I am a complete waster

[qwerty]

I lost my diary among friends and workers, which could be very damaging, If one of my co-workers has it, I've just signed my goodbye letter to this job....Im in trouble what can I do?

[RT Wolf]

Stop worrying about it. What will happen, will happen. Your worrying about it won't change what happens, and if you believe in the law of attraction, may even make it worse.

So, focus on doing your job and doing it well. Focus on inner peace and acceptance. Accept what is in the present moment. Ignore the possible futures. Try not to get sucked into imagining vividly what would happen if the diary was indeed found by one of your coworkers.

And try to track the thing down.

You might want to talk to your co-workers and be proactive about this and just say, "if you have my diary I would like it back. I said some things in there (I'm assuming you did) which I did not mean and I am extremely embarressed and sorry." Others might be able to offer you better advice.

[Truefire]

I lost my journal once. Actually only a few pages, but it was an experience that I really grew from. In the pages I wrote some embarrassing facts and thoughts about myself. I also wrote out some of my anger and frustrations about another person, the person who happened to discover those lost pages...

Ok, it sucked at first. Some of my secrets got out, and that person blew up in my face and "gained some insight into how our relationship really was." I had to go into damage control. I opened up and said what happened as I wrote that particular entry. I was feeling a lot of anger and harboring a lot of negative thoughts about that person, I told her. See, when I was writing, I was really just writing to relieve my mind at the time, and to get some things off my chest. I just happened to write some hurtful stuff that I would never have let out in the first place. What I wrote were my emotions in the MOMENT, not what I actually thought in general. This came as a surprise to myself, but it was true. (also, it throws the all the content of your journal into question, so you can deny what's true and whats not if you so choose! Just lean in favor of what was written and be honest, then small things can at least be overlooked without you looking like you're just covering your ass and lying.)

Once I had no choice but to confront my private thoughts and fears in public, I found they had much less weight than I thought before. The people who learned about the things I wrote, about myself and others, were able to forgive me over time, and I became a lot more open. In the process, I left behind a ton of emotional baggage, and overcame a few of my private fears.

My experience was pretty tame compared to losing a job, but I would say to use this as an opportunity to become a lot more open and honest with yourself about your private fears and secrets. Of course, I still would rather have found those pages on my own!

[Gordon]

What was in it, that was so bad?

Ranting about other employee's....not big deal....smacked bottom...that's all.

Was it a secret about you company.....mmmmm.....well could be be more of a issue.

I am pretty sure whatever has happened will not be as much of an issue as you think.

G

[Interpreneur]

About 6 or 7 years I was thinking about launching some adult-oriented websites, and during a business meeting I wrote about 10 potential URLs in my planner.

This happened on a Friday, and later that evening I realized I had left my planner at the conference room, so I went back to get it and it was gone. All sorts of crazy things went through my mind for the entire weekend.

Come Monday, one of our assistants told me she grabbed the planner and meant to call me over the weekend, but didn't want to bother me. I was freaking out thinking she might have read my XXX notes, so after composing myself I went to her desk and asked her if she had seen an envelope that was inside the planner (I was just analyzing her reactions).

She said no, but that she would look in the trunk of her car because the planner was there all weekend with some other things she had taken from the meeting. That's when I realized she had not read it, and I felt the weight of the world come off my shoulders.

Looking back it was probably not a big deal if she had read it, but I spent an entire weekend worrying over nothing.

Lesson learned: Don't worry. Like RT Wolf said...whatever will happen, will happen.