How to Improve Your Personality | Me Plus You

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 5 July 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Listen to episode 73 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Improve Your Personality (Me Plus You). Edited and adapted from Laugh and Live by Douglas Fairbanks. Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: Nothing brings a greater self-reward than a service done in an hour of need, or a favor granted during a day's grind. The generous person who climbs to the top of the ladder helps many others on their way. The more we do for someone else, the more we do for ourselves. The stronger we become—the greater our influence in our communities. Doing things for others may not bring in bankable dividends but it does bring in happiness. Such actions scorn a monetary reward. We have only to try this out to learn the truth for ourselves. A good place to begin is at home--then, the office, or wherever life leads us. In doing these things we will laugh as we go along—we will laugh and get the most out of living. Our little day-by-day kindnesses when added together constitute, in time, a huge asset on the right side of our ledger of life. We should start the day with something that helps another person get through THEIR day ... even if it isn't anything more than a smile and a wave of the hand. They will remember us for it.... Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the inspirational living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen,
0:17.0	makers of inspirational fashion and gift ideas.
0:23.4	Visit them online at book of zen.com.
0:27.7	Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from Laugh and Live by Douglas Fairbanks, published in 1917. A healthy and robust personality is the fulfillment of self-development, physically, mentally, and spiritually.
0:51.4	But all robust personalities are not healthy, for it often shows in the faces of those who are selfish at heart.
1:00.0	Therefore all personality is not for the good of the world. It is only of the healthy and generous kind that we speak.
1:09.0	And to those who possess it, the goal is divine.
1:15.0	Personality can never be perfected without living a life of preparedness,
1:20.3	backed up by our own earnest and honest convictions.
1:25.5	Personality is made up of many qualities and differs among people in a variety of ways.
1:33.3	Perfect personality requires constant care in its development and constant guard for its safety.
1:41.3	It cannot be purchased in the open market.
1:51.4	It must be built upon piece by piece, and everything we are becomes a part of it.
1:58.2	Personality would indeed be imperfect if it did not give us full poise.
2:05.6	If we neglect our physical poise, we pull down our mental poise, likewise our spiritual poise. That is why personality must be kept constantly protected against encroachment,
2:14.6	but this can be so fixed by purpose plan and power of will that it becomes automatically
2:22.3	safeguarded.
2:23.3	Once in possession of personality, we have only to make it part of our natural selves
2:31.3	and wear it unconsciously to the last breath of life.
2:36.5	Personality does not mean over-refinement.
2:40.6	Stirty qualities are the necessary ones.
2:44.4	Over-refinement leads to the softer life and oftentimes to degenerate ways.
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