7 Steps to Shape Great Character

 
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In This Issue:
     Quotes of the Week
     7 Steps to Shape Great Character
     Bookmark - Triggers
     Inspirational Words
     Spiritual Centre
     Story Time
     Time to Smile
     Feedback
 
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Quotes of the Week

"It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"If you love people, they will draw near you ó you will have no difficulty in winning them." - The Urantia Book

"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good." - Malcolm Gladwell

"I only know that I know nothing." - Socrates

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7 Steps to Shape Great Character
by Brian Tracy

How would you describe your nature or disposition? If youíre like most, itís difficult to explain. Your disposition is one part of the complex entity we call character. Here, speaker and top-selling author Brian Tracy helps explain the ambiguity of character and gives you ways to cultivate a respectable one.

Try these seven steps to help develop your personal character:

1. Decide your high-level values. What is character? Your character is the degree to which you live your life consistent with high, life-enhancing values. A person who lacks character is one who compromises on higher-level values, such as honesty, integrity, etc., in favor of lower-order expedience. Your adherence to what you believe to be right and true is the real measure of the person you have become to this moment.

2. Define what ìexcellence? means to you. Understand exactly what your definition of excellence is. Hereís an example of one definition: ìI set the highest standards for myself in everything I do. I do my very best in every situation and under all circumstances. I constantly strive to be better in my work and as a person in my relationships. I recognize that excellence is a lifelong journey, and I work every day to become better and better in everything I do.?

3. Organize your actions. Once you understand your high-level values, develop a clear organizing principle for your actions. Set a standard by which you can evaluate your behavior and create a framework within which you can make decisions. If have a measuring rod against which you can compare yourself in everything you do, you can grade your activities, such as family, work, friendships, etc., in terms of ìmore? or ìless.? Have a clear target to aim at and organize your actions around.

4. Decide what you want for your family. If family is a high-level value for you, then decide exactly what that looks like. ìThe needs of my family take precedence over all other concerns. Whenever I have to choose between the happiness, health and well-being of a family member and any other interest, my family will always come first.?

5. Keep focused. From that moment onward, it becomes easier for you to choose. If family is one of your values, then your family comes first. Until you have fully satisfied the needs of your family, no other time requirement will sidetrack you into a lower-value activity.

6. Shape your own character. The wonderful thing about values clarification is that it enables you to take charge of developing and shaping your own character. When your values and goals, your inner life and your outer life, are in complete alignment, you feel good about yourself. You enjoy high self-esteem. Your self-confidence soars. When you achieve complete congruence between your values and your goals, like a hand in a glove, you feel strong, happy, healthy and fully integrated as a person. You develop a kind of courage that makes you completely unafraid to make decisions and take action. Your whole life improves when you begin living your life by the values that you most admire.

7. Take action. Create a clear written description of your values and what they mean to you. From that point on, resolve to live consistent with your own definition. Second, discipline yourself to live in complete alignment with the values, virtues and qualities that are most important to you. This is the key to character.

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Bookmark - Triggers Sparking positive change and making it last
Author: Marshall Goldsmith
Price : Rs. 271.00

In business, the right behaviours matter. But getting it right is tricky. Even when we acknowledge the need to change what we do and how we do it, life has a habit of getting in the way, upsetting even the best-laid plans. And just how do we manage those situations that can provoke even the most rational among us into behaving in ways we would rather forget?

Triggers confronts head-on the challenges of behaviour and change, looking at the external factors (or 'triggers') - both negative and positive - that affect our behaviours, our awareness of when we need to change, our willingness (or otherwise) to do so and our ability to see the change through.

Drawing on his unparalleled experience as an international executive educator and coach, Marshall Goldsmith invites us to understand how our own beliefs and the environments in which we operate can trigger negative behaviours, or a resistance to the need to change. But he also offers up some simple, practical advice to help us navigate the negative and make the most of the triggers that will help us to sustain positive change

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Inspirational Words

"Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form. In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realisation of oneness. This is love." - Eckhart Tolle

"Don't find the time to exercise, make the time to exercise." - Unknown

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." - Jim Ryun

"If it doesnít challenge you, it doesnít change you." - Fred DeVito

"The dharma that is taught and the dharma that is experienced are descriptions of how to live, how to use your life to wake you up rather than put you to sleep." - Pema Ch?dr?n

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." - Jim Rohn

"Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king." - Jonathan Swift

"A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." - Buddha

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Spiritual Centre - Universal System

"Sahaj Marg is a universal system precisely because here we do not recognize any differences of any nature which set apart human beings."

(C) Shri. P. Rajagopalachari - President, Shri Ram Chandra Mission - https://www.sahajmarg.org

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Story Time - Blind Love

The hero, Anirudhan was watching a concert. The beautiful girl who sang with a sweet voice caught his special attention. She was singing in the most melodious voice he had ever heard. She wore a beautiful white dress and stylish dark glasses which intensified her natural beauty. In the lovely and well-lit stage, the graceful girl appeared to him as a radiant angel descended from heaven. He watched her exquisite performance and enchanting charm as if in a dream. He contacted the Orchestra and learned that her name was Nisha. He talked to her directly over the phone. In an excited tone, he told her how much he adored her graceful face, attractive attire, lovely smile, pleasing performance and divine voice. He declared that he was madly in love with her and could not live without her and requested her to agree to marry him. He said he would come to meet her in person the next day.

The girl was amazed, shocked and confused on hearing his words. She replied calmly, ìSee, I am very poor and moreover?? He did not permit her to complete the sentence. He told her that he knew everything about her and that his decision to marry her was firm and final. The girl discussed the proposal with her friends and relatives and they encouraged her to proceed with the proposal as he had told her that he knew everything about her. She eagerly awaited his arrival.

Carrying a pair of the most expensive dark glasses to present to her as his gift, he went to her residence, dressed like a prince. He met her and presented the gift to her with eloquent words of ardent admiration. She opened the packet and decided to wear the new pair of glasses before him. She removed her own glasses and the young man was stunned and shocked to see that the girl had no eyes at all! There were only two small depressions in their place on her face, suggesting complete blindness. His attraction, appreciation and admiration for her alluring and appealing appearance disappeared in seconds. He rushed out of the room and vanished without a word leaving the girl in a perplexed state.

The Holy Bible teaches about true love, ìLove is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope and patience never fail? {1 Corinthians 13: 4-7}.

The young manís love was not true or sincere. He displayed several defects in his personality, character and behaviour. He made an important decision in his life without forethought and analysis. He gave a promise to a poor girl which he could not keep. His love was only an immature infatuation to the physical glamour of the gorgeous girl. Impulsive decisions may lead to disaster.  Seeking Godís will by fervent prayer leads to correct decisions. If we are willing to follow the will of God, He will make His will clear to us. William Barclay taught, ìThere is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind and beauty to life; it is to accept and do the will of God.?

ìThe Lord says?I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for? {Jeremiah 29: 11}

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Time to Smile - Life is Like That

Genealogist...

Visiting a genealogist, a man asked how much it would cost to have his family tree traced. "It could cost thousands of dollars," said the woman.

"I see. Well, isn't there an easier way? A less expensive way?" "Sure," she replied. "Run for president."

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