When Things Get DICEY

When Things Get DICEY

Have you had in the past, did you ever lost your cool and DIDN'T manage yourself very well?  YES, absolutely, to most of us, that could have happened.  WHEN we are angry OR stressed, we DON'T always react in the best possible way.   And that is quite unfortunate because many of those scenarios are NOT that too murky OR complicate to contain or manage a situation even if seems to be an outlier.  To really regret things, the outcomes and implications WHEN we lost control of our own self, our emotions, our anger, all these could be the confluence of events that could spiral into one hell of a hullaballoo WHEN in fact, if handled, there is nothing to Get DICEY📗📙📘

And before you know it, you feel you're on that dreaded edge, that precipice for a foul-up, if NOT a disaster-in-the making.  And to avert such a scenario, NOT to our liking BUT at times, that would prompt us to ROLL THE DICE, even if things are kind of iffy.  BUT rather us being reactive and get embroiled in ROLLING THE DICE, let us figure things out HOW to nip it in the bud, to avoid it in the first place💦💦💦

So, let's go with the practical approach.  First and foremost, it pays that you are incisively sharp to detect the signs and symptoms WHEN you start to get worked up.  Those tell-tale signs like your heart rate increases, your chest tightens?  Sounds familiar.  It is because I've BEEN THERE, DONE THAT.  Once you notice those tell-tale signs, psychologists coined this term 'NAME IT TO TAME IT' wherein you would label your emotions as they're happening as that has the effect of taming the stress and anxiety in the brain and the body that the emotion is triggering.  Now, let's pull up things from our life experiences.  If you are able to take some deep breaths, step away and avoid reacting until you are in a better mindset, you'll surely be better off that way💧💧💧

Once you managed to have a fair control of the situation, assess as to WHAT you want to do OR say because you are angry OR stressed.  Maybe you feel like saying something mean OR snarky.  OR maybe YOU want to send a scathing email.  Rethink the underlying reasons WHY you want to do OR say [WHAT you want to do or say].  At that point, look at the potential ramifications, implications and consequences if you proceed to ROLL THE DICE and do WHAT you want.  Will taking that path offer you the much better direction?  If you go OFF on your co-worker, WHAT will happen?  To quote this one-liner, IF YOU WANT TO GATHER HONEY, DON'T KICK OVER THE BEEHIVE.   Think along these lines repeatedly before you decide to ROLL THE DICE, if at all. Alternatively, WHAT IF YOU DON'T?  WOULD your situation be worse than the status quo??? 

Our takeaway:  At the end of the day, ask yourself.  WHAT is it really you want to happen out of that situation?  Typically, you will find the answer once you closely examine and even estimate your initial response.  By then, you could even get a cue that you need to evolve things in such a way that doing things differently could either avoid a precarious outcome OR better still, if it will even lead you towards an improved situation thereafter.  Add a few intangibles like mindfulness as it could likely help increase your coping skills when getting embroiled in those situations.  Indeed, WHEN THINGS GET DICEY💥💥💥

When Things Get DICEY

 When Things Get DICEY

Good day, folks.  Today's piece should NOT come out as alarming given this barbed wires.  It's more to accentuate where we stand when things get DICEY.  Not often but surely, we all went through that wringer, that DICEY situation of being neither here nor there, those moments when you want to move forward but you're locked from doing it

Oh, I did had those 'DOWN' moments when literally you're DOWN and you want to rise up from the ashes but just CAN'T.  CAN'T not because you refuse but maybe the circumstances around you inhibit you from doing so.  Indeed, those DICEY moments suddenly freezes everything.

If you're still in school, you could have succumbed to your parents' marching orders that you should take this course and not that course.  But you wanted that but at the same time, you just CAN'T afford to displease your parents.  Or probably at the workplace where your job role is the least you like but you happen to be the family breadwinner.  And that's tough performing tasks you least like [or worst, tasks you abhor and detest].  Or if you're an entrepreneur whose business was so seriously impacted by this 2-year pandemic such that your P&L has been in the RED and yet you just do not have that intestinal fortitude to issue pink slips to your workers as you can't endure their financial hardships.

Of course, even when things get DICEY, as this poster says, you can still TEST YOUR LUCK but will you?  To TEST YOUR LUCK is akin to tossing the coin and that gives you a 50% probability to either PASS or FAIL.  Obviously, if your back is against the wall and there is everything to gain and nothing to lose, then go for it.  But do we really want to get into those DICEY moments? We could avert those DICEY moments, right?  How?  When things are getting awry, when you go off-track, those are the handwritings on the wall that should dictate on you to arrest the skid because that is your LAST CALL❗❗❗