As men, all of us get angry from time to time. It is a natural human emotion and we are deluding ourselves if we try and pretend that we don't experience it.

The mark of a man is not in whether he gets angry or not but in how he chooses to behave when he gets angry. The important concept here is the concept of choice. You cannot control your life so completely that you can prevent yourself from getting angry. You can however choose how to respond to that anger.

Cast your mind back to when you were angry and what you chose to do. It is a rare man who can look back and not feel embarrassment at some of his behaviour when angry. Spend some time thinking on how it reflected on you as a person. If you were violent, either physically or psychologically, do you think that made others think what a mature man you were? Probably it made them initially scared and ultimately made you look like a little boy throwing a tantrum.

There are ways of handling anger that are mature and responsible. Find someone who you trust and talk to them about how angry you feel. Get it off your chest and move on. Too many men waste the greater part of their adult lives being angry. You can choose not to take that path.

Now is the time to prepare yourself. Think to yourself "The next time I am feeling angry I will choose the mature path"