Rumination from a mental health perspective means involves repetitive thinking or dwelling on negative feelings and distress and their causes and consequences. Reflection means serious thought or consideration. It’s important to make sure you understand what you do in times of chaos, pain and just your daily interactions and situations.
If you are ruminating, you are focused on the negatives and the things that cause the most stress. If you continue to ruminate, it can cause tunnel vision on just the negative, which can have an impact on your ability to effectively understand the whole picture. This makes you vulnerable to making decisions based on the wrong things.
Reflection on the other hand, allows you to see the good, the bad, the ugly in any situation. The thing that causes the most headache for leadership, might be a non-issue to the actual project. Sure, you probably want to deal with it at some point for your own sake, but there may be things that are significantly more important and reflecting on the entire situation, not just the bad.
Keep your mind in check. Reflect on things, make a decision and keep moving. Don’t ruminate.
I hope this was helpful! Thanks for being here! Take care!
