Are you managing your emotions? Or are your emotions managing you? One way to answer this is by listening to the feedback from the people you love and respect in your life. Are they on edge when you're faced with a stressful situation? Are they bracing themselves for your next reaction? Another way to consider this is to imagine you are stopped at a traffic light. You see the car behind you approaching a bit too quickly to stop in time. You watch helplessly as their front end meets the back end of your car. What happens after that? How do you react? Is it positive? Would you rather not say? Most of us don't have to imagine this scenario; we have lived through it - hopefully without injury and with minimal damage to our car. But fender …
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