When the Sh*t Hits The Fan.

As humans and as professionals, we all have our own unique combinations of things that count as ‘hell’. We also all have our own combinations of coping strategies that see us through these disaster zones.

My own particular version of hell right now is a 4 year old just gone to Big School, a husband who about to move himself, ten GPs and 12,000 patients from one surgery to another next weekend, and that I have a flourishing business.
Now who would have thought that ‘a flourishing business’ would come on the list of things that contribute to ‘hell’, but in combination with the other things in my world, sleep deprived, relationship strained and umbilical chord stretched, it can feel like a step too far! And by the end of the month, the bumpiest bits will be smoothed and I’ll be left with the good bit, the client work.
My coping strategies include: Retreating socially, chocolate, planning rigorously, list writing endlessly and finally, escaping into books. None of the above might work for you. You will have your own strategies. 
I have discovered however that I have a strategy that no longer works. When I am stressed I RUN at things…… And I keep pushing, getting more and more exhausted until it goes my way. I’m sure this tenacity has its uses, but for sustainability I am beginning to have to admit that it is redundant. I am going to have to quit banging my head against a brick wall and practise stepping back and reassessing…..
Changing a habit is not easy, and rather that quitting doing something, might I suggest the substitution method? When you take something redundant out, put something  new in its place. A vacuum inevitably results in falling back on the old ways…. What might you need to substitute? 

To learn more of working with Rebecca click here: The Daemon Career Coach