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Discipline to Success: The Spiritual Attribute

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Building Your Spiritual Skills

Maintaining Diligence

Diligence is characterized by a persistent care and application. Sedulous people show perseverance, care, caution and earnest effort to accomplish what is needed. They are attentive to required details.

An example of diligence is the persistent application of the concepts discussed in this BLOG. If you desire to become physically, educationally, socially and spiritually stronger, you will then make a concerted effort to accomplish and achieve the tasks for each development. Diligence means that you do the job right.

Diligence also means quality performance. A job not done well is a job not done. This applies when pursuing your goals and responsibilities. You are wasting your time if you fail to produce quality work.

You can become more diligent by working on the following steps:

• set personal goals and objectives.
• accomplish daily tasks by doing it right.
• perform quality work.
• work and achieve tasks within certain time limits.
• complete tasks and assignments on time.
• sign your name “mentally” to the work performed.

So increase “diligence” by doing your work on time and in quality.

Next week, we will discuss the spiritual trait “moral ethics”.

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Discipline to Success: The Spiritual Attribute

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Building Your Spiritual Skills

How to Build Humility

Balancing between the forces of self-confidence and humility is a lifelong process. Self-confidence is the mental energy to achieve the things you want. Humility is a companion force that keeps you from destroying the successes you have made.

Let’s delve into suggestions on how to build humility:

Charity:
Increase your time to help others. Become more considerate of people regard less of their race, gender, religion and ethic background.

Recognize Others:
Make it a habit to frequently thank your parents, teachers, peers and bosses for the help and contributions they directly or indirectly made in your behalf. Recognize the achievements of others.

Befriend the “Inferior”:
If you feel superior, befriend a person whom you consider as inferior. For example, if you are rich and proud, befriend the poor. If you are strong and physically in-shape, befriend the weak. If you are handsome and good looking, befriend the ugly.

I like the story relayed in the movie, “Ghandi.” During a scene of violence among Hindus and Muslems, Ghandi goes to Calcutta to fast for the healing of the nation. After fasting for many days, a Hindu man approaches Ghandi to confess his sins. He had killed a Muslem family in retaliation for the death of his little boy.

The man believes that his actions will send his condemned soul to hell. Ghandi replies to the man that there is a way out of hell. He instructs him to go into the streets and look for a little boy like his own who has lost his family because of the violence. The Hindu man was to raise the boy as his own. But, the man was to raise the boy as a Muslem.

Note the richness in this story. A humble person befriends all persons no matter what their religion or culture or economic status. You likewise need to befriend others who are not part of your social mainstream.

Become Teachable:
Play the role of a student when around others. Allow other people the opportunity to express their opinions. Let others teach and help you even if you don’t need their help. Take advice from others and help them feel that their suggestions contributed to your success and growth.

Become Ugly:
Boastful people think that they are beautiful. They will spend their time and money to look attractive and prestigious. They will wear fancy clothes and costly jewelry and spend hours in front of the mirror making themselves gorgeous.

Take a day or two each week and become “ugly.” Don’t wear costly apparel or jewelry. Try not to talk about yourself and your accomplishments. Act and appear as though there was nobody to impress.

Many will argue that “humility” is a sign of weakness, especially when you consider the suggestive traits mentioned above. But consider this, is success achieved when one cheats, defames, and personally destroys another person? Or is success achieved when one displines themselves to achieve greatness while helping others?

Next week, we will discuss the spiritual trait “diligence”.

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Discipline to Success: The Spiritual Attribute

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Building Your Spiritual Skills

You must be feeling fantastic by now. You are strengthening four of the five attributes of your character and increasing self-discipline. We now reach the highest level of character well-roundedness. The spiritual attribute completes the circle that will support and accomplish your goals.

What is the spiritual attribute? The best answer to this question comes by reading the four Gospels in the New Testament section of the Holy Bible. It makes no difference whether you believe in the Divinity of Jesus Christ or not. One argument is certain: The man Jesus Christ was a great teacher of moral ethics and spiritual qualities. This viewpoint is held by most Christians, Jews, Moslems, religious zealots and agnostics.

The spiritual attribute seeks a higher plane of human development. You can be an atheist and still possess spiritual qualities that are goodly. A spiritually developed person chooses not worldly appetites, but seeks those qualities that elevate mental well-being.

You can find many theological and philosophical theories on spiritual development. We learn and apply these theories through our religious and philosophical studies. But no matter what your belief or philosophy, you can strengthen your spiritual attribute by developing the following spiritual qualities:

faith virture patience charity humility diligence moral ethics

Next week: we will start our discussion on each of these spiritural attributes.

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