Ever have one of those days? The kind where everyone else is just wrong, and they are all conspiring to get on your nerves. You are to the point that you feel you just need to get up and leave the room. Well, maybe, you should.
You need to get out of the room and find a mirror. Take an honest look at yourself. And you need to figure out the answers to some questions. The important thing here is only doing this if you can be honest with yourself.
First, when everyone seems to be bothering you, is it on a particular point, or is everything coming at you not sitting well today? If everything is off, you have some more mirror time. The odds of everyone trying to bother you with different work, problems, or expectations are rare.
Is there anything that has happened to you lately that would cause you to be on edge? Has something from the past come back to the forefront. Is the rest of your life in balance right now?
I am not picking on you. You do need, though, to understand if there is a problem, is it based on what others are sending, or what you are receiving. If it is them, you can speak to them and nicely figure out what the concerns are and how to fix them. If it turns out you are on edge, then maybe you need a time out.
We do not stand in the corner with grown-up time outs. You should get out and walk for 20 minutes. Find a vista, and enjoy it a little while. Or, do something else that releases the mind and the tension and allows you an opportunity to reset yourself a little closer to normal.
You should never look at this type of exercise as ‘who is to blame.’ It is more of how ‘we’ get back to normal. As long as someone is on edge, normal cannot freely exist. When we take the edge off, normal can return.
Thank you for being with me today. I hope to be with you again tomorrow.
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