Have you had enough of the difficult people in your life? You know those who are always gossiping, or making you the brunt of every joke, leaving you or others out of conversations or bossing you around?

Yep, we all have our share of difficult people, but when we are regularly required to work with difficult personalities, it adds to the stress and exhaustion at work and in our everyday lives.

Polly discusses what we can do about the difficult people in our lives. Ideally, we can avoid them, but we won't get away from all of them so here are some tips for managing.

In this episode, we cover approaches like:

And finally, remember, we can all be the difficult person at one time or another. It's worth slowing down and evaluating the circumstances to understand what we are adding to the situation so that we don't add more difficulty to an already challenging situation.

Check out some other ideas for dealing with difficult people from Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-the-questions/201503/20-expert-tactics-for-dealing-with-difficult-people

And for more ideas about how to live well, do good, and be happy join Polly and the Simply Said community at https://pollycampbell.com

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices