The waiting game…

The waiting game is hard. The internal dialogue that runs around and around whilst you wait, well, it’s a bit never ending. It runs in all directions, positive, negative and everything in between.

That dialogue can be completely convincing. Countering it with rational thinking can be in itself quite the emotional task.

It’s a task I am currently engaged in. I had a really great interview earlier in the week. I genuinely feel I did a reasonably good job in presenting myself and connecting and building rapport with the person interviewing me.

There was positive discussion about the role and how I would fit in to it and it all felt, at the time really, really good. Almost as though it was in the bag. Of course, I dare not actually believe that it really is the case, lest I be setting myself up for yet another disappointment.

I sent off a thank you email the day after and received a positive reply. Confirming as we discussed I would hear more later in the week and to reach out if I hadn’t heard anything.

But the waiting game….

The interview was Monday afternoon, and it’s now mid Wednesday, so the wait is hardly anytime at all and yet it feel and seems like it has been several days, many days in between.

My head is kind of doing me in.

Rational thinking is what is needed. Analytical thinking about how it went, what the process from here is. Centring myself in the known things, the actual things that were said, the actual things said and not said.

Focus on those things, and waiting is the task ahead over the next few days.

Ah the waiting game. It does things to your head and your heart. Just focus on the positives. Focus on the things known and the way ahead.

The waiting game it has me in its clutches just now.