Stop Assumptions From Driving Your Reactions
Your boss gives you a short response. A colleague leaves you out of a conversation. Someone’s tone feels a little off.
Before you know it, you’ve created a story about what it means.
The problem? We often react to the story we’ve created before we know whether it’s actually true.
What You’ll Get:
Download this free, fillable exercise to help you:
Separate what you know from what you’re assuming
Recognize when you may be reacting to an interpretation rather than a fact
Pause before responding based on incomplete information
Identify what you can ask or do to get the information you’re missing
You can use this Fact or Story? exercise anytime you find yourself replaying an interaction, questioning someone’s intentions or reacting to something you don’t yet know to be true.
Sometimes your story will turn out to be right. Sometimes it won’t.
Either way, you’ll be responding to what you know — not just what you fear, assume or imagine.
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