Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to think back and write a little bit about the recent stressful but invigorating work I completed!

How We React is Critical

It's been a while since I've last written! It feels weird to be able to do it tonight lol.

Ah where to begin..? I had a hell of a last week and a half! I had the single biggest work effort I've likely ever done reach completion and holy shit was it a gargantuan task! All of the effort that the team took was pretty wild but one of the things that happens is things go sideways.

I think one of the most important things we can do in life, both in work and personal lives, is focus on how we react to things. The project went live and it was rife with all kinds of issues almost from the getgo. It was intense as hell, working 12 to 14 hour days as well as plowing right through the weekend but I think that it's incredibly important to take a situation like that and instead of getting mad, cursing at people and all that, it's best to just jump in and do your best to try and fix it.

A lot of times with chaotic situations like these, one of the most important things is not what is going on but how you react. As a project manager, one of the things that goes on is people look to me for what they should be doing. I have to delegate tasks to the people around me so that things can get done, work can continue and the right folks are engaged. With the situation that I was working with, I think the most important thing for me as a professional, was being able to react to the situations appropriately.

I'm not going to lie, it was stressful as fuck. I've got a lot of things riding on this, as does the company I work for, so I knew that I had to give it my absolute best. I was in the fucking zone on most of the days! Thankfully things have tapered off, the bleeding has been patched and we are getting to decent stability but damn was it a wild situation to be in. Lots of pissed off people around you LOL but thankfully they were not necessarily pissed off at me, but the situation in general.

One of the most important things I've learned in my professional life is that it's crucial how you react to situations. If you have a poor reaction, there is likely to have a poor outcome. If you are able to keep your cool, for the most part, and take steps logically and effectively, things will be able to get improved one step at a time. It's a lot like what Galen said the other day, Work, don't worry. There was definitely worry on my mind for a lot of reasons, but again the most important thing that we can do is focus on keeping things together and bringing the people to where and when they need to be doing things.

I've definitely not felt that much energy, and stress, for a number of years. I won't lie in that I wasn't stressed because that would be foolish but I was doing my best to just stay focused on the tasks in front of me, and the tasks that are one step ahead as much as possible. I know that things won't be perfect, and the key people that we are working with also understand it, but when stakeholders are throwing virtual daggers at you left and right, one of the most important things is to stay focused on those things in front of you and one step ahead.

I think this was a great growth opportunity for me as well in a lot of ways, not only because I completed by far the biggest project I've ever done and hopefully will have to do in the next year or more, but I also really took the opportunity to do my best to lead my colleagues, and my customers staff, in the directions that we needed to go. Essentially everyone was looking at me for what to do next and it was a pretty wild thing when I think about it these days later. It was a team of about 35 people overall, at various levels of working closely, that had their eyes on me and what I was doing and going to do or ask for next.

Was it uncomfortable? For sure it was! But it goes back to how we react to those things. I did it as best as I could, knowing that I could have done a few things differently but that's the thing about hindsight, it's always 20/20. You can think of a million different things to do but the important thing is to take the lessons that we learn on a daily basis in these types of things, and apply them so that we improve things a little bit at a time in the future.

One thing is for sure, I'm looking forward to a few days off LOL shit that was tiring. I haven't slept that deep in a really long time hahaha.

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What about you? Have you encountered a situation at work or in your professional life where it was stressful as hell, but you focused and did your best to do the right thing? I'd love to hear about it!

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