Live Your Dream Life with Passion and Purpose

Yesterday, I wrote about anger. But, seriously, is everyone crankier than normal? For me, I float around in a love-bliss state most of the time, but what I have noticed as we’ve been out and about at different times of day and in situations where we normally don’t frequent… is an overall feeling of agitation.

Beyond the headline making stories of Steven Slater and others, I believe this is indicative of the stress most people are dealing with and that there are many, many more people dealing with stress who have not ever really had to deal with stress before – white collar workers, in particular.

What I’ve seen in my companies (from our marketing agency to our current company) is that successful people can laser beam onto a goal better than most, and they can ignore pretty much anything else around them as they focus in on achieving the target set before them.

Well, isn’t that handy? (insert Church Lady voice here)

But, what happens when you don’t have a goal because the entire game board has been turned upside down? What happens when everything you thought you knew isn’t at all acting like what you believed?

Well, welcome to today. Welcome to Crankyville. Where Mr. and Mrs. Overachiever has turned into Mr. and Mrs. Crankypants.

What to do?

Quit trying to do everything the way you used to do it. That’s what is making you so cranky (and perhaps crazy and a bit OVER stressed). Start creating some new neuro pathways in your head and get back into the world – playing a new game.

You just might feel like you are 18 again!

And speaking of CRANKY… 108 degrees for days on end… this is how we feel down here in Texas! Swimming Pool anyone?