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I am Mike Davison and I am the founder of PartnersInPurpose.com. My company’s mission is to assist individuals and organizations to connect with their purpose and maximize their resources to optimize success. I am a Clinical Psychologist, organizational consultant and peak performance coach. I believe that everyone has a purpose in life. It is when people are fully connected with their purpose and are actively living it with a spirit of service and contribution that they experience the greatest sense of fulfillment. I live in the Chicagoland area with my wife of 16 years and our three amazing children.

Friday, August 03, 2007

Got Character? It Does a Body Good!

....... Pass it on!


There is one thing that people of great historical significance have in common:

Commitment to Cultivating their Character.

Character is the quality that speaks behind your words.

Personality can attract you, but only character inspires greatness.

Are you living the character you profess to want?

Or is it rhetoric that sounds good to the ear, but slips away when the spotlight is out
and the crowds are gone.

Here's Your Destiny Doctor Prescription:

Create an atmosphere of Inner Peace

Think of the qualities you admire in other people and know that
the qualities you admire in others are the hidden aspects of you that
are waiting to come out.

Everyday start to cultivate that quality in your own unique way.

Take a page out of Benjamin Franklin's book and make a plan. Let his list of
virtues be inspiration for you.

Benjamin Franklin "Character in Action"

Virtues


Franklin sought to cultivate his character by a plan of thirteen virtues, which he developed at age 20 (in 1726) and continued to practice in some form for the rest of his life. His autobiography lists his thirteen virtues as:

  1. "TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation."
  2. "SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation."
  3. "ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time."
  4. "RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."
  5. "FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing."
  6. "INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions."
  7. "SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly."
  8. "JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty."
  9. "MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve."
  10. "CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation."
  11. "TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable."
  12. "CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation."
  13. "HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates."
Your Destiny Doctor,
Dr. Mike Davison

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