Manage your mood and emotions to stay productive
How to deal with people who just would not shut up?
Step 1: Quickly take on the responsibility to manage your own time, energy and effort
Step 2: Use a breathing technique to calm yourself down
Step 3: Inform him earlier that you have very little time
Step 4: Express to him that you value the friendship - you prefer a dialogue vs a monologue
Step 5: Treasure the friendship and transform every experience to make it favourable and win-win for both of you
How to avoid being disturbed mentally?
Step 1: Navigate your mind so that you have a calm state
Step 2: Observe your thoughts, words, feelings, and behaviours
Step 3: Isolate the issue that you are facing and make it easily manageable into bite-sized parts so that the problem becomes smaller
Step 4: Substitute negative thoughts and fill it with positive thoughts
Step5: Empty the trash and let it go. Drain out all that pent up frustrations and toxic negativity.