Processing an Issue

Three Approaches to Dealing with an Issue -

1. Find someone to blame. It's much easier to externalize the problem than deal with it. If you can't identify one person, email all your contacts, telling them to go to hell, followed by a row of middle-finger emojis.

2. Find a safe space to which to escape. Find a distraction. Check Instagram. Turn on the news, ESPN, or youTube. Pretend you can multitask by clearing out your inbox. Better yet, call it a day and go home to your bed.

3. Find a way to process by taking responsibility. Take a deep breath and remind yourself that these are the moments that separate winners from losers.

Trust me the Great Ones Own Their Role

"My bad." These are two simple words that all the great ones use constantly. Winners also use phrases such as "This mistake is on me" and "We have no one to blame but ourselves."

Victims blame, blame the software, the team, the market, the clients, their managers. They point fingers at everyone but themselves. As a result they keep making the same mistakes and keep losing.

Remember - The great ones own their role. Experts look forward to confronting issues, they treat them like a game. When you start viewing a crisis as an opportunity, and start processing the issues effectively, you start winning the game.

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