By Chanel September

Good Day! How are you doing? I hope that you well and oh so good. Just a reminder…Today is the 28th of July 2008 and that of course means that it is the Monday Edition of the Morning Cruise…Wow I can’t believe that the end of the month is so so close…but I think that for many the end of the month brings about good and bad news the good news…you getting, paid the bad news…you’ve got bills to pay so as fast as that pay check comes in it leaves your pocket just as fast too… Boy oh Boy that’s life tho… So I just feel that I must share my stressful morning experience with you Ilost my keys :( but luckily found them again :)… I’m sure you have found yourself in the exact same predicament as I did this morning…after all the drama I believe my mind was maybe just maybe playing a trick on me…I don’t know…

Moving onto today’s show we had all the usuals such as you’re Word of the Day, your SA Q&A, and you’re Tip of the Day.

We also had interview with:

· We also featured an interview with SA music queen Vicky Sampson and she spoke to us about the Women’s Festival taking place on the 9th of August at Artscape.

Word of the Day:

EQUIVOCAL - unclear in meaning or intention; ambiguous

Trivial Question:

Q: Name the Cape Town delicacy which is known as the hotdog is of New York?
A: Gatsby

Tip of the Day:

A lot of people cannot handle confrontation and start to shake, they lose control of their voice pitch, and they want to hit out and cannot control their thoughts properly. It can be frustrating when someone is putting us down and you can’t argue back as you have got a touch of confrontation jitters. …So I’m wasting no time here are those very tips…Take a deep breath just before the confrontation - This lowers your heartbeat and blood pressure.

*Breathe a little slower, again - this lowers your heartbeat and lowers the amount of adrenaline running through your body.

*Take 5 minutes, if you can - and quickly rehearse whatyou are going to say to someone. Make key points of your argument.

*Get to know what triggers your anger and prepare a newresponse to that trigger - By doing this you are aware of the buttons people can push to elicit a certain response. When you know your own triggers it less likely that someone can push the buttons as you are prepared.

* Make the person aware of how confrontational they are being - Saying something like ‘why are you shouting at me?’, ‘Why areyou being so aggressive’. This turns the energy back on the personand lets them look at themselves for a minute, this might calm them down as a lot of people get lost in the moment and don’t realise theyare being aggressive.

* Another way is to turn all the attention back on theperson you are arguing with - ‘You seem really angry about that!’; ‘You look as if you’re really pissed off?’ Again thiscan have the same affect of point 5.

* Don’t get sucked into their arguments - The purpose of an argumentis to manipulate you into losing the argument thereby showing the other person they have won and they are superior. If you don’t get sucked in there is no argument to win, and you come out looking the better person.

Quote of the Day:

Abraham Lincoln - And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years

It’s time for me to love and leave you. You must have oh so super Monday. Let’s chat again tomorrow…Much Love…Peace.