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Sometimes I have a problem dealing with pressure. Okay, not sometimes. Most times. There’s a lot of pressure at work right now, and we are down to a deadline. It’s been fueled by a few factors that have been really getting to me:
- Everyone is stressed out. The stress breeds more stress
-There has been an “unofficial” request to take no vacation until after our event. This will be almost 5 months without a single day off.
-People have a “put out the fire” mentality. It leads to a lot of rushing around and heart palpitations.
-No one encourages each other to relax. It’s all a go! go! go! mentality.
I think it’s been a rough month. Usually, I don’t voice these kinds of things on the blog because I find myself in an endless cycle of complaining. You know the kind, right? Where it’s like word vomit a la Mean Girls and you just can’t help yourself?
On Thursday, my coworker and I went outside for a minute. It was, what I guess I would call, a breaking point. Regardless of what leads us to these points, they always arrive at inconvenient times. It is usually during looming deadlines, and never a good time to stop and say…”STOP!!!”
I learned a lot from it. I know, I know, it’s easy to say that after the fact. And it’s true. It is 100% difficult to stop a breaking point before it happens. That is too zen for me. I can’t always hit the breaks. I guess the thing I can do to lessen the impact is to remember that it’s normal. We aren’t designed to permanently be in a state of fight or flight.
Sometimes, work makes us feel like everything is life or death. Things that are – in reality – manageable tasks, can overtake our consciousness. I would LOVE to hear from my fellow bloggers and readers about how they deal with these things. How do you make sense of what is – and definitely isn’t – a cause for a freak-out?
I’ll leave you with a quote:
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. ~Richard Carlson
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Comments
03.15.10
I know what you mean. A few years ago I had been having a stressful month bending over backwards for a client. I had stayed late the night before and saved my leftover dinner for lunch (writing my name on the box of course). I was back-to-back with meetings and so around 3:30pm, I finally got to stop for lunch...only to find out a coworker ate it. Yup, even with my name on it, he thought it was fair game. Just ate it. I lost it, having to go outside and try not to scream. It probably didn't help my blood sugar was so low. Since then, even if things are crazy, I always make time to eat. The most idiotic things can push us over the edge, but at least having a full stomach and normal blood sugar should help.
And I always write my name on stuff. Even if people are jerks and eat other people's food, at least I can call them out on it. Might seem juvenile, but we need our little victories.
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