Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Control Your Reaction! How to Handle Work Conflicts Like a Pro

12 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston shares how to handle workplace conflicts by focusing on what you can control: eating, staying hydrated, talking things through. When a situation is outside your control, manage your reaction instead of the outcome.

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Okay, what is it that is actually overstimulating you? And then if it's something within our control, okay, how do we, how do we fix it? If you aren't eating, let's see how we can get some food back into you. If you're not hydrating, same thing. If there's issues at work, okay, let's talk about it. Let's work through the conflict, see how we can move forward. And just talking through the things that are within somebody's control And even for the things that are outside of our control, how we handle that and recognizing that, hey, this isn't in my control. It sucks. It makes me angry. I just want to kick and scream and hit things, but it's out of my control. All I can control is my reaction.