Developing your Character

If you died tomorrow will you be remembered as someone who portrayed excellent Character? Someone who was a shining light in everyones lives? That everywhere you went and everyone you came into contact with you left a profit in peoples lives. You would be known as a person of love, integrity, kindness, joy, humble, non judgemental, accepting and would put a smile on peoples face even if they just heard your name :-)

If you would answer no to these questions then maybe it's time to look at your character and the type of person you are becoming and if this is who you want to be remembered for.


The Bible says in Galations 5:33-23
"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control"

When we are living from the fruit of the spirit our character will naturally be strengthened. Because your character can be determined by the way you treat people who have nothing to offer you.

ie: How do you treat the checkout person at the supermarket? The toilet cleaners? The fast food operators?

Do you treat them the same as you would treat the people in your life that only offer you something you want? or do you not really think twice about them and more concerned about yourself and own needs?

What if you treated everyone that you came into contact with as if they were your best friend? Do you think that might change things? What does this mean? Well you could become the type of person who lights up the room when you walk in, not just when you leave! How do I do this? well it doesn't have to be hard, all you have to do is genuienly care about people by taking massive interest in them!!! not yourself but them! Too often we are soo much in our own heads that we constantly have "I" on our minds, thats we dont even think about taking time out to really notice others because we are too wrapped up in ourselves.

To change this habit next time your at ie: the grocery store make it a goal to find out about the checkout girl/guy and become genuinly interested in them like they were your friend already. All you have to do is acknowledge them, smile, and ask great questions and open ended questions are the best ie: So tell me about you? or whats been the highlight of your week? this forces them out of just the yes or no answer. You may even find commonality with them, this is excellent way of building rapport and building relationships fast as people are attracted to people who are like them or share similar interests. The law of the universe "Like attracts like"
Another way you can be rememebered is by giving them a compliment - but be genuine about it of course :-) You will soon notice people loooovvve talking about themselves, and when you become a master listener people will just begin opening up to you more and more because they will sense you care. Before you know it you will have made a friend for life, and every time you go back into the grocery store they will remember you. 

an example of a great role model who showed excellent character and humility was Jesus. When Jesus walked the earth  -  He was the shining light in the lives of everyone he came into contact with.
Just his presence would bring healing to people without saying a word! Because who he was on the inside was a reflected on the outside of him.
Jesus had the fruit of the spirit inside him, he was love, he was peace & joy, he was patient, he was humble, he has meekness, faithfulness, and self control"
& this was shown by everyone he came into contact with. Everyone he met he showed love, he was accepting, and never judged, he took a gunuine interest in people, and through this he brought healing into peoples lives, gave them hope, faith, & brought them out of the darkness and into the light.

I think more of us need to be a similar example of Jesus - by developing our character but also humility. What does humility mean? "To not think less of ourselves but to think of ourselves less"

Why dont we talk less and listen more, and genuinly care, understand and accept everyone as they are, and for who they are. To become majorly interested in other people we come into contact with - and not just those who can offer us something.

If you work more on yourself, & your character than you do on your career, life etc, you will be a greater success! because it all starts with you and what's inside - because what is on the inside will naturally flow on the outside.

Become a person who adds massive value to others! To be remembered everywhere you go because you are the "Shining light" in peoples lives! There are soo many people in this world, who are depressed, unhappy, lonely, feel worthless, lack confidence, feeling like no one cares, and you could be the only light that they see that day that makes the difference!

There's a quote I like it's "Walk into darkness to relight the candle that has burnt out in someone Else's world... then, you will learn the true meaning of life."

I am not saying that everyone you meet is going through a dark times in their life, that is not always the case, but you just never know the power of how one person can change the lives of soo many others by just being the shining light wherever you go.

"Be the change you wish to see in the world"

Peace & love


Julia Huzziff :-)xo