It’s a funny thing about the word “No.” Some people have no ear for it. They’re blind and deaf and never seem to get it or hear it. Or if they hear it, they don’t listen. They keep charging onward like bulls in a china shop, destroying more relationships and opportunities in the process. So let’s recap something. When someone tells you they no longer want to be your friend, or your partner, or your buddy, or your business partner and you can’t resolve things at that stage, then it’s …

In Anytown, USA or Anytown, The World, there’s a widget factory that employs 100 people. There’s production, shipping, administrative, sales, all the departments any factory would have. Things are going along as always until one day one of the administrative people gets sick. She’s the girl who orders all the supplies for the supervisors. It’s no big deal because she keeps things well-stocked and no one misses her.
The folks on the production floor hear about her illness and shrug.
“Doesn’t affect me,” they say, going on about their business.
The folks in …

Anger is scary. Especially if it is extreme anger–better known as rage.
Anger is saying to the jerk who cuts you off in traffic, “You freaking moron!” Rage is chasing him down and running him off the road with your car, or trying to. Or it’s following him into a parking lot then beating him up as he gets out of his car. It happens every day. Rage.
On the anger spectrum, annoyance is the least extreme, anger the mid-range and rage the ultimate extreme. Rage can’t be controlled by our thoughts. …