Crisis What Crisis?

Changes happen.
Yes everyday can bring something new and interesting to your situation.

When you get caught out and are unprepared you call it a crisis.

Well now you can turn it around and make it just an ordinary event.

Here are few little tips to help you to just do it.

1. Take Five:

 Stop for a moment to collect your thoughts. Stop your emotions running you. This is the time for relaxed clear rational thinking.

- Clear a space in you work area - clear up clean up. Put away anything that is irrelevant and unrelated to the issue you face.

1. Rationally Revise What Needs to be Done:

 Some items on you to do list or set of goals must go. 

Take on a command and control mentality.

Your mind must be as a medic on the battle field - what can you save? What can’t live? What has to die? What must be rescued? What will expire on ints own account? What can you resuscitate later on?

1. Renegotiate Deadlines: 

Explain to others involved what is happening. 

Ask if deadlines can be altered. Most people are sympathetic. 

If they cannot help it might mean you have to work at a more inconvenient time to keep your promises. Control you hours and avoid over doing it.

1. Delay Selectively:

Postpone all trivia you possibly can for another day, or week, or month. 

There is often a temptation to work two hours later to finish everything. 

Think about working twenty five minutes later each day for a week or start thirty minutes earlier each day to get on top of things.

1. Find Alternative Plans:

If you are obligated to do a favour for someone explain your time crunch.

6.Send a Representative to Routine Meetings:

Decide if the meeting is important enough for you to be there. 

Is there a co-worker who could represent you?

7.Improve Your Concentration:

Avoid any impulsive chores such as unimportant phone calls or going shopping. 

Learn to cut off your escape route. 

Keep clearing away distracting materials.

8.Shorten Breaks:

Keep to your breaks and cut a few minutes off each of them. 

A fifteen minute break broken into three five minute breaks is better and more effective. 

Stretching and deep breathing exercises would pull thoughts together and will get you refocused.

9.Use Temporary Help:

Keep a list of people who could help you on hand. 

This can range from social service agencies through to professional services. 

10.Cash In Favours:

If people owe you a favour now is the time to collect.

 However make sure it is a genuine emergency.

 People resent those who lurch from crisis to crisis and always ask to be saved. 

Some people are victims of their own failings and are only too happy to play the persistent victim role.

11.Regain Perspective:

Learn to reevaluate and to debrief the situation. 

Ask what went wrong to create the pressure? 

Examine how much lead in time was needed for projects?

 Did you have a problem with your own assertiveness? 

Are you working for the right goals and values? 

Do you need to delegate more? 

Do you need more check points and markers on lengthy projects.

There you are just do one or two of these at the difficult times and see how well you manage.