What better way to spend a few moments every day than by busting a few blocks? I challenge you to Bust A Block A Day. That means when you’re in a conversation or situation that suddenly makes you feel uncomfortable, as anger or fear or any one of 400 other often repressed emotions starts trying to get out of your system – STOP.
1) Pause and don’t say anything. Check out what you are feeling and what you are about to say and ask, “Is this how I really feel and what I really think or is this a block. Blocks are thoughts and emotions that you can’t control, most likely because you absorbed them from someone else.
2) Throw out the first reactive comments or feelings that come to mind – that would be the block.
3) Make a conscious choice about how you think and feel today and let that be your response.

You’ve done it! You’ve said good-bye to a block you have successfully busted.

Many times when we run into a block we go into auto-anger-pilot. We see auto-anger-pilot at work all around us every single day, which is why I call our wonderful, but stressed-out nation, THE UNITED STATES OF ANGER.

BLOCKBUSTER ANGER VILLAINS QUIZ

Please take a moment to answer the 7 questions below to learn which villain may be causing anger to complicate your life.

The seven questions correspond numerically to the Villains numbered and listed right below the questions. After each question please circle on a scale of 1 to 5 how much you experience the feelings described. (1 denotes seldom feeling that way, all the way to 5 representing feeling that way a lot.) When finished add up your score and see where you fall on the Anger Villain Scale.

1) Do you find yourself stuck in a chain of complaints – never totally happy with anything at work or in life, as if you’ve been tricked or misled?
0 1 2 3 4 5 ____________
Your Rating

2) Do you feel like you’re never quite enough – pretty enough, rich enough, talented enough, smart enough, lucky enough…to get the job done?
0 1 2 3 4 5 _____________
Your Rating

3) Has some event or person killed your self-confidence or joy at work?
0 1 2 3 4 5 _____________
Your Rating
4) Do you find it necessary to hide behind excuses or role-playing instead of just being yourself?
0 1 2 3 4 5 _____________
Your Rating

5) Do you feel like something or someone is always more powerful than you, leaving you helpless, hopeless – even victimized?
0 1 2 3 4 5 _____________
Your Rating
6) Has the ability to love what you do been largely replaced by fear or anxiety in your life?
0 1 2 3 4 5 _____________
Your Rating
7) Do you find yourself waiting for the right circumstances to move forward, yet the circumstances are never quite right enough?

0 1 2 3 4 5 _____________
Your Rating

Total Points_____________

SCORE RESULTS:
1-3: Congratulations! You are a hero and a master of your emotions.

4 –10: You are conquering the anger villains, but you are still vulnerable.
11-15: Unfortunately, you are a “victim” of anger But, there is hope.
16 and above: One or more anger villains are running your life. Moving forward demands disarming them.

Villains: 1) Saboteur, 2) Pirate, 3) Killer, 4) Mugger, 5) Monster, 6) Lost Love, 7) Sorceress.

Thank you for taking time to answer all of these questions. If you’d like to know more about these villains, please go to the Villains page on my website, blockedtoblockbuster.com/villains.html
Also, try busting a block. When you do, there’s a place on my Blog to share your block, how you busted it, and to get a response from me.

Happy Block Busting!