That’s the first rule
If you find yourself in a hole then stop digging
But how many times do we go against that?
When something goes wrong, how do we respond?
Get emotional, feeling worked up, and yet, we don’t even have a plan or a next step or course of action
We react instead of choosing how we are going to respond
So don’t make stuff worse, that doesn’t help anyone (and especially not ourselves)
Don’t add fuel to the fire, don’t react for the hell of it. Stop digging. Think before we act, and even more importantly – plan our way out of whatever mess we got ourselves into.
Joe DiAndrea 