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 “The good opportunities closed while I was on leave”, including the private rule underneath it: If I was not in the room when the decision happened, then I am not part of the decision at all. Absence equals invisibility. Opportunities that moved forward without me are now closed to me. The office changed faster than I could, so I am…
QUIET
“The good opportunities closed while I was on leave” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “The project shifted direction. I shifted too. We're both different—not me behind and them ahead.”
PRESENT
“The good opportunities closed while I was on leave” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “I missed context, not competence. Context is information I can ask for.”
ACTIVE
“The good opportunities closed while I was on leave” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Find one piece of work you completed before leave. Spend three minutes checking whether it is still being referenced, used, or cited in current work. Write down one concrete instance you find.
DOMINANT
Right now, “The good opportunities closed while I was on leave” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Find one piece of work you completed before leave. Spend three minutes checking whether it is still being referenced, used, or cited in current work. Write down one concrete instance you find.