Feeling of Despair -- coming out of it.

Last weekend was a tough one. It was one of those moments when you feel tremendous pressure to complete something in time. How do you feel when you reach a long awaited milestone and when you were thinking everything is fine, a last minute glitch happens and spoils the party, delays the milestone.Especially, when the progress of the project depends on this and a big sum of money is involved. Literally I was feeling like "My ass on the burner".I was so upset about this.But there was no time to even feel bad or sit and whine. Hmmm...thank god. My team plunged into firefighting mode and worked relentlessly, somehow solved the problem and made it happen. After a couple of days we saw some light and we reached the milestone.

Now feeling little relieved. Hmmm...now the sight is set at next milestone(s). That's life. you got to keep running.

Again this reinforces some of my beliefs:
1. Always be prepared for something go wrong.
2. Dont panic...when a problem hits you hard.Dont run from the problem. Find how to solve it.
3. Team is more important than the individual. If you have a solid team with dependable guys, half the problem is solved.
4. All problems are passing clouds, if we handle them in the right way.