Hot situation? Stay cool!

Please enjoy this excerpt from my upcoming book:
Keep Cool in Hot Situations: Start to Thrive When Conflict Arrives

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We’ve got a range of ways to respond when someone is being thoughtless, unfair, or rude to us.

Walking away is one of them.

On the outside, walking away may look passive, but walking away from a combustible situation, not out of politeness or fear of confrontation, but out of strength, actually shows some mega-power.

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Famous no’s in history

Beautiful someone, “no” can change the world.
In fact, sometimes it’s the only thing that does.

 

Rosa Parks

On December 1, 1955, 42-year-old Rosa Parks stepped onto a bus in Montgomery, Alabama on the way home from a long day of work. She paid her fare and took a seat. Contrary to many accounts of exactly what happened that day, when a white passenger demanded that she give up her seat because the whites-only section was full, she refused not because she was tired from a long day of work (though she was), but because she was tired of being treated this way. “The only tired I was,” she wrote in her autobiography many years later, “was tired of giving in.”

Her quiet but firm refusal to give up her seat and her subsequent arrest for this simple act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In appealing the arrest, Rosa Parks spoke truth to power and openly challenged the legality of segregation. The boycott lasted 381 days and in the end, this Read More