Fired for Gossip in New Hampshire
If you believe your company or organization exhibits character, stop and think about this. Recent news accounts tell of four women who were fired for gossiping in a city government office. They lost their jobs because they chose to gossip about the boss and his decision to hire a new
Character Education Attacks Bullying – Self-Control
Character education attacks bullying – and character educators know that they can make an enormous difference by attacking bullying with character. They don’t tell the students that. They simply teach character with every ounce of strength they have, and let the character building effort attack bullying. Character education attacks bullying
Whose Slave Am I?
I am a slave. I’ll explain in a minute, but first I hope you will agree that the life of a slave is not necessarily bad. There have been slaves in our world for millennia. Many of them, when offered freedom, chose to remain slaves because their lives were wonderful.
YOU Be the Judge
As we focus on the character trait we call self-control, let me challenge you to be the judge in the following real-life cases. Simply determine whether the individuals described are or are not exercising self-control. Then check your answers with those given on page 4. 1. The driver of a
Social-Control or Self-Control
It’s interesting to consider how today’s society thinks when it comes to character. We are frequently amazed at the way people rearrange their “attic furniture” to avoid stumbling over high moral values. They don’t dust the furniture. They don’t repair it. They simply move it out of the way. Look
More Power!
How much power do you want? Would you like to have power over everyone in your family – or more power? How about having power over everyone on your street – or do you need more power? What if you were able to exercise power over everyone in your nation?
You Can’t Run The Country If….
An American President learns self-control. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson, 6’3” tall and overweight at 210 pounds, stood before his wife and listened as she said bluntly, “Lyndon, you can’t run the country if you can’t run yourself.” The President took her words to heart, exercised self-control over his taste
Hang onto the Strings!
Be sure that “self” dances to the music of restraint. Our children received a gift once of two very large marionettes. They were complex marionettes, with a number of strings controlling each limb, shoulders, and head. Even the governing handle had more than the minimal two crossed bars. The gift
Tomato Juice for J.C. Penney
J. C. Penney, believing that alcohol consumption was not right for him, attended a social function at which cocktails were served. Mr. Penney took only a glass of ginger ale, but someone later reported that he drank a cocktail. So eager was Mr. Penney to maintain his reputation, and so
Control of the Tongue
“…if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, we direct their entire body as well. … the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, are still directed by a very small rudder, wherever the inclination of the
