June 7, 2016
I had a stress meltdown recently. Not that this should have come as any surprise–after all, I run myself ragged; I spend way too many hours in front of the computer, the phone and other people, and not enough hours resting, exercising, trusting. Meltdowns for me feel like a mini-volcano: the anger, stress and frustration start to rise in my body, beginning somewhere in my stomach, like a lava flow about to erupt through my throat. I feel simultaneously pulled in all directions and yet too paralyzed to move in any one of them. I thought the issue was that I needed to systematize what I did (I do). Create some kind of operations manual (I should). But I couldn’t wrap my mind around it, as I couldn’t see the forest for the trees. Then my friend, colleague, and strategic cattle prod, Dawn Fotopulos of Small Business How 2, pointed me to an article written six years ago by Jim Collins–and I was whisked into the world of the “stop doing” list. WOW! What a life-saver.…
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