Dealing With Curveballs | No BS Coaching Advice
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Life has a way of throwing curves at you. What should you do when it happens?
Life is this way of throwing curve balls at you. You know, you’re going along with a great path when, suddenly, out of left field (another baseball metaphor), something gets thrown at you that you don’t know how to deal with. What do you do?
It’s very upsetting if you’re looking at it from a business or personal standpoint. You discovered suddenly gotten hard. You didn’t anticipate it. At times, you can even get scary.
Let me give you 2 choices.
The 1st 1 is to try to stay calm. That’s sometimes easier said than done.
There is another alternative on the same theme. Go crazy in private. Get wild, frustrated, and angry, and that calm yourself down. Give yourself permission to let out your fear and anxiety in a private place or with someone you trust is not going to get caught up in your fear. What you’re doing is finding a place to discharge.
Again, 2 choices. The 1st 1 is to keep yourself calm. Number 2 is finding a way to discharge it by yourself or with someone whom you trust so that you can get the emotion out. Either way works.
Another way is to ask for some help. It’s for advice about how to sort things out. You may not have all the answers. Statistics say most of you don’t have all the answers. Many of you, because of your fear and anxiety, are going to be too scared to have an answer.
Start polling your friends and ask for opinions layout things in a factual way without any sort of judgment or opinion. Don’t put any additional template on top of it. Just layout the data and what its effect on you will be.
Next, start focusing on solutions. Start looking at ways to solve the problem. You could try avoiding it but the problem isn’t going to go away. Thus, your best of focusing on the solution and getting to the other side before it starts to run you too hard.
So, when dealing with a curveball, you 1st deal with the emotional component by staying calm or getting to a place with a person where you can go crazy. Next, start asking for advice. Then, number 3, focus on the solution
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 2400 episodes. He also hosts Job Search TV on YouTube, and Amazon, as well as on BingeNetworks.tv for Apple TV and 90+ smart sets.
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