Posts Tagged ‘anger’

Defusing a Relationship Bomb

Relationship Bombs. We hit them all of the time - or rather they hit us. They are tensions ready to snap, anger ready to boil over or cold, calculated vengeance waiting for opportunity. A relationship bomb is on the brink of exploding in most confrontations because people simply don’t understand each other.

This is our first mistake. We look at a conflict and all we… » Continue

December 11 2007 | By Tom | Tagged: anger, Communication, relationship | 14 comments»

6 Tips To Reach A Human Operator

Get past annoying and time wasting dial selections over the phone with these tips to get through to a live operator. They come from the GetHuman database of shortcuts for more than 500 individual call centres. These tips are good for general use when those robot voices are driving you mad.

Interrupt. Press 0 (or 0# or #0 or 0* or *0) repeatedly, sometimes quickly. Unfortunately the same keystroke does

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June 14 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: anger, phone | 12 comments»

Postcards from over the edge

A few potentially useful thoughts about work and working life.

When you’ve reached enlightenment, your boss will still be a jerk. The good news is that it won’t bother you any more. The secret of maintaining a calm mind is letting go of emotions and refusing to waste energy on fretting about whatever you can’t change. The world is an unsatisfactory place; your boss is an unsatisfactory person. Life is good.
There

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May 14 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: anger, anxiety, behavior, personal, relationship, work | 11 comments»

Tips for squelching your anger

Anger is the worse emotion you want in your life. It affects yourself, or it may affect others as well. It is unavoidable, but luckily it is controllable. Gretchen Rubin at The Happiness Project suggests 10 tips to control your anger. Those strategies are working for her well - pick several and try and see if they work for you as well: