Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY
The best way to eliminate anger of all kinds is to 
accept responsibility
.
The acceptance of responsibility immediately short-circuits the
emotion of anger. All the energy that anger requires for its existence
is cut off. As soon as you say,
“I am responsible!”
your anger stops.
Because of the Law of Substitution and the fact that your mind can
hold only one thought at a time, you cannot accept responsibility
for your situation and be angry at the same time. The idea of blame,
on which the emotion of anger is based, is canceled out by the deci-
sion to accept responsibility.
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