I was recently assigned a new task at work. A task that I felt was not for me at all. I tried to turn it around…
Who knows, it could be great. It’s exciting to have new experiences. It’s good to be challenged now and then.
It worked mentally for a short while, but then the doubt crept back in, just as strong as before. My gut kept shouting that this was a clear case of “the wrong person in the wrong place.”
When I woke up yesterday, it was the first thing on my mind. This can’t go on, I thought. I have to talk to my boss.
So, in the morning, I called him and explained exactly how I felt. I told him it was better to be upfront than to keep ruminating about it. He agreed completely and appreciated my honesty.
Fifteen minutes later, he called back:
Now it’s fixed! We’ll work it out some other way.
What a relief. It felt like putting down a heavy backpack I’d been carrying around for days.
All it took was to express my thoughts and feelings instead of holding them in. A simple, painless solution to a “problem” where the only real problem was that no one knew how I felt.