It’s normal to ruminate on real or imagined crises, but these strategies can help keep your anxiety down and your productivity up.
It’s normal to ruminate on real or imagined crises, but these strategies can help keep your anxiety down and your productivity up.
You make a mistake at work that you immediately know will have negative consequences. So you think about what went wrong and how you could’ve prevented it, but failed to. Then you mull over the likely short-term fallout, followed by the long-term consequences of the blunder. From there you return to what you did wrong and why you did it in the first place. And the cycle continues.