SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “I rewrote my resignation letter in my head before the debrief even started”, including the private rule underneath it: If a debrief gets scheduled, the verdict has already landed and the only move left is to exit before you're told to go. Writing the resignation in advance feels like keeping control, but it treats a meeting no one has held yet as a…
QUIET
“I rewrote my resignation letter in my head before the debrief even started” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “I don't have the outcome yet. I stay in the room until someone actually tells me what it is.”
PRESENT
“I rewrote my resignation letter in my head before the debrief even started” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “Writing the goodbye speech doesn't protect me from the debrief; it just means I'm not really in it.”
ACTIVE
“I rewrote my resignation letter in my head before the debrief even started” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Write two short lists side by side: what you actually know happened, and what your imagined resignation assumes. Keep both; act on neither today.
DOMINANT
Right now, “I rewrote my resignation letter in my head before the debrief even started” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Write two short lists side by side: what you actually know happened, and what your imagined resignation assumes. Keep both; act on neither today.