What’s Next?
Things I noticed last week:
Sometimes the thing causing my stress isn’t the delay. It’s that I keep thinking about the delay.
I was waiting on information from a client and found myself getting increasingly annoyed.
Not because I needed it that minute.
Not even because the information was late yet.
I was annoyed because I knew they were going to be late.
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Eventually I picked a day on my calendar when I would bring it up again if needed, and decided what I’d do with the information whenever it arrived.
Oddly enough, that solved most of my problem.
Nothing had changed.
The information still hadn’t arrived.
But I had stopped carrying the reminder around in my head.
Sometimes maybe deciding what you’ll do next is enough to let the rest go.