Frustration at Work: Part Three
Are you frustrated with the culture at work, your boss, colleagues, direct reports, clients, or your job itself ?
What does this feeling of frustration add to your performance, your productivity, engaging your potential and really enjoying the one life you have to live?
Next posting we will discuss coping and mastering the art of dealing with difficult people who can frustrate us at work.
Today, we are going to talk about USING or TRANSFORMING frustration into a positive tool for self growth, leadership and success.
How can you frustrate yourself forward, rather than getting stuck in stasis, having a knee jerk reaction that negatively impacts your career, or plunges you into an abyss of toxic stress?
Here are three different, positive ways to use frustration as a power tool, a positive catalyst to take you forward:
1. THE POWER OF RE-PURPOSING: Frustration can lead you to realizing that the organization you work for, the job you are doing, the people you work for and with are out of alignment with your core values, and maybe even true passion, purpose and potential. It can be a wake up call to re-think what you really want to do with the rest of your career.
2. THE POWER OF SELF AWARENESS: Frustration with the people you work with means that you have to find a NEW way to not only cope with them but to master YOUR ability to develop enhanced Emotional Intelligence ( A learned and critical competency in life, sales, business, professional practice, leadership: Learning to understand and manage your emotions, understand the emotions of OTHERS, and use what you are feeling and thinking to MOTIVATE and ENGAGE the BEST in yourself and others.
3. THE POWER OF APPRECIATIVE REFLECTION: The medical model, the legal model, the business model all teach us to look for what is wrong and try to fix it. And, while finding gaps, establishing best practices is critical to success, so is mastering the art of appreciative inquiry. Looking at our life like a movie in which we are the director. Stepping back, removing our ego and our need for validation and discovering the positive lesson in even the most difficult and frustrating situation or circumstance.
The greatest successes in human history have been made by people who turned failures into success. And, when we feel frustrated, we feel that we have failed or that something has failed us. When we take on the dark cloak of failure it impacts everything we do, the information we collect, analyse and act upon (our perceptions, we get caught up in the grey fog of negativity…and it follows us!
The epitome of human genius lies in using the small and large things that frustrate us to really see the water, the positive opportunities or learning that is there for us to find and use in a POSITIVE WAY. CLICK here to access the Get Inspired Section of our website where you can read about famous people who turned frustration and failure around!
AND, stay tuned for our next posting about MANAGING AND LEADING when dealing with SEVEN DIFFICULT and FRUSTRATING character types.