Cultivating Your Character

Deanna Becket

Description

Are you looking for more peace in your life? Do you wonder how you can develop the habits and character traits that will teach you when to say, "No" to energy-draining activities and "Yes" to becoming the person you've always longed to be?

Then Cultivating Your Character is the perfect guide for you on your path to greater self-esteem, success, leadership, and life-changing new habits.

Deanna Becket takes her readers on an incredible journey, first back in time to learn Benjamin Franklin's thirteen virtues that he developed weekly as habits to build his personal character. By focusing on one character virtue each week and regularly reviewing his progress, Franklin developed lifelong habits for his success. Who better than Benjamin Franklin to learn from, and with author and life coach Deanna Becket's help, you can enjoy the same success in whatever your goals are.

By exploring these thirteen character virtues, you'll learn how to:
* Reduce stress and live a simpler life
* Develop strength in times of adversity
* Keep your word in relation to your responsibilities
* Let the little things go to focus on what really matters
* Choose joy in your thoughts and your words
* Change your communication strategies for the better
* Cultivate your faith to carry you through any crisis
* Listen to the silent voice inside you that knows best

Get ready to enhance your goals, dreams, business, beliefs, family relationships, and more. Dig deep, like the cultivator in the dirt, to sharpen your skills and grow your future.

"Where excellence is expected, excellence is achieved ."
– Deanna Becket

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Confiance en soi et estime de soi
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Self-help
• Self-Esteem
• Personal Growth
• Confiance
• Confiance en soi

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 16 juillet 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456631581
• Langue: English

Extrait

What People Are Saying about Deanna Becket and Cultivating Your Character
 
 
“Deanna Becket reminds us that in each of our lives, the seeds that we plant, grow, water and weed make all the difference to who we become. How does your garden grow?”
 
— Lyssa Danehy deHart, MSW, LICSW, PCC and Author of
StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life
 
 
“Using Benjamin Franklin’s thirteen virtues as a guide—and what better model is there than that?—Deanna Becket walks the reader through how to cultivate true character in ways that allow each of us to be true to ourselves while reaching for our highest good. Her stories, practical examples, and the challenging exercises she offers will have readers reevaluating who they are with extraordinary results.”
 
— Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D. and Award-Winning Author of
Narrow Lives and The Best Place
 
 
“If you want to develop the mindset of a world champion, then start young by reading this book and applying its wisdom to your life, your business, and your family.”
 
— Duane Martinz, Author of Becoming Your Own Champion
 
 
“Have you ever wondered what was the missing link for achieving success? You’ll find it in this book.”
 
— Lynne DiSanto, Majority Whip, South Dakota
State House of Representatives
 
 
“Great stories of grits, guts, and grace! I was inspired and challenged to step up my game in my business and personal life and continue pursuing my inner truth to serve others in need.”
 
— Nicole Gabriel, Author of
Finding Your Inner Truth
 
 
“There are thousands of self-help books that teach you the importance of improving and leading, but it is rare to find one that shows you how and tells a great story of prairie survival. Deanna uses Benjamin Franklin’s principles to drive home important lessons to help positively impact your life.”
 
— Patrick Snow, Publishing Coach and International
Best-Selling Author of Creating Your Own Destiny
 
 
“Deanna blends thought-provoking questions with real-life antidotes that bring leadership to life. When the lessons learned from Cultivating Your Character are applied, they will bring positive changes to the reader’s everyday life.”
 
— Dr. Helen Usera, Owner,
Aspiring Business Consulting
 
 
“I am so honored to be working with my spiritually bonded business partner, Deanna Becket. We have been told that ‘We Get It!’ Now all we have to do is read it, practice it, and become it daily, while we also help anyone willing to listen and learn to build their dreams. Thank you forever, Deanna, for coming into my life.”
 
— LaCota Overton, CEO, Inspiring Success
Coaching with Coty
 
 
“If you are ready to begin your personal development journey, Cultivating your Character should be the first book on your list.”
 
— Michael O’Brien, Real Estate Broker and Author of
Fearing Nothing: Overcoming Anxiety, Panic Attacks,
OCD, PTSD, Phobias, Shyness, and Depression
 
 
“Deanna Becket meets you in the middle of your field. With wisdom from her mentors that is tilled with her own story and her endearing vulnerability, Deanna offers you her hand up and out of the character crisis of our day. Take her hand, people!”
 
— Pastor Scott W. Craig,
Bighorn Canyon Community Church
 
 
“Borrowing from the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin’s thirteen principles, this powerful and dynamic book captures the essential virtues that form the foundation necessary to cultivate a trustworthy character, paramount for today’s personal and professional success.”
 
— Susan Friedmann, CSP, International Bestselling Author of
Riches in Niches: How to Make it BIG in a small Market
 
 
“Deanna Becket’s book Cultivating Your Character is the modern-day version of Benjamin Franklin and his tree of virtues. Building character as Benjamin Franklin describes requires a brick by brick foundation. Deanna Becket’s book is the modern archetypal blueprint for that character structure. Allow Deanna to guide you through this process. A must read for parent and child alike or someone like me who just wants to be hurricane proof.”
 
