Ickie Group Work

I have the pleasure of working with the same group of people in my marketing class all semester long on this one project. At first, it started out okay, I started noticing everyone's personalitites, but for the most part they all seemed cool. It's always around the early mid-semester stages that you REALLY start to see how people opperate. I tell ya, my group has some "special" people in it. One is "the follower" just goes with the flow, doesn't ever really seem to have an opinion, one is "the aggressor" not afraid to say how they feel and takes charge, the last one is "the most-unreliable-irresponsilbe-airhead" and if you can't figure out how this person acts based on my lovely description....well read it again. And me, well I tend to try an be the organizer, makong sure we are all on task, turning things in on time, etc., and a peacemaker, don't usually rock the boat, and if there is any, I try to mediate as best i can, and i consider myself a very responsible member.

Lately for this project I was seriously stressing out- so much that it all came to a breaking point of me crying and my whole body was freaking out- eye burning, nose bleeds, throat tensing up, etc. It took me a few days...maybe even a while week, to get myself together. To understand that I can't control every aspect of this project, as much as I try, and that I can only do so much, and as long as I am doing my best, then that is okay. And i also realized that I need to not have this group crap on my mind 24/7, need to learn to relax, and not take it all on myself to do this and that. So far it's been working, not feeling as stressed, despite the fact that my group is slightly falling apart, i think the rest will be okay. thanks for listening. :)