Rely on yourself.
It is not for you to wait for the outside world to smooth your path. You have to be your own savior. You cannot wait for the world to change for you. When you are feeling incessantly frustrated, the ball is in your court.
It may not be possible for you to change outside circumstances. You may not be able to remove the causes of all the frustration that you are currently experiencing, What you have to do is to change your take on the frustration.
Frustration arises in you because certain events are not going according to your plan or are not going according to your convenience. I do not want you to feel so frustrated and thwarted, and so I ask you to find a place of calmness within you.
Perhaps you need to give yourself a break. Perhaps take the day off. If nothing is going right for you today, do something else. Who is saying you have to fight frustration tooth and nail? Who is saying you have to get your dander up? Who is it that says that you have to continue in the frustration mode?
Throw your hands up then! Get away from it. Do something else. Remove yourself from the situation for a while.
When you are having a day where nothing seems to go right, go somewhere else. Work on something else, or stop working altogether. If something is too much for you, give yourself a time-out. Why spend a day in frustration? Make a holiday of it instead.
If you can’t find a pen that writes, maybe you’re not going to write today.
If you are trying to bake a cake, and you keep spilling things, change your mind. You do not have to bake a cake today.
Remind yourself that daily life is not meant to be intolerable. Daily life is meant to be pleasant. Is that a novel idea?
The daily world may not be working right today. If today is being a difficult customer, make an appointment to resume another day.
When you are waiting for a repairman to save the day, why are you astonished that you may have to wait? You have your priorities, and others have theirs.
Whatever your circumstances, when you find the circumstances intolerable, you may not be making the circumstances intolerable, yet you are the one finding the circumstances intolerable. Walk away, and change your mind. No one says you have to be intolerably frustrated. No one says that but you. Somewhere along the line, whatever you may be experiencing, you make a decision that you must not be treated this way, and you are not going to allow it. The thing is you don’t have to put up with yourself, beloveds, yourself.
You decided on the depth and breadth of what you can take and what you cannot take. It is you who is making a federal case of it.
Beloveds, save yourself frustration. When you must let situations take their course, let them take their course. You know that whatever it is that is intolerable to you doesn’t last forever. You know that sooner or later your car will be fixed, you will find a pen that writes, your ship will come in. Meanwhile, why put yourself through the traces? No one determines that you are at the end of your rope but you.
It is you who has become intolerable. You cannot tolerate your reaction any longer. You really don’t have to make a dire thing out of it. This too shall pass. Pass by the frustration now. The sun shines. Birds are singing.
All is right with the world.