Loving Monday: Frustration Release Exercise
Frustration is real.
I’m sorry if your week is starting off in a frustrating manner. I’m sorry if you run into unexpected frustrations later this week.
That frustrations are a part of our reality need not keep us from loving Monday.
In fact, our best bet for beating frustration is to acknowledge it. Instead of wishing that we did not have frustrations to begin with or thinking that we should be able to rise above them, we’d be better off just voicing our feeling.
It can be as simple as shouting, “Damn that sucks!”
Better would be to make it your own.
Damn (replace with your favorite expletive) that (unfair and totally biased description of what happened) sucks (no-holds-barred expression of how it makes you feel.)
To say it goes a long ways toward releasing it. Expressing the reality of both the frustrating event and its impact on you allows you to validate the negative experience without giving in to it or beating yourself up over it. You’ll actually have more internal space to deal with it more maturely and keep moving forward.
Let’s have some fun with this and help each other at the same time. Post a comment here sharing your version of, “Damn that sucks!”
Determined to love Mondays,
- Karl
