6 Things to Remember When You Get Angry

Separate Emotion from Action

You’ll likely want to pull a Godzilla and destroy everything in your path, but it’s important to take a step back and feel the emotion before you take action on it, especially when you feel extremely angry—let the anger take its course. Prematurely deciding to take action may cause more angst than waiting to give perspective to your anger.

After you’ve cooled off, you might find:

• the situation wasn’t as big a deal as you thought.
• in the long run it will lead to better things for you.
• it will take more than an outburst to solve the issue.

Or, you might find your anger was triggered by something completely different.