There are two kinds of people in the world: those that handle their frustration and those that wish they did.
When my son Joshua was about 4 years old, I began to teach him this Leadershipology. Since then, I have repeated it maybe hundreds of times. We were in a leadership meeting together recently and I asked him to share two things that have had the greatest impact on his life that he had learned. This was one of the two great lessons for him.
Why do we get frustrated? We get frustrated when things don’t go our way. We get frustrated when the actions we take don’t produce the results we want. We get frustrated when we feel helpless. We get frustrated when we don’t see another way to make things better.
Why would God give us an emotion called frustration? It is an instinctive reaction to what is not going right. It is a clue that we can and need to do something to change things for the better. I think everyone deals with frustration on a level. People that don’t handle frustration very well have a broken path behind them with burned bridges. Some people that don’t handle their frustrations very well end up in prison and yet there are countless others who live behind bars they cannot see.
How can we handle frustration better?
1. Seek to understand what the real problem is.
2. Big picture it. Will this matter 10 years from now?
3. Use the reactive nature of frustration to help you be more proactive in the future.
4. Deal with the immature part of frustration that over-reacts looking for a real solution.
5. Choose to learn what frustrates you the most, why it does and what you can do about it…killing what needs to die in you without killing someone else…for real!
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