Thoughts on handling stress and emotions when trying to solve problems in business.

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How to solve any problem.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

How's that for a hyperbolic title, right?

Solve any problem who's this guy think he is?

Well, I don't have like a step by step list in front of me, I'm really going to go off the cuff here of some of the main things that I've kind of naturally built into my lifestyle. But I noticed so many people I talked to, don't have some of the basic keys to solving a massive problem, especially when you're talking business.

Because when it's business, and you're the business owner, or you're an executive, you're one of the people in charge, it's really easy to get caught up with a problem, because it's your baby that's getting affected.

And it's your employees that are going to feel the burn if things don't go the right direction, you know, and everything else. So what are the steps to solving any problem, especially when it comes to business?

First step, guaranteed absolute, I don't know, anywhere around this step, at some point, I earlier is better. If this can be the first thing you do the best.

First step, calm down. I know you're never supposed to tell someone that's been emotional and erratic to calm down. But I'm telling you before it happens, you know, when you need to be calm.

What you have to come to grips with is that you can't do anything, right. When you're anxious, and angry and worked up and confused in an emotional way. You just it Nothing will turn out, right. I know you have all the right intentions. I know you have the perfect excuse for getting upset.

But nothing is going to work when you're in that state. So the first step you have to do is calm down. And you can't calm down by trying to force it. You can't calm down by having someone slap you around and say calm down.

You know ever in that scene, an airplane if you ever see an airplane, airplane, where the where the lady's freaking out and one person after another is lining up to slap or slap around.

Yep, people with with the boxing gloves on and stuff. It's that type of thing. It'll never work that way, what you have to do is find a corner, get away from everybody, and just wait for it to die down.

As if it's not going to happen on your time it's going to happen on its time. You gotta it's like, I always picture on volcanoes. You know, just getting ready to just add if you haven't erupted yet, it's getting ready to erupt.

And the only way it's gonna stop from erupting is you just sitting there and watching it and just letting it bubble, bubble, bubble, simmer, simmer, simmer until it just simmer down just gets down to nothing, right?

That's what it takes.

First step is you got to unplug, and you got to disconnect from the emotion. You got to calm down about it. You're not going to solve anything before that step. So quit trying quit thinking that you're going to come across something, we're going to power through it, it's not going to work.

First step to overcoming and problem is to calm down.

The second step is if you don't have the answer, you need to get a second perspective.

Even if someone knows nothing about where it is that you're working on.

This is why having having a spouse or somebody at home that is o...