You do realize you're in charge of your emotions right? I've been telling my coworkers this for a year now and I just heard Ronda Rousey say it in a two year old interview. You get to pick your emotions! You get to pick who has the power to affect your mood! It's not hard! While I'm on the stump, here are a couple more concepts:
1) "Can't" is a four letter word. I don't use it anymore except for example. Can't is a cop out for pussies lacking the intestinal fortitude to achieve at a higher level.
2) the concept of not having time is horseshit. You are in charge of every minute of your day. You choose your priorities and good you use your time, but you do have time.
John Hartup taught me in fifth grade I can do whatever I want to, I just have to realize there are consequences for everything.
I choose whose opinion I care about. This is a tactic I have recently developed that helps a lot. I was raised to be concerned with others opinions of me but lately I've discovered how freeing it is to say "Your opinion of me is of no importance."
I have also figured out that most of the time someone is grumpy with me or toward me it has little to do with me and almost everything to do with them. This helps me separate my actions and reactions from their personal situation.
I don't form opinions on many things that don't matter. As I discussed there are a finite amount of moments in the day, and I'm judicial about what I spend time thinking about. Along the same vein, many things can exist without me forming an opinion on the spot. I guess that's just called but giving a hoot.
I'm not saying these are good or productive ways to approach life or that in some kind of genius, but they have worked for me. Perhaps it'll start a train of thought that could be useful to you, I hope so!
