Not Too High, Not Too Low

The last couple of weeks got me thinking more about this saying and how truly fitting it is not only in our business, but life in general. We've been on the road the past few days for planning meetings for our various events. On more than one occassion, we've gone from true excitement about the potential relationships, to questioning whether there would be any relationship at all. The feelings swung in hours or in a matter of a few minutes.

I've always thought it would be interesting to chart and follow the ebb and flow of the mood of the staff during the planning of an event.  We invest countless hours in the planning of our events, as many do with their jobs.  The more time we invest, the more emotionally involved we become with the event and it truly becomes a personal challenge.  Not the challenge our participants face as they spend hours training and plannig for their race in order to finish, but the challenge of getting them all to the starting line.  The emotional investment can take its toll as the planning process goes on for months. 

During the planning process, we have many smaller goals or aspects of the event that we need to achieve.  We strive to achieve all of these goals, working to get the plan in place we feel will help the event be successful.  The results of these planning goals may be bette than we had hoped or may not turn out to be so rosy.  It is very easy to let these 'wins' or 'losses' get to you.  I'm probably guilty of swinging one way or another more than anyone in the office, but not getting too high after a win or too low after a loss is key.  Its a saying that is used quite often in our office, Jeff is always a good reminder.  Once you take a step back, the 'win' or 'loss' probably isn't as good or bad as you think.  In reality, especially with the 'losses', if things didn't turn out, if this is the worst thing to happen, its not that bad.  You still have time to prepare and plan.

Its hard at times for us, but continuing to think about not getting too high after a 'win' or too low after a 'loss', helps keep us in the middle so we can move forward with our planning.
 
Thanks again for reading.