It's Character That Wakes You Up ~ If You Want To See A Man's True Character Watch Him Under Pressure

Lessons From A High School Dropout

Character is what wakes you up in the morning, yet it’s not a signature like our fingerprint.

It’s not passed down through our DNA or our ancestry.

Character is a unique design created by our daily habits and actions.

It defines us in a big way.

Charisma is often mistaken to be similar by definition as character, but this not even close to being true.

Today’s episode on Lessons From A High School Dropout I will share how Character not only gets you up in the morning, but how character sets you apart from others in a unique way and the power of character can have a lasting impact to build on how we are perceived in a positive or negative fashion. It’s like you and I are ice sculpture’s on display and you can change the character very easily as you hold the chisel and your vision holds the design!

Welcome to Lessons From a High School Dropout. My name is Troy Thomas Joseph Fitch.

We thank you for tuning into our lesson today. The inner resource we build for handling the more difficult times of our daily living are what deliver us to a higher level of consciousness or the opposite being a lower level of consciousness.

I think the best example I can share most often is a personal experience where wisdom hit me over a phone call. During my nine years as a commercial offset printing sales professional I found myself sharing a very heated conversation with my production manager for some large scale printing projects with my father. As I was sharing in my very charismatic way I began to vent my anger and frustration.

After a pause likely due to needing to breath my father gently said this to me.

“Son if you want to see a man’s true character watch him under pressure.”

My charismatic way was silenced and my eyes began to look within and digest what my father was saying. I didn’t feel that I liked what he said, but deep within the character of my core knew full well he was right.

Another little story I would like to share is the conversation on a park bench outside a local library back in 2003. I was once in a conversation with a homeless man on a bench outside a library where he spent countless hours each day reading.

This homeless man was about the age of 48 and had been homeless since he was 24. At the time I was 36 years of age and really engaged in my very own personal development in my life and creating change in many ways for my future.

David was his name and this is what he said and I wrote it down. He said, “I may not always know the right thing to do but I always know the wrong thing to do.” Character is what’s left after charisma is gone.

You see character is what wakes you up in the morning, but it can also wake you up while we walk through life. It’s up to us to make a choice to recognize when we need to look within under difficult challenges.

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