Yourself. Your actions. Your purpose. You can make the best of a bad situation or the worst of a great one. Everything is in your hands in how you approach and how you deal with the situation at hand. That is you can control, that is where you can help people, that is where you can lead.
I was watching a lot of clips from Apollo 13 for a bit and one thing that kept striking me – their focus. I look at my desktop and sometimes see all the tabs of random thoughts occurring as I look at issues and problems and I think – “there is no way I could be in space, I’d have all these tabs and binders open just trying to figure out what to do.” Probably…
You only need to have meetings when a need arises. Anything else is put aside for IF a need arises that instead becomes a discussion on what people are up to and not really discussing a need per se.
Take everything off, decline everything. Whoever comes back asking for you to be at the meeting, add those ones back in. Everything else leave out.
A Guideline is a set of suggestions for how you should approach solving a Problem. A Policy is a set of directives for how you must approach solving a problem. A Rule is a standard you must uphold when solving a problem. We say things are policies or rules but mostly they are guidelines if we dig deep and we have how more freedom then we think in how to approach solving a problem.