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From: "Mark's Motivation Mail" <motivation@chattertonworld.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:23:00 +0800
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient>
Subject: Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture by Jim Rohn
Could creating your character be likened to an artist creating a sculpture? In my opinion, I believe that character is not
something that just happens by itself, any more than a chisel can create a work of art without the hand of an artist guiding
it. In both instances, a conscious decision for a specific outcome has been made. A conscious process is at work.
Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment,
into who you want to be. If that decision-making process is not present, you will still be somebody. You will still be
alive, but may have a personality rather than a character.
Character is not something you were born with and can't change like your fingerprint. In fact, because you weren't born with
it, it is something that you must take responsibility for creating. I don't believe that adversity by itself builds
character and I certainly don't think that success erodes it. Character is built by how you respond to what happens in your
life. Whether it's winning every game or losing every game. Getting rich or dealing with hard times. You build character
out of certain qualities that you must create and diligently nurture within yourself. Just like you would plant and water
a seed or gather wood and build a campfire. You've got to look for those things in your heart and in your gut. You've
got to chisel away in order to find them. Just like chiseling away the rock in order to create the sculpture that has
previously existed only in your imagination.
But do you want to know the really amazing thing about character? If you are sincerely committed to making yourself
into the person you want to be, you'll not only create those qualities, but you'll continually strengthen them. And you
will recreate them in abundance even as you are drawing on them every day of your life. Just like the burning bush in
the biblical book of Exodus, the bush burned but the flames did not consume it. Character sustains itself and nurtures
itself even as it is being put to work, tested, and challenged. And once character is formed, it will serve as a
solid, lasting foundation upon which to build the life you desire.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
something that just happens by itself, any more than a chisel can create a work of art without the hand of an artist guiding
it. In both instances, a conscious decision for a specific outcome has been made. A conscious process is at work.
Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment,
into who you want to be. If that decision-making process is not present, you will still be somebody. You will still be
alive, but may have a personality rather than a character.
Character is not something you were born with and can't change like your fingerprint. In fact, because you weren't born with
it, it is something that you must take responsibility for creating. I don't believe that adversity by itself builds
character and I certainly don't think that success erodes it. Character is built by how you respond to what happens in your
life. Whether it's winning every game or losing every game. Getting rich or dealing with hard times. You build character
out of certain qualities that you must create and diligently nurture within yourself. Just like you would plant and water
a seed or gather wood and build a campfire. You've got to look for those things in your heart and in your gut. You've
got to chisel away in order to find them. Just like chiseling away the rock in order to create the sculpture that has
previously existed only in your imagination.
But do you want to know the really amazing thing about character? If you are sincerely committed to making yourself
into the person you want to be, you'll not only create those qualities, but you'll continually strengthen them. And you
will recreate them in abundance even as you are drawing on them every day of your life. Just like the burning bush in
the biblical book of Exodus, the bush burned but the flames did not consume it. Character sustains itself and nurtures
itself even as it is being put to work, tested, and challenged. And once character is formed, it will serve as a
solid, lasting foundation upon which to build the life you desire.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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