Are you someone like this? Do you wait around hoping to achieve something perfect? Let me tell you a little secret. It’s never going to happen. We simply do not live in a perfect world. Let me tell you something else to try to motivate you.

The ad depicts people in various predicaments, including a bewildered boy called on by his teacher, a dad trying to change two babies’ diapers at same time, and surgeons about to perform an unfamiliar procedure. Each of these people, at critical moment, pushes a big button with word, “Easy” written on it, to get them through a difficult situation. (Then, of course, you are reminded that doing business with Staples is easy.)

This commercial got me thinking, “What if there were an Easy Button for my inner brat?” Just one zap, and it’s gone.

I wish. Unfortunately there is no sure-fire way to banish inner brat altogether.

But there is one simple, yet powerful tool to stop inner brat dead in its tracks, especially when you’re angry, fuming, pouting, embarrassed or feeling jealous. This tool is following sentence:

“It’s not about me.”

Commit that sentence to memory. It’s going to come in handy: -- when people make sarcastic remarks -- when they don’t return your phone calls -- when they brag about themselves -- when they nag you -- when they don’t thank you for a gift or favor -- when they take advantage of you

Zap. “It’s not about me.”