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How
well do you manage your anger?
- Losing
your cool at the drop of a hat these days?
- Urge to
kill?
Anger management
is a hot topic today. Everyone is in a hurry thanks to the pressure
to get more done in less time. No one is immune. The best we can
do is damage limitation.
- Only a
few people naturally get angry very easily
- Most people
get angry because their anger threshold is too low.
- It's because
so much frustration has built up that you have a short fuse.
- Instead
of looking inside for the cause of negative feelings, we blame
something external to us.
- Raise
your threshold for getting angry.
- Examine
what has led you to carry around so much frustration.
- Putting
the causes down on paper make. them less nebulous.
- Break
the causes of your frustration down into bite size pieces.
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What else can you
try to better manage your anger?
- Ask yourself
how you could react differently to these issues.
- Make an
action plan to change what you can change.
- What is
easiest to change is how you view situations that are upsetting
you.
- Some causes
of frustration will be work related, some personal.
- Knowing
that we all face such issues means youíre not necessarily
odd.
- Catch
yourself when you feel your anger boiling up.
- Write
down why this event is provoking you.
- What is
it about your attitude that makes it possible for you to feel
anger in this situation?
- If you
can't change it, how can you view it differently?
- Ask yourself
if there isn't some other way you could react to it.
- Convince
yourself that there are no objective causes of anger - you could
react differently if you really wanted to.
- No one
can force you to feel anything.
- Force
yourself to look for positives in every situation.
- Try to
find a funny side to upsetting situations.
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A
very comprehensive site on anger management.
To help you improve
your self esteem, read some of these other pages:-
All
pages written by Mitch
McCrimmon, Ph.D. and copyright © Self Renewal Group 1996-2008
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