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Abundance – 2011 “Best of the Best”

201130 Dec
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As you look back on your experiences in 2011, I encourage you to reflect on how and where you better applied the three values of the Character Triangle: Accountability, Respect, and Abundance. How much have you consciously practiced? Have you recognize how it has helped?

Key Point: The following three blogs on ABUNDANCE are my candidates for “best of the best in 2011,” based on reader interest and feedback regarding the degree they stimulated thought and action. I hope you enjoy reading them again or if you missed any that you find them meaningful. Thanks for being part of the Character Triangle “Tribe.” I hope you will join me again in 2012 for a new and invigorating set of ideas and suggestions as part of the continuous journey of Character Triangle development.

Your Last 50 cents… What Would You Do?

Goddess of Wisdom and Goddess of Wealth

Two Cheetahs Could Like You Today …Really!

Character Move:

Read one or more of the blogs again.
Think about what action you took or will take as a result.
Give me your feedback as to which of the three was your 2011 favorite.
Share them with anyone who might value the message.

Best in the Triangle,

Lorne

Looking Back at Abundance in 2010

20113 Jan
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Today I want to highlight four of my top blogs focusing on the ABUNDANCE element of the Character Triangle in 2010. Many readers have told me these are having an impact. Comment on this blog and let me know which of these Top 4 would get your vote as the ABUNDANCE blog of 2010. (And, if you haven’t already voted for your favorite Accountability and Respect blogs please do so by commenting each of the last two blogs.)

Show That We Care!

Free Yourself from “Prison” Now!

Why Mesh Leaders Create a Better Workplace

$5 a Day

Thank you for giving your most precious commodity of time in helping develop the Character Triangle.

Wishing you a wonderful 2011 in the Triangle,

Lorne

Give Up Your Mitts

201017 May
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Hi Characters, I like to tell a story of my dad dying in the palliative care unit. My mom gets a call from a friend of my dad who is in her late 80′s. She insists on visiting my dad in the hospital to say goodbye before he dies. So she talks her nurse into driving some 60 miles in the dead of a Western Canadian Winter so she can get to his bedside. Why?

Apparently some 80 plus years ago my dad and his neighbor friend Alice, the lovely gal referred to above, had to walk three miles to and from school. One miserable blizzard, with frigid temperatures below -30 degrees, found my dad and Alice struggling to walk home. Alice said her hands were so cold she was weeping in pain. Her mitts got wet sitting on the classroom radiator and froze along with her hands on the trek home. My dad, 7-years-old at the time, gave Alice his mitts to wear instead. She never forgot that generosity.

Be abundant. Give up your mitts. You may get a hug 80 years later. Your generosity matters.

with Character,

Lorne

Character Triangle

Our character is exclusively ours. We define it by how we think and what we do. I believe that acting with Character is driven by what I call the Character Triangle.

What, exactly, is the Character Triangle (CT)?

The CT describes and emphasizes three distinct but interdependent values:

Be Accountable: first person action to make things better, avoiding blame.
Be Respectful: being present, listening, looking again, focusing on the process.
Be Abundant: generous in spirit, moving forward, minimizing the lack of.