Why A Prickly Predicament Calls For Direct Resolve
āš» By Herb Silverman | Reading time: ~2 minutes
š·ļø Communication,
Learning,
Mindset,
Perspective,
Progress,
Reflection,
Resilience
Your veins are popping. You are seeing red, bright red. Your blood pressure is 200/150 and on the rise.
Hot and bothered, you are irritated by the prickly predicament in your project you put yourself in. More than that, with no warning or knowledge, it gets even worse.
Why?
Screwed Up?
Thoughts race through your brain like:
- "How is this possible with this task?"
- "How is it possible that I screwed up?"
- "How do I get into this circumstance?"
- "Where did it begin?"
You think:
I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't ask for this mystery or its results. And I especially don't appreciate the other colleagues who are so apathetic that they are going along with the crowd, rather than defending what I am trying to figure out in my head in the first place.Geez.
Our "Kingdom"
Been there, done that. And it's not too pleasant.
All of us, no matter the circumstances, don't pay enough attention to what happens within our own "kingdom" sometimes.
We are not unbreakable. In fact, there is always a crack somewhere that crumples up the whole situation, whether we perceive it or not.
Boundary Lines
Yes, we can moan and cry a lot about the state of affairs unfolding. We can get nasty very quickly.
Similarly, our flunkies who inflicted this pain on our enterprise deserve some blame, too. If we are lucky, redemption will follow.
Or is it better to just chalk it up to an unpleasant experience? To understand clearly what the boundary lines are and to effectively maneuver this pathway in the future?
Definitely, a big goose egg to deal with, but how we respond says less about the mess itself and more about the resolve we bring to it.
When was the last time you let a stressful moment define your reaction instead of your resolve?
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