From quiet days to days so busy taking a bathroom break can be daunting. Ultimately, it is how you handle the day, regardless of the rhythms.

A quiet day means catching up on chores or relaxing. Some people cannot let go. When relaxing, they are nervous.

Busy days keep us mentally and physically occupied. The volume of work can create its own stress.

A friend called my wife recently. She was crying, on the border of hysteria. She had been editing a movie when she lost everything. She only could repeat she had just lost 2½ days of editing work.

Once we calmed her, she began to think. In this situation, that was the key for her. When she stopped being emotional, she was able to approach her situation with clarity.

Taking a moment to review her actions, she found the missing edits and happily her work.

Good News

An experienced writer, she never has edited. This was a huge step. Frustrations were bound to happen. The interruption in her work was doing her a great service. If everything goes right all of the time, you never would know what to do when things go wrong.

That is why there are good technicians, editors and nurses. They know what to do when things go wrong. People are better off when they understand what can go wrong and how to fix it.

When I was working as a television technician for a network, we were several episodes of Family Feud. An error occurred between the studio and the director’s control booth. The issue needed to be promptly resolved because the production company was paying $5,000 a minute.

As the lead technician, I had set up the machines and the cabling. I spied the problem immediately, resolving it in less than a minute. . When I was learning a new piece of computerized equipment and no one had used it before, I was to teach others.

After a few days, my supervisor asked how everything was going. The equipment was working without errors. I told him I was concerned because nothing was going wrong. The supervisor asked what I meant. When everything works, you have no idea what to do when something goes wrong. Soon problems developed. I began to understand the equipment more fully and became a better technician and teacher.

Learning how to respond when equipment fails is one matter. Generally people who often are shown how do not retain the information. When one finds a problem and a resolution, he tends to learn more effectively.

A friend asked me how to do a difficult edit on an editing program. I explained what needed to be done. His eyes glazed.

I told him to edit. Blankly uncertain, he committed two clunker errors. Instead of telling him how to resolve his mistakes, I let him logically work his way through the process.

Hypnosis can help anyone to a clearer, stronger focus. It can help someone stay calm during an emergency, leading to clear thinking. That is why soldiers are trained under fire so that they will act in a methodical way rather than acting on emotion.

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