I try to not resent/hate people for all the various reasons I tend to, because I know it's not ideal and everybody hates everybody else too much and it doesn't help anything. I've found that if I just see their ugly character traits as "ugly" then it helps not to hate them. That's actually what they are, ugly, and why hate something just because it's ugly?

Another interesting thing is someone said the other day that others are there to remind you of what you don't want to be, that it's not as personal as you think, or something like that. I think I've had a similar thought years ago.

Another good practice is to look inward and see why someone's behavior offends you. Sometimes it's because you see yourself in their behavior and you don't accept that part of you. Or if they insulted you or got angry with you, why does that hurt? In the case of insulting, is it because of a fragile ego? Maybe
that's something one could look into and improve upon? (I was going to say more about this but I can't remember what I was going to say :P)

I think think we get angry when someone directs negativity at us because our first response would be to feel grief that we did something wrong to make them feel the way they do (there's a lot more love beneath the veil of human existence than we know), but we can't afford to feel grief every time someone directs negativity at us because it happens too often, so instead we get angry at them for trying to make us feel that way.

Another way I try to improve myself is to try to regain some of the sharpness I lost over time by solving mathematical problems in my head. Like this morning I figured out what the ratio would have to be between the radius of an optical disk and the radius of the burned part for the area of the burned part to be equal to the area of the unburned part. (My original hunch was correct - sqrt(2)).. but then I realized I forgot to take into consideration the hole in the center. =P

I also always mean to eat less to lose some of this belly fat, but it seems every day I get bored as sh*t and cave and eat when I'm not hungry. =p