Don't Be a Cat Kicker!

Mr. B is the CEO of a big insurance company. When he left his house in the morning, he headed towards his car as usual. When he opened his car door, he noticed that he was seriously late for an early meeting he had scheduled with his sales team! In an effort to recover some of the lost time, he was speeding along the expressway around 90 MPH. He attracted the attention of a Highway Patrol officer, who wrote him a citation! When he arrived at the office 45 minutes late,Mr. B held the meeting. Throughout the whole meeting, he yelled a lot, insultingly pointed out their mistakes, and took his anger out on them.

The managers felt very bad after the meeting and took their anger out on their employees who took their anger out on the people who worked beneath them – and so the chain of anger reached the office maintenance man, who, at the end of the day, went home. His wife opened the door for him and asked, “why are you coming home so late,” and he yelled at her and said, “I didn’t go to the office to play I went to work! Don’t make me angry with your questions!”
The wife felt that the husband yelled at her for no reason and took her own anger at the situation out on her child who was watching television in the living room: “This is what you do all day, don’t you have homework to do?! I’m shutting the T.V off now!” The upset child left the house to let off some steam. He crossed paths with their cat and gave it a swift kick!
It seems to me that it would have been easier on everyone if Mr. B had just dropped over to the maintenance man's home and kicked the cat himself! (This a modified version of a lesson often presented by the late Zig Ziglar)

In this world, there are things that may anger or stress us out that pass from person to person. Each of us has the responsibility to understand this cycle of anger, to catch it in time and to stop it. When you find yourself in an upsetting situation, instead of passing your anger on to others, swap the negative feeling out for a positive one. Choose the feeling you want to feel more and spread it to others making sure it has lots of room in your life. We must learn to respond positively in negative situation!