Planning or Going in Circles?

Purpose: Helps you tell useful thinking apart from the kind that only goes around again.

When to use: Use this when you have been chewing on the same thing for a while.

Worksheet prompts

1. What have you been thinking about over and over?
2. Which of these are true about that thinking?
3. If there is a plan in there, write it in a line or two.
4. If it is circling, what will you do instead for the next ten minutes?

Thinking that goes somewhere feels different from thinking that goes around.