Frustration of the moment
Stop conversing and start doing.
(Bringing in more people to converse is not doing. Generating more ideas is not doing. Creating proposals is not doing.)
At the end of the day, you will still remain shifted from center in the work you “do.” Recognize it and move on.
“Give a person a fish, that person will eat for a day.” Teach a person to fish without first giving them a fish, they’ll spend the entire time fishing with a growling stomach and you won’t have succeeded in accomplishing anything because the person will resent you for not doing what is appropriate for the situation — which is to end their current hunger.
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Daniel Ross-Jones serves as Minister for Youth & Young Adults at First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, United Church of Christ. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area for a time still measured in months, he is frequently getting lost and discovering treasures of a landscape very different from his Upper Midwestern roots. Green Jello Hotdish is a blog exploring the intersections of his days. 
