Sorry, no vlog this week. Being busy with the magazine project has pushed filming to the backseat, actually more like the trunk. Now this brings me to the point of this blog.
Staying Calm, Cool and Collect.
My philosophy when it comes to CreComm.
We all know, or at least us CreComms do, that CreComm is tough. It's most likely the most stressful and time consuming thing we've done with our lives. And make no bones about it we're all going through our own personal hell right now. Trying to juggle every assignment we have, video montage, IPP proposal and panel, magazine project, script writing, magazine fair, magazine printing. Of course then add on working part or full time, having a home life, and trying to find time to eat, sleep and have a social life. It's tough, but we're all managing well enough.
There are a lot of freak-outs in CreComm, things go wrong, time gets eaten up by other things, procrastination or you just forget. But freaking out just adds to a bad situation and only makes it worse.
My philosophy is to just stay calm. Above all else, no matter what happens just stay calm. It's a tough thing to do, but trust me, it makes getting back on the horse a much less painful and quicker experience.
For example, a lot of you know that last week as Lennie and I were working on our magazine project and finishing up for the day we lost 10 pages of our magazine when our file got corrupted while we were backing up some of my pictures. Yeah it sucked, and it put us back almost an entire day. It was the second worst thing that could have happened, but I just stayed calm, in fact I laughed. It wasn't a funny situation, but laughing is way better than loosing your mind.
Believe me it's so much more beneficial for the sanity of the group to just stay calm. There is no point in sitting there being angry because you have to do something over again. Just get over it and move on.
Stay Calm, Cool and Collect everyone.
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Great post- I agree. It's important not to let stress get the better of you and ruin your productivity. But I think there's a balance that's important when it comes to this-- by never getting upset, you run the risk of coming across as if you don't care about anything, which could put people off. Taking things seriously and freaking out about them are two different things.
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