[/column] [column width=”61%”]Do you have a hair-trigger anger response to certain circumstances? Do you find yourself getting so frustrated and stressed that or you do or say things that you later regret? If so, time to get those big emotions under control, and I’M SO MAD! will show you how.  Excerpt:

We often think that the way we react to a given circumstance is somehow set in stone.  “These idiots completely screwed up my project, everything’s out of whack, I just lost my best employee – of course I’m stressed out!”  We normalize the stress, using the situation to justify the feeling and, subsequently, the behavior.  However, your reaction is a CHOICE, not a given, and you actually have other choices.

This isn’t to say that some situations don’t induce anger, frustration, or stress.  Rather, once those feelings arise, you have a vast array of choices about what you do next.  Do you sit there and bad-mouth people to your friends?  Spin a situation over and over in your head?  Talk about how awful future problems are going to be because this present-day problem screwed everything up?  Those are all choices…