I think I’m going into withdrawal. I’ve been without my boat for a month and just found out the paint for my new one is on back order. Two weeks for paint, two weeks for building and a week to 10 days for rigging. How does one deal with this type of loss? Not that this is extreme or anything. There are far worse things then a boat being late. While this does cut into my income somewhat it really is just and in convince.

So how do you deal with the little things in life that cause you frustration. One way is to ignore them but this seems to be a bad idea. Eventually you end up stuffing all these little things until you explode on a waitress because there is too much ice in your tea. You could try and keep things in perspective and keep telling yourself these little things don’t really matter and just grow up and be an adult. This isn’t a bad idea but it really doesn’t give you much to work with. Eventually you figure out you are an adult and frustrating stuff happens to adults to.

Best idea I have is to go ahead and be frustrated for a while and enjoy it. Give yourself permission to be highly frustrated, unbearably selfish, and angry and anything else you want for about 15 minutes. (I would not suggest you give yourself this freedom around your spouse or anyone else you care about.) After getting it out of your system gone on and be a grown up and enjoy life as it comes.

I’ve already done this when it comes to the delay on my boat and I feel much better. I also spent two days swinging an 8-pound sledgehammer on concrete and tile in a bathroom I’m redoing. This tends to help also.