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TWO INNOVATIVE IDEAS ON HOW TO TEMPER YOUR TEMPER IN THIS UP AND COMING YEAR
Over 100 years ago, 116 to be exact, 107 buildings in the city of Boston burned to the ground. That was a tragedy, I am sure you will agree, but why it happened is an even greater tragedy. You see, in the spring of that year, 1894; the Baltimore Orioles had traveled to Boston to play a routine baseball game.
Unfortunately what happened was hardly routine.
John McGraw, the manager of the Baltimore Orioles, got into an argument with the Boston third baseman.
Almost instantly all the players from both teams emptied out onto the
field and words soon erupted into fist fights and wrestling matches.
Within minutes the war fare spread to the stands and now it was one big battlefield.
Somehow in the melee the bleachers were set on fire and before the
evening was over, the ballpark had been completely destroyed. From there the fire spread…and yes…you guessed it…That is how those 107 other Boston buildings burned to the ground.
When we fly into a temper we do quite often make a poor landing, now don’t we.
We all have tempers…some more some less…so here is an innovative and somewhat radical way to handle the problem.
Buy a tape recorder and the next time you take off on a tantrum, press the record button. Then, later on, when you have calmed down listen to the playback.
We
all have convenient memories as to whose fault an argument was or a
complaint that got out of hand…this way, there it is, in living audio
with no editing.
Yet another way to put more of your angers on the back burner.
Slow down. It won’t be a miraculous cure for all your anger woes, but if you take more time to consider problems you will spend less time trying to solve new problems
Almost forty years ago, my wife Tucky and I bicycled 550 miles across Europe with 55 young people. It was not as fast as a tour bus but oh how much more revealing and fun.
We really saw things - the landscape wasn’t a blur.
We went through villages slow enough to smile at the townspeople and be
welcomed by their smiles in return; slow enough to smell the all the
goodies being baked in the local pastry shop.
On this trip, we obviously weren’t a bunch of impatient Americans in such a rush to get to the next place that we didn’t properly enjoy where we were.
Therefore, pray
for the It isn’t easy, this patience thing but we will be so much
better off if we work at acquiring the ability to idle our motor when we
feel like stripping our gears.
Or realizing that one gets a chicken by hatching the egg rather than by smashing it. Or accepting with action that a minute of patience can produce years of peace.
QUOTES FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN BOOK
Some
people went to any and all extremes to hear these men, Douglas and
Lincoln, debate. One group traveled by what we today would call a
travel trailer. It was a wagon pulled by thirty oxen, upon which stood a
log cabin with a hickory tree actually growing by the door.
They even brought what must have been a family pet, for a coon could be seen residing in the tree.
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