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Daily Virtue: Dignity

Dignity: The state of being worthy of respect and owning a sense of pride.

Cachet, character, courtliness, culture, decorum, distinction, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, majesty, merit, morality, nobleness, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, seemliness, self-respect, solemnity, splendor, standing, stateliness, station, stature, status, sublimity, virtue, worth, worthiness, reputation, repute, respect.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. Micheal J. Fox

In what ways are you worthy of respect, in what ways are others worthy of yours? Figuring out where your source of dignity lies -- what you use to genuinely feel pride is a key source of personal power. It all starts by granting dignity to those around you.

Daily Virtue: Courage

Courage is about doing what is right even when your nerves push you to think twice -- what will you do that is "right" today?

One of The25Virtue survey participants states:

"Courage, I admire it greatly. The ability to function, to fight, to decide from right and wrong even in the thickest veils and torrents of fear."

Finding courage is in many cases about managing fear of reactions, interactions, and a crisis of personal confidence.

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Daily Virtue: Compassion

Today, work to understand a challenge someone important in your life is facing.

Take time to listen, try to put yourself in their shoes.

Do not focus upon the burden it places upon you, focus upon the burden you are lifting off of them.

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Courage is a choice?

Courage is knowing what not to fear. --Plato

Plato the positive perspective guru with an "always look on the bright side of life" quotation. In life, we can spend time figuring out what it is we fear the most, or we can spend time deciding what is going well. Seems such a simple decision, but life is complicated.

When we do recognize and live in the energy of what is not feared, courage comes more easily. When everything is going well, confidence develops with more depth.

Is it then a choice - to have courage or not? If we choose to live in the positive, and the positive leads to courage -- seems like basic math.


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Compassion

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves. --Mason Cooley

The trick is to let ourselves stop so that we can take the moment to rise above ourselves. The society we roam about in nudges us to not stop. Just walk by...just let it go. Take one day or even one afternoon and STOP. Take the time to notice where you can brandish compassion and rise above yourself.

November 2010 Survey Update

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Here is the Virtue Spread as of November 2010. There are no huge changes in the top ten, but I continue to find that all 25 are important to a significant portion of the survey group. the survey just passed the 330 mark.

Not surprisingly, the 5 least preferred (although they still appear in top 5 lists) are those that create a sense of holding back, cutting back, or minimizing excess.

Recent comments about the Survey:

• This was a thought-provoking and very easy survey to complete. Thank you.
• Wow. Good to sit down and think about one's core values on a regular basis. An exercise for the heart-brain. Thanks.
• This was both thought provoking and enjoyable!
• Painless and thought provoking - what a great idea - I can only imagine the plethora of differing responses.
• It's always good for people to assess their values as a reminder what they stand for.