Secret #5: Character - aCe

C is for Conversation

Those you associate with, to a large extent, determine who you “converse” with and sometimes you really don’t have a choice e.g. your work colleagues, which brings us to conversation…

Let's see what those who lived before us had to say about character and conversation:

The character of a man is known from his conversations. Menander (342 BC - 292 BC)

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Have you ever been in a situation where people "hold their tongues" around you - or as you so "sociable" that your acquaintances and colleagues feel no restraint in what they say around you?

On the other hand, are you one who can be described as "talking ten to the dozen"? Is your voice the only heard in a conversation? Must you talk each and everytime? Remember our postings on Communication (in March 2010)? I won't repeat all we said there here but it goes without saying that the things that come out of your mouth are a reflection of who you really are...to paraphrase Luke 6:45b - whateever is in your heart "spills" out through your mouth.

What you say shows who you are, what/who you listen to also shows who you are...watch your conversations and your character is in check.

God bless