CHARACTER: ATTAINING PERSONAL VICTORY

George Matthew Adams once said: “Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. The gardener and the farmer alike each has to keep the weeding process alive. It is like that in the building and developing of character. No one knows our faults and tendencies better than we do ourselves, so that it is up to each one of us to keep the weeds out, and to keep all growth vigorous and fruitful.”

Before you can ever hope to change your circumstances, you must first improve yourself. If you want to lead a company, learn to lead yourself first. If you want to manage a family or a team, learn to manage yourself first. Self-mastery is the DNA of life mastery. The starting point is, as always, with your thoughts. The surface of your thoughts is your character. All of the thoughts which dominate your mind come together like the wires of a powerful cable to create your character. If you have weak thoughts, you will most certainly have a weak character. Be a strongly disciplined thinker and you are assured of a strong, unstoppable character. A character rich with integrity, courage and trustworthiness is the bedrock of lifelong success.

The Pleasures of Proactivity

You are responsible for everything that happens to you in your life. You can make your existence a shining example of personal and professional excellence or you can make your life miserable. “You can choose a nirvana or a nightmare.” The key is to realize that you have the power to see problems as challenges and to take any action required to have what you want. The quality of your life is determined by your interpretation of what happens to you.