Crisis Management

What we call Crisis Management , is not management of crisis. It is an expression which really means this : you create a crisis and then manage it.   You first create a crisis and then manage, or  try to manage and seek help …some people attract crisis, some people create crisis.

If you analyse the personal life of any one person, you find that most of the crisis that the person has faced in his or her life were caused by the individual more often than not . Suppose, I have to make a decision, a decision which is painful, I generally postpone . As one grows up from childhood, one picks up this particular thing, a habit to go in for what is immediately gratifying and postpone what is painful. Even in our schools, elementary, high schools, and also college, we are told by the teachers, do first the easy ones and deal with the difficult ones later. If it is purely based on time management, then I can appreciate, but I find this is entertained, even in enjoyment …

This is a particular personality trait, going always for the pleasant and postpone the painful. In life everyone has got to make painful decisions . There is no such life which is always pleasant. Whether it is the life of a Maharaja or if it is the life of a beggar, in every life, you find there are occasions when they had to make  decisions which are not always pleasant…

Anything that involves little pain, little effort, is always postponed, and that is why you find there is a crisis...We create a crisis and go to Gods and ask them to manage it...

One has to recognise the main source of crisis, ...which is procrastination, and going in for the pleasant and always trying to avoid the unpleasant. Only when one recognises this, he can overcome it .