Where do you go when…..

You are seething with anger? 

You want something done your way?

You want everything to be perfect just the way you like it?

My view…….you slow down.  You take things slowly and take stock of the situation.  You ask yourself, is this the worst it could ever become?  have you been in worse situations before?  Did you come out alright thereafter or is what you are going through right now a bad nightmare coming back or worse?

This is what happened to me the day before yesterday.  A colleague at work was not pulling his weight.  I found out that items that were supposed to be delivered a week before had not and simply because my colleague had not done the paper work.  Attention to detail is key in my job.  The client (myself) was not happy, not at all.  I had to start looking for information to try and put the paper work together.  Information that had been gathered over a 2 week period by my colleage, was gathered in three hours by myself.  My colleague is temporarily incapacitated, therefore totally loosing it on my part was done amid lots of guilt.

However, I did the work, left my office very late and got home to try and rest.  I could not.  I still wanted to do something else, something that will let everybody know just how mad I really was, so I sat up and wrote a long detailed email – a wake up call to everybody on the team. A meeting was convened the next day, and everything was discussed then sorted out.  Ideas were developed to circumvent the situation.

Now I am much calmer after engaging in a ’soft war’ with invisible warriors (my email).  I wrote my thoughts down and they stood out in a calm and dignified manner and in this way, i was vilified but my goals were reached. 

I deeply thank my mother for instilling in me a calm sense of nature and for raising me up to be a thoughtful person, this is all I have to say.