— Dr. Kenneth J Polke, D.D.S. and
Author of Conquering Your Adversities

 
 
DEANNA BECKET
Cultivating Your Character: Creating Leadership Habits to Master Your Life
Copyright © 2018 by Deanna Becket
 
All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the expressed written consent of the author, except in the case of brief quotations with credit embodied in articles, books, and reviews.
 
Address all inquiries to:
Deanna Becket
www.CultivatingYourCharacter.com
605-390-6965
[e-mail]
 
 
ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-3158-1
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017901858
 
 
Editor: Tyler Tichelaar, Superior Book Productions
Cover and Interior Design: Nicole Gabriel, AngelDog Productions
 
 
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Every attempt has been made to source properly all quotes.
 
For additional copies visit:
www.CultivatingYourCharacter.com
 
 
 
To my mom, the late Debbie Tessmann.
 
Thank you for your patience and endurance through almost all of these stories. They are embedded in me and my siblings as character traits that we are passing on to our children.
Acknowledgments
The summer I worked on this book felt long and grueling. My family found ways to make their own food and let me spend the hours needed to keep on writing. Bull-headedness and persistence were required, and I could not have done it without their backup.
 
Thank you, Chris, for encouraging me to get my first ever J.O.B. in twenty years to fund this endeavor. Thank you to Ian for spending your weeks working at camp. The house was forever quiet for me to focus. Thank you, Kali, for being the constant bookhound you are. Your quietness and patience while I was tucked away with the laptop or pen and paper were invaluable.
 
Thank you to all of my immediate and extended family for their support, cheers, and encouragement.
 
Thank you to my sister, Misty, for your use of a couple of stories from your blog. Adding your writing skill is a sparkle of sunshine on these pages. Thank you to my dad, Roger, and brother, Damon, for the years of fun, memories on the farm, growing up together, and discussion of these stories.
 
Thank you to my mentors over the past twenty years of my growth and transformation, especially Jesus, Joyce Meyer, John C. Maxwell, and Joel Osteen.
 
Thank you to my first business mentor, the late Vicki Donovan.
 
Thank you also to Les Brown, Jack Canfield, Dale Carnegie, Earl
Nightingale, Darren Hardy, Napoleon Hill, Mark and Davene Januszewski, Garrison Keillor, Og Mandino, Duane Martinz, Lacota Overton, the Apostle Paul, Dave Ramsey, Sherri Reindl, Jim Rohn, Dorothy Rosby, Darlene Roth, Dr. David Schwartz, Patrick Snow, Dr. Helen Usera, and Zig Ziglar.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Harrowing the Habits
Character Virtue: Responsibility
Chapter 1
Feeding Your Mind and Planting Seeds of Success
Character Virtue: Respect
Chapter 2
Taking Action
Character Virtue: Courteousness
Chapter 3
Speaking Boldly and Increasing Your Influence
Character Virtue: Goodness
Chapter 4
Believing in You, Believing in Others
Character Virtue: Excellence
Chapter 5
Triumphing in Trials
Character Virtue: Happiness
Chapter 6
Choosing Joy
Character Virtue: Self-Control
Chapter 7
Choosing Life: Health, Mind, and Mouth
Character Virtue: Peace
Chapter 8
Letting Go
Character Virtue: Perseverance
Chapter 9:
Digging In
Character Virtue: Balance
Chapter 10
Balancing It All
Character Virtue: Service
Chapter 11
Helping Humbly
Character Virtue: Honesty
Chapter 12
Sharpening Your Saw
Character Virtue Contentment
Chapter 13
Silencing the Noise
A Final Note
Becoming a Leader with Character
Recommended Resources
About the Author
About Diamond D Coaching
Cultivating Your Character Mastermind Group
Book Deanna Becket to Speak at Your Next Event
 
Preface

“Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour, day by day, year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.”
 
— E. Lamar Kincaid
 
 
Originally, this book was to have twelve chapters of leadership habits—one to develop each month for a year. Now it is at thirteen. Thirteen: the unlucky number, the odd count, or a bonus chapter? Thirteen is known in the baking world as a bonus in a pack of baked goods: The baker’s dozen. You get thirteen donuts for the price of twelve. Here is a baker’s dozen of character traits to build in your life so you can get better or be your best next year, in five years, and in twenty years.
 
I encourage you to read this book through once, without stopping. Then go back and start at the beginning. Focus on Chapter One for an entire thirty days. It takes thirty days to make or break a habit. Write the character trait at the top of your calendar page every day for the entire month in red ink. If you start mid-month, adjust it on your calendar accordingly. If you want to plan ahead, flip to Chapter Two, and then the next month, write the character trait and continue on through the book and your calendar. Now, start reading just that chapter for the entire month. Every morning and every evening, read ten to fifteen minutes or more.
 
When you get to the reviews at the end of each chapter, write your answers or grab a notebook, journal, or other fun writing book and truly reflect on the questions. Write down your answers in full. Quickly jot down words or full sentences that come to mind. In a year, you will be doing it again. Date the top of the page and write down the book and page number so you can look back at your growth over the year. It really is amazing to see your own growth in the answers you have written in the past.