How To Have Character Instead Of Being One!
Do you have character? Or are you just one instead?
Character is something that comes about from “clean thinking”. And the surest way to BECOME a character instead of having character is to fall in to the trap of “Stinking thinking”.
Now it’s true that we all screw up sometimes.
Hopefully as we gain experience we learn to make more and more good decisions and to have better quality thinking.
But seeing as we’re all human, sometimes when you get a group of humans together – even if it’s something as “simple” as a couple, if you can call that “simple,” people get bent out of shape over “dumb stuff”.
Maybe it was the other person’s fault, maybe it wasn’t.
But think long-term and what is your COMMON goal, your COMMON values and ideals?
Is it worth working towards together?
If you’re on separate paths, kool! Wish them well and part ways.
But sometimes it’s just something ridiculous.
A misunderstanding.
I helped my mom with something awhile back, and I did a real good job of helping her.
And one of my friends also helped her out with the project – someone who is actually there in closer proximity (I’m about 1,000 miles away in a different part of the country).
My mom has selective memory and thinks the other person did all the work, but somehow “forgot” the long phone calls and the covert installation of skills I did.
She probably doesn’t know how to calibrate what I did, anyway.
Which means I did a real good job of covertly doing what I did.
If she were a client, though, I would have goofed because she wouldn’t have any reference points for what I did to help her. So I learned something valuable there.
And at first, I was PISSED when she gave credit to the other person.
Because I spent a lot of time on the phone, doing some real good covert hypnosis.
Like I said, my mom has no calibration for what I did, nor for the anchors I set, nor for the convincer strategies and meta programs I used, nor for the covert use of timelines and installation of resources.
So I got PO’d because I didn’t get credit for what I did.
So I had to remember what MY values were and why I did what I did.
Then I also remembered MY criteria for how I know I did a good job.
And all of a sudden, that AWARENESS of my criteria brought a smile to my face, because I did such a good job that she doesn’t even know what I did.
Those of you who do hypnosis, energy work, or personal coaching for a living can relate with me.
But those of you who don’t can certainly relate to times when a minor misunderstanding escalated.
Maybe you thought you weren’t appreciated or were being ignored. Or just flat out thought the other person done you wrong.
Although I’ve never been there, I’ve been told that at the US Military Academy at West Point there’s a small plaque at the back of a room that is filled with tributes to American military leaders and heros.
Someone who was incredibly important to General George Washington early in the American Revolution.
In fact, we here in the US would all have a British flag flying over our heads if it weren’t for that general who was so important early on in the Revolutionary War.
Now his great service to his country is almost completely forgottn, overshaddowed by others – in some cases others who had less ability and less skill than he.
His name is associated with pond scum and traitors.
His name?
Benedict Arnold.
That’s right.
THAT Benedict Arnold.
The traitor.
The “character” of the American Revolution.
Because he didn’t have CHARACTER – he was a character instead.
He got overlooked for promotion.
He got “done wrong” and passed by when others with less skill got promoted.
Part of it was probably just bad marketing on his part. Being a military leader also depends on knowing how to use the propaganda machine to your favor. Rommel did it. Mac Arthur did it. So did Norman Schwartzkopf.
Some people are skilled and know how to promote themselves.
Others just know how to work the propaganda machine and the system in their favor.
I worked with some people who got certificates about what a great job they did, and those of us who worked with them just shook our heads in amazement.
But also meta programs come in to play here.
And convincer strategies.
And so something small grows and grows until one person in the relationship is so fed up that they turn traitor and sabotage the relationship.
Maybe you’ve done it before? I sure have. Hopefully we learn from it and grow so we make better choices next time.
Of course when it happens it’s always “the other person’s fault.”
But does it get you where you want to go??? That’s the important thing.
Poor old Benedict Arnold never really got what he wanted.
He just screwed himself more than he already was.
Oftentimes we get disappointed or let down when the other person doesn’t live up to OUR expectations of what we think they should do or who they should be.
But a little bit of clean thinking can go a long ways in preventing much of the emotional distress people put their own selves through.
More on this in the “Elite Members Only” training area.
http://www.mindcontrolresources.com/MembersOnly.html
Sincerely,
Jim Knippenberg