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Book Coming Out Soon

This blog was birth as a result of the book that I was writing and I am thrilled to announce that it is coming out very soon. The final corrections and editing are being put in place at the time of this posting and soon it will be sent off to be printed and published. Very exciting!

If you would like to participate in the promotional launch of my book “Anatomy of frustration - Discover How to Transform Frustration into Opportunities & Unlock the Power to Succeed” please do drop me a word or two at anatomyoffrustration at gmail dot com.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anatomy of Frustration: A 21st Century Malady

With all the reasons why we have failed to achieve our goals, acquire outstanding results and live the dreams of our lives, there is one cause that is now so prevalent in the 21st century and that is frustration with a capital F. It is imperative to understand that if we must achieve our goals and objectives consequently we must learn to transform frustration into opportunities and harness the energy to create incredible power to succeed. Frustration ranks among many other emotional dysfunctions.

Here is what Anthony Robbins said, “People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by ploughing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you'll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.”

Anatomy of Frustration: We React Differently

It is interesting to infer here that people react differently to frustration. Some people are completely turned off from the situation that resulted to that emotional disposition without resolving it while others just simply change and continue with something else. However there are those that become incapacitated and bugged down by their dissatisfaction and frustration that they just don’t take any further action for or against. Frustration can have extremely damaging impact on your psychological state, attitude, or mood at a particular time; it can slow down your progress and can ultimately immobilize you. You see, what you do not confront today will definitely live on to confront you another day. Hence, it is to your advantage to address and seek help with the issue and leverage from the support of others when it occurs.

Anatomy of Frustration: Complexities

One of my favorite definitions of the word “complex” in context with personal and professional development that I have came across is “Influence on behavior: A set of related feelings, ideas, or impulses that may be repressed but continues to influence thoughts and behavior.”

We are often overwhelmed by the complex situations of everyday life. These complex situations have the potency to disorient our focus, drain our spiritual and physical energies, which in the final analysis will incapacitate us in the pursuit of our purpose and destinies.

Complex situations are nothing but series of unresolved situation, or events intertwined and interconnected to form a myriad of things or events in our lives. It is just like a web that a spider creates; it begins by a single tread that eventually turned out to be many treads interwoven together to form a cobweb.

Unfortunately, if these complex situations are not resolved can create terrible frustration, anger and disappointments that will inevitably produce short and long-term consequences.

The notion and attitude that complex situations are impossible to resolve in itself is detrimental to your overall success in any endeavor. Therefore, to deal with a complex situation the first thing to do is to adjust and realign your attitude to your overall objective and definite purpose. That is what it is you want to achieve or your anticipated outcome. There will always be complex situations in your life be it personal or professional to think contrary will be naive.

The second thing to do is to seek to understand the complex situation. This you can do through research, evaluation and a mastermind alliance. The last but not the least is to get raid of that procrastinating propensity by taking immediate action to resolve any issue either personal or professional so as to avoid the accumulation of unresolved situations.

Anatomy of Frustration: Positive Possibilities

There are limitless positive possibilities, advantages to which you can use and turn the energy of this emotional trauma. Here is what Ralp Marston said, “You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” This cannot be further from the truth. All you need to do is to decide, yes to decide that you will become unstoppable and determined to harness the energy of frustration transforming it into extraordinary opportunities and unlocking the power to succeed.

Anatomy of Frustration: Reacting to frustration

Our initial reaction to frustration is often to succumb to it and its negative consequences without taking action in the direction of our anticipated outcome. We either resist or ignore it altogether, putting up a protective defense and confront it as an enemy with which we feel we must do battle. The yielding, resisting, partially or completely ignoring of this emotional disposition and others like it is disadvantageous and can only produce negative results, we will find ourselves producing more frustration, anxiety, stress and fear than opportunities and productivity.

In times of frustrations, you need to ask the right kind of questions, which will empower you to take action in the right direction with regard to the problem and condition at hand. Frustration has been seen and considered as an unnecessary evil responsible for your demise. To a larger extent it has prevailed as such, but this book will open your eyes to see beyond your present condition as it will crystallize in clear terms the anatomy of frustration and how you can turn and channel your frustration into productivity.

Anatomy of Frustration: Frustration can be a useful tool.

Frustration in life is not only inevitable, but also useful. However, what you chose to do or don't in moments of frustration is what will determine your ability to do that, which is necessary to achieve the expected end, or desired and your inability to produce your desired outcome. It is not what you go through that ultimately determine your outcome but how you respond to the events responsible for the frustration. Jack Canfield has formulated a formula that I think drives this point home and that is, Events + Response= Outcome (E+R=O). If you do not appreciate the outcome such as frustration in your life all you need to do is to change your response to the event until you get your anticipated outcome.

Quote Meal

“One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes”
Helen Merell Lynd

Quote Meal

“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
Anthony Robbins

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