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 “When things go well, I'm already writing the resignation letter”, including the private rule underneath it: The private rule underneath this thought is: if things are improving, I should not trust the improvement too much, because staying open will make the reversal hurt more. So I pre-grieve, pre-exit, and pre-write the ending before the…
QUIET
“When things go well, I'm already writing the resignation letter” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “I’m drafting a future that hasn’t arrived yet. I can stop writing and stay with today.”
PRESENT
“When things go well, I'm already writing the resignation letter” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “Good news is here. I don’t need to turn it into an exit plan right now.”
ACTIVE
“When things go well, I'm already writing the resignation letter” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Open a blank note on your phone or paper, write the date at the top, then write only the first line of a resignation letter and stop. Put it aside without finishing, deleting, or sending it.
DOMINANT
Right now, “When things go well, I'm already writing the resignation letter” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Open a blank note on your phone or paper, write the date at the top, then write only the first line of a resignation letter and stop. Put it aside without finishing, deleting, or sending it.