# Preparing for dreaded voicemails

- URL: https://numo.ai/no/community/aaul3xx/preparing-for-dreaded-voicemails
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- Author: @chalussy
- Posted: 2025-05-11T16:23:19.917Z
- Tag: hack/tip
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I hate voicemails more than the phone being picked up. My brain scrambles and I feel like I leave the wrong information. 

To prevent overwhelming myself, I have what info I need to leave jotted down. So if I’m calling to make a doctor’s appointment, I literally have my own name written down, my birthday, my phone number, the doctors name, and reason for calling.   
Because what’s worse than reading your own name and birthday off a paper for a voicemail? Thinking you said your best friends name because you just talked to them or you said the wrong birthdate because you were thinking of your phone number that you had to say next. Even tho you didn’t but you can HEAR yourself saying it wrong when thinking back to the memory of 30 seconds ago… or 2 days ago when they haven’t called back, yet. 

I’ve started doing this and it helps the “what if” afterwards which makes it less frightening when you have to leave the next voicemail because you aren’t associating that “what if” anxiety with it anymore. Hope this find the right people 🫶🏼

\*it also helps to hang up, look at the phone to make sure it’s indeed hung up, then scream the first lyrics that come to mind. 🤣 

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