Have You Been TRICKED Before?

Tricks – gimmicks as most will call it, is something we hate to fall victim to. Needless to say it always leaves you feeling down and quite foolish. But please do me a favor, cast your mind back to once when you were tricked, and ask yourself - what made me fall for it?

I know our world is full of tricksters today and they wont be leaving anytime soon. But it's my desire to make it easier for you to identify one of the most successful trickster of all time, and I can't emphasize it enough how helpful this will be to you.

The most successful trickster of all time happens to be a segment of our own personalities, it is canning and can be dangerously vicious in full gear, and as always leaves us with deep regrets. A watch out for this buddy will so improve the quality of life each one of us enjoys on a daily basis.

So what is it? - you ask. I will tell you. It is ANGER.

Anger is an emotional response most of us have no control over. Rephrase- anger controls most of us! Yet anytime you are angry it is said that 99% of your judgement is wrong. I don't have to tell you the consequences of acting on wrong judgements, do I? Well, maybe i should.

It is the worst means to accomplish any purpose whatsoever. I know a friend who gets angry when somebody tries to steal the right of way from him when he is driving his car. The other afternoon a man rushed past him, cut in short ahead of him and crowded him out of his rightful place in the traffic. My friend "got mad." When the traffic opened so that he could, he speeded up, caught up with the other fellow, rushed past him, and in the process threw a cup of coffee at him. Little did he know that a cop was right behind him. However he had also caught the other fellows front grail leaving a dent on his nice and expensive car. But the other car was an old rickety. He was pulled over, given a ticket and also left with the burden of fixing his own car. I bet he never budgeted for that. Also he knew that he had narrowly escaped worse, for that sort of thing is playing with disaster, as we can always see plainly enough afterwards.

When a man gets angry (mad, they call it these days) he sometimes does irretrievable things, tragic, fatal things! What he does always ranges somewhere between silliness and crime. The young man or girl who "talks back" to an employer, the teacher or parent or man or woman who gives rein to hot passion and says lacerating, cruel things or deals blows with a fist or a weapon, simply surrenders to an emotion and lets it run his life--usually to the point of shame, sometimes to the point of disgrace, and sometimes--once too often --to murder! That's the way murders are done--letting madness rule instead of intelligence!

But the worst of it all does not lie in the deed you do when you get mad. It lies in yielding the MANAGEMENT OF YOUR LIFE to emotion or passion instead of intelligence and patience.

In a lecture, Norman Angell, once said: "Most of the troubles in the world are caused by the fact that men act under the sway of madness rather than of intelligence. Every sort of disagreement, from private quarrel to world-wide war, comes from this tragic vice of men."

I guess you've been around for a while and you know well enough to follow the truth of this, I bet you can find enough stories in the news these days to illustrate it better. Also my guess will be you know your own life well enough to see revealing examples of it.

So my dear friend don't let anger trick you again. It's not worth it. There's no need to retaliate in life, its a waste of energy and valuable time. An ancient compilation says "you were created to have dominion", so take control of your life.

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