The moment when the wind reveals who we really are
The sea and the wind
The sea has its days of calm and its stormy days. In the early stages, the boat moves along peacefully and the crew communicates in harmony. Everyone plays their part, adjusts the tone of his voice, measures his gestures... everything seems in its place.
But when the wind changes, When the waves swell and the bridge becomes unstable, the masks fall off.
This is when behaviour ceases to be a choice and becomes a reflex.
The storm doesn't create character - it reveals it!
And it is precisely at these moments that the stress management becomes essential: knowing how to stay on course when the wind picks up.
Calm and the right profile
On days when the sea is calm, we sail in full awareness. This is the time for the right profile, the one we choose to show, shaped by our motivations and the colours we want to share with the world.
🟡 Looking to be visible, to inspire and create enthusiasm.
🟢 Expresses the need to belong, to unite and to forge links.
🔴 Takes the orders, driven by the desire to move forward things.
🔵 Seeking coherence and rigour and the security.
When the calm sea, we are able to adjust our behaviour to suit us. aligning with others, with the environment, with what is expected of us.
It is balance between what we are and what the world needs we are.
But all it takes is for the wind to change... and the stress management becomes the real rudder.
The storm and the return to nature
At times of stress, fatigue or intense emotion, the adapted profile gives way to the natural profile - the emerging one without filter or calculation.
🟢🔴 The captain is usually a good listener can, under pressure, become more direct.
🟡🟢 The enthusiastic communicator can keep quiet if he feels the boat is in danger.
🔵🔴 Analytics can take refuge in detail, in search of control.
🟢🔵 The cooperative can resisting change and seek refuge.
La stress management is not to suppress these reactions, but to understand what they reveal. Stress, like a storm, doesn't change who we are: it just makes us feel better. exposes what was hidden. It's a return to essence - to the colour that guides us when there's no time to think.
The captain in turmoil
I remember an episode in 2010, when I was a sales manager. During a telephone meeting with a customer, with the loudspeaker on, a colleague is suddenly entered in the room, furious, demanding explanations. He had received a insulting e-mail, apparently sent from my computer. We later discovered that it was a bad joke another colleague.
At that moment, with the client on the line and the tension rising, I felt the wind rise up inside me.
But the professional - my adapted profile - I kept my tone calm and asked the employee to leave. The client didn't notice a thing. When the meeting was over, the storm raged within.
My natural blue and green coordinator profile took the helm: rational, contained, focused on understanding what had happened.
My gaze hardened, my voice went cold.
A colleague bumped into me in the corridor and, on seeing me, asked me if everything was OK. I replied briefly before going to confront the two people in charge - the one who had joked and the one who had interrupted the meeting.
On the outside, calm. Inside, a storm. A real lesson in stress management :
- control without stifling
- channelling without exploding
Calm after the storm
With hindsight, I've realised that this moment was a mirror. Self-control is not the absence of emotion, but the emotion management. And even when the sea seems calm, there are always invisible currents.
Natural behaviour is like this current: invisible, but constant. In calm seas, we choose our course and show the best of ourselves. In a storm, it's instinct at the helm and reveals who we really are.
Learning to manage stress means learning to recognise these trends before they become waves.
What the wind reveals
Life is not always peaceful. It's in the storms, the crises, the conflicts and the unexpected that we discover what makes us tick. that resists us when everything else is wavering.
Know your AEC DISC profile helps you to understand how you react when the wind blows hard - and to develop better stress management before the boat capsizes.
👉 What about you? What do you do when the storm arrives? Do you let the wind blow you away or do you adjust your course?
- Exploration in Colour 🌈🧭
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