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151 Quick Ideas to Deal With Difficult People
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151 Quick Ideas to Deal With Difficult People

by Carrie Mason-Draffen
April 2007
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h 8m
English
Career Press
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51Give Yourself a Break

Many companies give their employees breaks because they know it’s important for them to rest their bodies and their minds. Give yourself breaks, too, to help balance a particularly trying day of personnel conflicts with some worry-free time for yourself.

Rest during the day is a hard concept for hard-charging small-business owners to buy into. So many take better care of their businesses than themselves.

“Some of us get so used to operating in a state of anxiety that just trying to relax can create anxiety,” write Jim Claitor and Colleen Contreras in Build the Life You Want and Still Have Time to Enjoy It.

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ISBN: 9781564149381