We all feel shitty sometimes, but sometimes these feelings start to linger. Oddly enough, negative emotions can turn into habits if you repeat them for long enough, creeping through your daily life like a silent & deadly virus (cue Jaws soundtrack!)
If you’re constantly beating yourself up, getting irritated easily, and defaulting to anger instead of understanding, you may want to read on:
7 Tips to Shake it Off:
1. Quit Rationalizing.
You can be mad and upset, but it’s unlikely that you can honestly justify getting pissed about everything. You are responsible for your surroundings. Rationalizing all that anger is hurting nobody else, but you.
2. Take some personal responsibility.
Stop making excuses for yourself or others. We can all make elaborate explanations on “principle” of why we deserve to be angry. But when it comes down to it, you can either be right or be happy. Which do you want? And if you’re angry with someone who keeps repeating a behavior you don’t like, you are responsible as well. You choose to continue putting up with it. When you teach someone to treat you a certain way, don’t be surprised when they do. Besides, is playing the role of the victim really getting you anywhere?
