Has your life been spent on putting most of your efforts on
improving yourself on the inside or the outside? Is your workout routine for your health or so you can flex those
massive pectorals. Do you spend time
reading and thinking about “right actions” or just scanning the entertainment
section for the “right night club.”?
Is your business success and wealth worth more than your
integrity and concern for those you serve?
For that matter, have you found time in your life for regular unpaid
service and volunteering and “other-mindedness,” or are you mostly focused on
yourself?
These are questions only you can answer about the nature of
your character, and you may have decided that they are not important--you are
perfectly happy with who you are. I
would offer that they are very important questions to ask, and I suspect at
least at the end of your life you quite likely will agree.
Senator Dan Coats once said, “Character cannot be summoned
at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and
rationalization. The only testing
ground for the heroic is the mundane.
The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a
life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self-defining,
seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.” The senator was likely thinking in political
terms, but his statement has value for our personal lives as well. What are your habits that define your
character?
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