Control Your Anger For Effective Time Management

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Control Your Anger For Effective Time Management

Control Your Anger For Effective Time Management

Anger, for example, gains you nothing and can cost you much. The time you spend being angry and resentful is completely ineffective and unproductive. On top of that, it creates a terrible distraction that prevents you from focusing on more valuable pursuits. Think, for example, of a driver becoming angry with another driver who has cut in front of him on the freeway. That anger can cause the driver to miss his exit, and then he will end up spending 20 extra minutes getting to where he was going. His anger has brought him nothing of any value, and it has cost him precious time.

Or consider all the time that is wasted when something goes wrong and everyone starts arguing about who is to blame. Certainly it is worthwhile to understand what went wrong and why. Yet merely having someone to blame is not going to set things straight. Most of the time spent assigning, re-assigning, shifting and spinning the blame could be better spent in moving forward.

Anger is something that can quickly take control of you and hold on to you for a long time, destroying your focus and effectiveness all the while. Anger is a fight against reality that takes place in your mind. Once the fight starts, it keeps replaying itself over and over again, draining your energy and stealing your time. Yet as powerful as it can seem, anger is nothing without your cooperation. You have chosen to hold the anger and you can just as easily choose to let it go. When you feel yourself filled with anger, stop and take a deep breath. Acknowledge that you are angry. And then acknowledge the reality of the underlying situation, of whatever it was that made you angry. Feel the anger fully, and wrap yourself tightly around it. As you do, realize that you are in complete control of that anger. Then choose to let it go. Let it fall completely away from you. Feel the lightness and freedom that come to you as a result. A big part of that freedom is the freedom to use your time much more effectively.

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