Is there anything worse than having an e-mail or phone call sit over a weekend, allowing you to manifest any issue in your head. The worst thing about it is 99% of the time, it is something that wasn’t ever that serious to begin with.
It seems one of the top things my brain can do is imagine the worst that can happen, and then top that. Time is its greatest ally, assisting by letting the thoughts linger.
There is a certain art to catastrophizing.
The one thing that bothers me is that we all know how horrible it feels when it happens to us, yet we don’t have the collective consciousness to not do it to someone else.
Language matters, so I hope that anyone that reads and leads thinks twice before they send that Friday afternoon email, and those who have to respond have the courage to ask the behavior to stop.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 