Frustration is just the way you respond to certain situations.
Frustration is useful when you first feel it, because it calls your attention to the conflict between your inner values and your outer situation.
Frustration is useful when you first feel it, because it calls your attention to the conflict between your inner values and your outer situation.
But once it has your attention, frustration has done its job, and it is then time to let it go.
As soon as you feel frustration, ask yourself what that frustration is attempting to tell you, and listen carefully to the answer.
Once you truly get the message, the frustration has done its job and it falls naturally and easily away.
By immediately understanding and appreciating what your frustration has to say, you can quickly get beyond it.
By immediately understanding and appreciating what your frustration has to say, you can quickly get beyond it.
Then, with a new sense of purpose and positive direction, you'll be even more effective in moving past it.
3 comments:
I thought frustration was a practical thing. It means preventing someone from achieving their goal. How we deal with frustration depends on whether we want to stick with that goal, or choose different means to the same end, or revise our options.
Remember that little ol' ant that thought he'd move a rubber tree plant? Pretty odd goal, if you ask me, but Frank Sinatra respected him!
I like this a lot. There's another word, dissonance, from a man named Festinger in the 60's who wrote about it.
Remind me of this sometime, wouldya!
:-)
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