Shape Your Character in 47 Days
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When you refine and sharpen your own personal philosophy everything around you improves to match it. I encourage you to not let the outside world affect your inside world but rather force you inside world to affect your outside world. This little twist on semantics WILL change your life for the better.
This book page is authored by a current leader with years of experience and is not speaking on anything in theory alone. These daily lessons have been tested with failure and success for the purpose of providing a smoother path for others.
Failure doesn’t develop character, it exposes it! When failure hit home with you (which it will) I want you to have a wonderful, seasoned, and shinning character exposed rather than one you are ashamed of. Forty seven days is the perfect amount of time for you to begin your ongoing journey of becoming a better you.
Cranston Holden
I encourage you to not let the outside world affect your inside world, but rather force your inside world to affect your outside world. This little twist on semantics WILL change your life for the better.
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Shape Your Character in 47 Days - Cranston Holden
I really want to take the time to thank someone who made writing this book possible. Without her support this book would have never come to fruition and currently be in your hands. I would like to take the time to tell my wife how much she means to me. She offers continuous support and love when I don’t do anything to deserve it. She always gives more than she receives and is a wonderful person from the inside out. She is the biggest advocate in the pursuit of personal growth. She is the one who convinced me that is you become a better person, you live a better life. Thank you and I love you.
Introduction
The information from this book is written to provide people from all backgrounds to content that will add value to themselves and the people they influence on a daily basis. Let’s face it, just because you have a particular title or in a certain place in your life, doesn’t mean that you’ve got good character. This book was written to help you develop your character and influence in your own life.
When you refine and sharpen your own personal philosophy everything around you improves to match it. I encourage you to not let the outside world affect your inside world but rather force you inside world to affect your outside world. This little twist on semantics WILL change your life for the better.
This book page is authored by a current leader with years of experience and is not speaking on anything in theory alone. These daily lessons have been tested with failure and success for the purpose of providing a smoother path for others.
Failure doesn’t develop character, it exposes it! When failure hit home with you (which it will) I want you to have a wonderful, seasoned, and shinning character exposed rather than one you are ashamed of. Forty seven days is the perfect amount of time for you to begin your ongoing journey of becoming a better you.
Beliefs That Govern Your Actions
Day One: What is Integrity?
I often think of integrity and who it relates to leadership and management. Integrity is the one thing that will hold a team together and keep them moving forward with success or the very thing that causes failure, unhappiness, discontent, and failure. If you don’t have integrity, you don’t have anything.
Integrity doesn’t mean you walk on some kind of moral high ground looking down on everyone else. It doesn’t mean that the person is superior or a Dudley Do Right type person.
Integrity is defined as the state of being complete and undivided. Having integrity means being whole and undamaged. When I think of integrity I think of a foundation or frame of a building. Everything in a given structure is supported by its integrity. The walls, the floor, the contents, the people inside are all supported by the integrity of the structure. If termites get inside the structure and damage the frame; the integrity is damaged and everything supported by it is at risk. If a structure has foundation problems and cracks develop in the foundation, the walls begin to separate and again the structure is again at risk.
So what are these cracks in integrity that doom so many promising leaders?
Not being consistent. A good leader says what he does and does what he says. There is a consistency in what he or she tells you and what he or she does. He doesn’t tell you to do something one way and do something himself to contradict everything he says hiding behind the title of being the boss. I want everyone to wear a blue blazer and be here every morning at 5:30 AM.
Then he himself strolls in at 9:00 AM wearing no blazer and a white tee shirt. This is not a consistent boss and is intentionally daring someone to challenge his authority and in the process destroying his integrity.
Not cracking under pressure. When the heat comes down do you stand firm or crack blaming someone else, throw up a quick lie, or turn on someone who is suppose to be a trusted ally? Nothing breaks trust faster than this. No one will follow a person that can’t be trusted. You can immediately indentify a leader who has cracks in his integrity by the people who are loyal to them. If a leader seems like a strong and wonderful person who talks a good game, but doesn’t have anyone loyal to him…..BEWARE! There’s a reason for it.
What you do when no one’s looking. When you get out of the car in the parking lot do you step over a piece of trash or do you reach down and pick it up and take it in the building? One of my biggest pet peeves and an odd indicator I personally use to judge someone’s character is if they actually wash their hand in the restroom. So many times I witness people who just run the water over their finger and grab a paper towel trying to give the impression that they are washing their hands. Someone who would cut such a simple corner will definitely cut bigger ones given the opportunity.
Everyone unfortunately gets cracks in their integrity. The difference is people with a strong foundation repair their cracks immediately. No one is perfect and mistakes will be made. When they get these hairline cracks they without delay fill it with concrete patch instead of letting it set growing larger and larger when water and other elements invade it.
Today’s Call to Action:
Think about the things others may consider a crack in your integrity and start resolving those issues by pouring concrete in your cracks. You know the thinks you are doing that aren’t right but bury them deep down and try to justify them because they are painful. Expose and repair them.
Day Two: Sensory Acuity
First thing, what is sensory acuity? The easiest way to define sensory acuity is to think about it like an old rolodex. When a subject comes up, you pull out your rolodex and walk your fingers to the subject you and looking for. The amount of information you are able to access is your sensory acuity. If you go the P
s and you have only a couple contacts, your acuity is low. If you have twenty contacts under P
your acuity is much higher.
Sensory acuity is the number of defined distinctions you can access on any given subject. I reside where it may snow one time a year. I have one word for snow. To me it’s snow. The Inuit (the indigenous people who have traditionally inhabited the northern region from eastern Siberia, across Alaska, Canada, and Greenland) however have over a dozen words for snow. They have a word that describes the type of snow you can