Building Character – Derrick Kwa

Steve Olsen gives us 6 tips for building exceptional character.

clipped from www.steve-olson.com

Become other person centric

Contribute first

Develop mental toughness

Encourage everyone around you to be the best they can be

Praise effort, progress, and success

Do the right thing even when it is unpopular

Notice how 4 of the 6 have to do with other people. The most important thing you can do with your life is to help and influence other people. Contribute to other people’s lives, encourage and inspire those around you. That’s the best thing you can do.

Doing that will help build your character as well; it will improve your own life. As Steve Pavlina tells us in his post “Quality and Contribution“:

clipped from www.stevepavlina.com

If you want to increase the quality of your life, focus on increasing your contribution. And if you want to improve your contribution, take steps to upgrade the quality of your surroundings.

My advice to you today: Focus on those around. Ask yourself: what can I do to improve my surroundings? And do it.

Make an effort to change the world around you, and you’ll find that you’ll change as well.

Sarah Deutsch July 27, 2007 at 4:53 am

Have you joined the Grasshoppers Network on Ning? It’s all about finding ways to be helpful to others, and pooling our resources to contribute to each other and to the world at large.

Definitely a great place to start building the kind of character you’re talking about – come join us! =)

About the author