Diligence
All journeys worth making require clarity of purpose, commitment and diligence. As you consider your life, can you think of areas where you are diligent and others where you give up? What do you think makes the difference?
Tag: integrity
Superficiality
If there was a sliding scale between being a bodger or a perfectionist, where would you be? The bodger just gets on with a job without too much planning and preparation. By contrast, the perfectionist can be prone to procrastinate due to the need to think about every aspect of the job. Most of us are […]
surrendering MASKS
Go back to the 15th Century and you will find that this was when Masquerade Balls began, people wearing masks at public events. It gave people the opportunity to pretend to be someone else, to behave and speak differently, even opening up the way for crime and lewdness. Many films feature heroes and villains in masks such as The Mask of Zorro, Darth Vader, Phantom of the Opera and Batman. Whilst it may seem ‘fun’, it is essentially deceitful. Double lives have been lived by spies, bigamists and those using social media to groom the vulnerable. To what extent would you agree that we all have lived behind masks at one time or another?
- ‘My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring’ – Prince William
CHARACTER
If ‘character’ is who you are and what you do when no one is looking, then D L Moody is right: ‘Character is what you are in the dark’. What is ‘character’? What is good or bad? What is your character? Who is interested anyway?
Supposing you were asked to give a full character reference for someone, what would you include? What if you had to give a genuine character reference for yourself? Here’s a dictionary definition of ‘character’: ‘the total quality of a person’s behaviour, as revealed in his or her habits of thought and expression, actions and personal philosophy of life’.