feel alive again.
Opportunities will magnetise to you, not because you force them, but because your state finally matches your desire.

The overthinker is dead.
Long live the creator.

Yours truly,
Junayde Isaie-McKenzie