Take a break, get things done
The best way to deal with being frustrated when you are trying to get something done is to stop trying to do it for awhile.
Frustration is a block that grows and grows in time. The more frustrated you allow yourself to get, the less able you are to do anything.
Things don’t frustrate you. You frustrate yourself by what you say or think. Therefore, the only way to reduce frustration is to do something over which you have some power.
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What is that power? You don’t have the power to solve the task but you do have power over yourself.
So, by choosing to put aside whatever is frustrating you, you are doing the one thing you can do for yourself.
“But that seems too easy,” some people may think. It seems easy, but it isn’t. It is hard to stop frustrating yourself since it seems to fuel itself. We learn to frustrate ourselves early in life, although we usually don’t learn we are the cause of our own frustrations for many years.
You can prove to yourself how easy it is to deal with frustrations by working on the crossword puzzle in Western People magazine. Do you do the crossword puzzle on a regular basis? What happens when you get stuck on a word? You likely keep pressuring yourself to figure out the answer. Do you get relaxed or tense when you do this? Do you tend to think calmly or is it sometimes hard to think at all? Do you usually figure out the answer when you are feeling frustrated and under pressure? Likely not.
Put the newspaper down. Do something else for half an hour or more. Then come back and pick it up again. The puzzle hasn’t changed but your mind has. The frustration has dissolved because you weren’t focusing on it. And you have a much better chance of solving the puzzle.
