Tag Archives: Personal Development
Manage Anger by Doing What You Love
If you do what you love everyday anger has less room to give you problems. Doing what you love gives your life a sense of purpose and joy, and anger doesn’t thrive in a joyful environment. If you don’t know what it is that you love to do, an exciting … Continue reading
Anger Management Meditation
A lot of anger management problems come from not being able to deal with ordinary life inconveniences. We lash out in anger in an attempt to alleviate our suffering. But as this fun and insightful anger management cartoon shows, trying to fight with life only leads to more and more … Continue reading
The Pursuit of Happiness
Often times our anger management problems come from not pursuing our life goals. We feel trapped and think there is no possibility to change our situation and in response become resentful, frustrated, and angry. You may have seen the film “The Pursuit of Happiness” and remember its uplifting messages. Of … Continue reading
If you think you can’t do it, don’t believe it!
We have so many opportunities for life and taking chances and going for what we want, putting ourself out there for what we believe in. We have these opportunities, but it is up to us to take them. If we don’t try, if we don’t take the risk, we’ll stay … Continue reading
Do What You Want to Do, ‘Really’ What you Want to Do
If you have anger management problems, it could be because you are living someone else’s life. Living your life ‘your’ way is not easy, because the norm is that we look outside ourself to learn what we are supposed to do. How many of us when we were young had … Continue reading
Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
This video by Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Computer is not about anger but is a calling and an inspiration to raise oneself up to ever higher levels. Steve tells ‘three stories’ from his personal life and each story contains nuggets of wisdom and love. Overall a passionate appeal … Continue reading
Rather than Resist Life, Create it
An unusual approach to anger management is to turn your attention away from your problems, defocusing on all the things that you and/or others thing is wrong with you and your life, and instead to look forward to how you want your life to actually be. When you are focused … Continue reading
Mindfulness, Stress Reduction and Healing
This 75 min talk by Jon Kabat-Zinn is on mindfulness based stress reduction and its power to change your life.
