Chill Out: Quick Tips to Cooling Off After a Heated Day

We all have bad days that leave us in a sour mood.

When we’re angry, we tend not to think straight. And that hardly gets anything productive done. So it’s in the best interest of your work to cool off and collect yourself before you return for your next shift in the office.

Here are a few ways to cool down after a particularly heated day:

Take out your anger, but not onto others

You’ve got to get anger out of your system. A bad day can accumulate the worst kind of anger, so it would be good for you to take care of that.

Try writing to express your frustration, or just to express yourself in general. You might be surprised by how much you can say through writing.

And while it’s not a good idea to take your anger out onto others, it is a good idea to try to vent it to them like talking about it. Call up a friend or family member you’re close to and try talking it out. Sometimes speaking about a problem lessens a lot of stress and grief it may be causing you.

Get some R&R in solitude

There’s absolutely nothing wrong in taking refuge in isolation to stave off anger, even for a little bit.

Isolation gets a bad rep, especially among those who love to socialize and mingle, but it’s actually a great opportunity to clear your mind and do what you want to do.

So give yourself some well deserved alone time. Get yourself lost in a book or if you’ve taken up writing from the last step, get some other drafts flowing that isn’t desk work for other projects… like writing a mystery novel!

Treat yourself well

You’ve had a positively dreadful day. So why not be the one to make it better for yourself?

Have a nice dinner, play some games, watch a show you’d meant to get back to when you had free time(which is now), and draw yourself a nice bath to wash out all that pent-up stress and ready yourself for the next day.

Going to work angry is the next recipe for disaster in the office. Who knows if you’ll be snapping at your company guard, to one of your co-workers, to finally possibly snapping at your boss, and the consequences of that are impeccable.

Chill out. The hottest days always have time to cool down.