YOU CAN DEVELOP YOUR OWN CHARACTER

Benjamin Franklin, America's first millionaire, a founding father, and a remarkable statesman, diplomat, and inventor started as a penniless boy in Philadelphia apprenticed to a small printing company. He was outspoken and argumentative and often made enemies who then contrived to hurt his chances and hold him back.

At a certain point in his young life, as Benjamin Franklin reveals in his autobiography, he realized that his personality was in great danger of hurting his chances for long-term success in early American society. He therefore decided to develop within himself a series of virtues, such as sincerity, humility, temperance, discipline, and honesty, that he felt he would have to possess if he wanted to achieve his full potential.

For many years, week after week, Franklin practiced visualization. He thought of a characteristic or quality that he wanted to embody. He visualized and imagined himself as possessing that quality. In every interaction with other people, he referred to this "inner mirror" to see how he should behave and then carried himself in a manner consistent with that ideal inner picture. Over time, his mental images became so deeply impressed on his subconscious mind that he finally developed the character and mannerisms of the kind of person he desired.

In essence, you can control the molding and shaping of your own personality and character by the mental images that you dwell upon hour by hour and minute by minute. By changing your mental images, you change the way you think, feel, and act.

You can change the way you treat other people and the way they respond to you. You can change your performance and your results. You can actually remake yourself in the image of the very best person you can imagine yourself becoming. This is all part of constructive use of visualization; seeing yourself the way God sees you.

Today, I urge you to have the mind of Christ as you face the dawn of a new and glorious day. Things may not work out the way you've planned but with God even the bad things of life can be a recipe for unprecedented breakthrough. Remember, it doesn't matter what people do to you. All that matters is how you react...

See You At The Top In 2016. #MoreGrace!