Avoiding Anger.

Just learned an obvious but apparently necessary lesson in reading for my Business Communication and Report Writing class.

I will quote directly from the book:
"Expressing anger in messages - letting off steam - may sometimes help you emotionally. But anger helps achieve the goal of a message only when that goal is to anger the reader. The effect of angry words is to make the reader angry. With both writer and reader angry, the two are not likely to get together on whatever the message is about."

Well, I think that explains itself. And I believe, this would also apply to a blog. Letting off steam - my goodness do I love to do that with this blog, not to mention indulging in self pity. I treat this blog as a narrative journal. I know I get views, I know that someone out there is reading it, but it doesn't seem to register in my mind. I write for myself. In business, you write for the reader.

I suppose I should take that more to heart. In retrospect (hey look, I follow the theme of the last few posts, repeating a subject I have already worn out), the posts on this blog when I was angry - letting off steam - caused a lot of trouble for me.

I also read an email today (a typical forwarded chain message) talking about "three incredible words." It listed several different phrases of sorts, but I guess one stuck out. "Please forgive me."

Why did I never think of that?

Hah. Reminds me of the song "Why didn't I think of that" by Doug Stone.

It helps to have someone rational to talk to, but when you're fighting with the one rational person in your life, or who used to be in your life, it gets a little...complicated. Understatement of the decade. Mine, anyway. I don't know about yours.

I'm finding that my little trip to the ER on Thursday night took more out of me than I thought. When you don't have any consecutive days off, and when the only days off you have are filled with homework, makes it hard to recover. At least, in my experience. Lol.

Tax Help Colorado on Saturday went really well - I'm becoming more comfortable with talking to the clients. It helped a lot that my designated post was the Intake/Interview Process. You're not talking to people who've been waiting for six or seven hours, so you're not as afraid of saying the wrong thing. Not to mention, you talk to more people.

Anyway, I have to go get ready for my next class. Ta for now.

Oh, and song at the moment:
Lego House by Ed Sheeran (I'm a little obsessed with his music this week, but hey - he's good.)