This is something I have wrestled with my entire life….and still continue to struggle with. When I don’t get a response, or a response that seems “off”, I assume the worst case… that I screwed up, that I offended the person somehow…..I immediately go to the multitudes of reasons why I didn’t get the response I thought I should have gotten. And here’s the one thing that always resolves it….

You know what it is? Time.

I find that if I just “park” it for a day, or even a few days…..I usually get a good outcome.  Often, it turns out that everything is fine….the other individual is just busy.  So now, when I find myself getting hyped up about something, I just tell myself to give it a day. I can’t tell you how much useless fretting this has ended.