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Polish Your Character

Character is another word for integrity, wholeness. It’s doing what you say you’ll do and being the same person in company as you are when you don’t think anyone is looking. With character, you live in a way you’re proud of in good times and bad. When you’re a person of character, an archaic-sounding phrase like, “I give you my word.” Doesn’t sound outdated when it comes out of your mouth. It sounds true.

Developing character is easier if you had high-character role models, in childhood, but you can acquire it even if you didn’t. Furthermore, past transgressions are irrelevant. I don’t know any flesh and blood person who hasn’t accrued some tarnish over the years. We’re talking about polishing character today and making it a present priority. Furthermore, this is a personal test and not about becoming the referee charged with evaluating other people’s behavior. Judging is an unbecoming trait that invites judgment back.

Begin this venture by seeing yourself as a person of high character Find little ways to build more of it, like giving back the extra change you might get from a clerk or reminding the waiter if he left the appetizer off the check. Observe and admire evidence of high character in people you know and those you read about. Yours is being observed and admired as well. In other words, “say what you mean and mean what you say.” How easy is that?

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