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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mr.white" data-source="post: 12628568" data-attributes="member: 376566">MANAGE YOUR TEMPER Anger never lets you win     Every time you lose your cool, you lose control and at times the cost could be quite high. So learn to manage your temper.As a little kid growing up on a sheep farm near Christchurch, New Zealand,R>Martin was a bright, hardworking boy, prone to losing his temper and gettingangry. He would end up saying harsh words to his friends and family without often realising the impact of his angry outbursts.Intent  on mending his son's ways, Martin's dad decided on a plan. He gave his  son a sack of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper,  hemust hammer a nail into the wooden fence at the back of their  farm. The son agreed. The first day, he hammered 35 nails into the  fence. As the dayspassed, the number of nails hammered into the  fence gradually decreased. It was quite a task going all the way to the  back of the farm and hammering anail. Young Martin figured it was easier to just control his temper, and not get angry.And  then, one day, he did not lose his cool at all. A day of no nails!  Delighted, he told his father about it. And the father said that for  everyday that Martin did not lose his temper, he should pull out a  nail from the fence. Martin did as told, and some months later, all the  nails in the fencehad been removed. Martin was pleased. And so was his dad.The  father led young Martin to the back of the farm and pointing to the  wooden fence he said "You have done well, my son and I am proud of you.  Butnotice the holes left  behind by the nails? They will never go away. The fence will never be the same again. It's like that with our anger too. Whenwe  are angry, we say things that leave a scar. And no amount of  apologizing thereafter can ever remove those scars. Remember that!"It's  a lesson Martin has remembered all his life. And it's a lesson we would  all do well to take to heart too. Keep your cool. Don't lose your  temper.And you will see a significant improvement in your  relationships. People will like you more, they will respect you a lot  more - and you will findthat hardly anybody gets angry with you. If  you find yourself losing your cool often, maybe you should set yourself a  punishment equivalent tohammering nails on the fence. Like Martin,  you too might then find yourself controlling your temper a lot better.  Good to remember that you can neverreally win when you get angry. You always lose -your temper, your cool and  a whole lot else besides.</blockquote>

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