theoutsider
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I've noticed that every day I seem to find myself focusing on the one negative thing that happened to me. If several negative things happened that day, I will focus on the biggest one. Most times, it's something that shouldn't even be a big deal. I know this yet I find myself thinking about it, turning it over and over in my head until it seems like a huge problem or slight against me. Yesterday was a fairly good day, yet I found myself focusing on the one exchange with my manager in which he seemed unhappy with what I was telling him. The thing is, he wasn't upset with me, he was upset with the news I had to deliver which I really had no control over. Yet all night when I got home, I couldn't stop wondering if his reaction wasn't him blaming me for it. Today when I talked to him it was obvious he wasn't upset at me over the news.
I had a good day today, meaning nothing went wrong. Yet, on the drive home I found myself caught up in the news that my co-worker had been assigned a project that I had previously assisted on and wondering what must have happened to keep management from assigning it to me since I already had experience with it. It isn't even a project that I enjoyed working on or wanted to do yet there I was letting it get me down. It's like I'm always subconsciously searching for that one negative thing that happened so I can obsess over it. Just wondering if anyone else experiences this.
I had a good day today, meaning nothing went wrong. Yet, on the drive home I found myself caught up in the news that my co-worker had been assigned a project that I had previously assisted on and wondering what must have happened to keep management from assigning it to me since I already had experience with it. It isn't even a project that I enjoyed working on or wanted to do yet there I was letting it get me down. It's like I'm always subconsciously searching for that one negative thing that happened so I can obsess over it. Just wondering if anyone else experiences this.