[sgeisenh]

This is great advice.

Anecdotally, I've been having pretty bad anxiety this year from work that I feel should be easy but turns out to have many unexpected wrinkles. In retrospect, it seems like there may have been a lot of "justs" when discussing early solutions.

I've started to take a step back when approaching problems to better understand potential obstacles, but this was still a pretty big toll on my confidence.

[t-eckert]

I am going through the same thing this year. You're doing the right thing in reevaluating. Have confidence knowing that even if your previous work didn't go how you wanted it to, stopping and taking a look at _how_ you do that work is a sign of progress towards a point where your work meets and exceeds your expectations.