Character is what you do, when no one is looking.
It’s why you do things, irrespective of reward.
I don’t want my life driven by asking “What will I get out of it?” but by answering “How will I contribute to others through this?”
Character is what gets you out of bed in the morning at a decent hour, so you get the exercise that you really don’t want to do, but must.
It’s what keeps you on schedule to you eat the breakfast and take the vitamins that your body needs to be healthy and productive throughout the day.
Character is what makes it possible for you to do all the things in the course of the day that need to be done, even though you don’t really want to do them
It’s what teaches you your place in the world, in society, in the grand scheme of things… and reminds you that your own personal comfort and convenience must sometimes often take a back seat to the Greater Good.
Rewards are great. They’re the fodder of some great marketing campaigns, and they do motivate people.
But Character… now, that’s something that lasts, even when there are no obvious rewards in sight.
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Author: brokenbrilliant
I am a long-term multiple (mild) Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI or TBI) survivor who experienced assaults, falls, car accidents, sports-related injuries in the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. My last mild TBI was in 2004, but it was definitely the worst of the lot.
I never received medical treatment for my injuries, some of which were sports injuries (and you have to get back in the game!), but I have been living very successfully with cognitive/behavioral (social, emotional, functional) symptoms and complications since I was a young kid. I’ve done it so well, in fact, that virtually nobody knows that I sustained those injuries… and the folks who do know, haven’t fully realized just how it’s impacted my life.
It has impacted my life, however. In serious and debilitating ways. I’m coming out from behind the shields I’ve put up, in hopes of successfully addressing my own (invisible) challenges and helping others to see that sustaining a TBI is not the end of the world, and they can, in fact, live happy, fulfilled, productive lives in spite of it all.
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Character is cultivated within the small moments.
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