"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.” Maxwell Maltz There's an old german idiomatic expression which may help many of us cope with certain life situations..."too soon old...too late smart". Forgive me. I don't speak german but this literal translation offers the gist of the sentiment. As you get older you realize that certain situations in life , certain of our major/minor life battles, are not really worth all the effort and fuss we attribute to them. Losing one's temper unexplainably is one type of emotional reaction many folks employ to confront their life crises. Sure we all lose our tempers now and then. It feels so good to vent our spleen....make our inner feelings public.....tell the world we've had enough of all the nonsense. This volcanic release of pent up emotions offers a short term em...