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Naye Urja, Naye Umang

Being a teacher I realize the importance of academics in my students life but simultaneously i
also cannot ignore the fact that how vital it is for a child to come out from school with a
wholesome development and learning of life, not just from the books.
Today, i would love to pen down my thoughts on the importance of building a strong character
and personality along with academics.
I would like to ask, how do you define a good character and personality?
In my simple way of defining it: It's just the energy that someone carries around and emits to
others. Character is like a perfume which a person wears and everyone around gets curious
about.
So how do you build those charismatic traits? Anyone can do that with some simple changes in
their lifestyle and understanding what it takes to have a great character and personality.
A few of my own learnings and observations from life are:
Righteousness - Always speak for yourself, try to analyze the difference between right and
wrong furthermore stand for what is right.
Attitude – A person of great personality has an attitude which is super positive. Attitude is a
person’s overall behaviour towards himself and others. A person with positive vibes always tends
to have a great personality. Some people are born with it, some develop it by careful
experiences and observation.
Behavior – If you’re pleasant , you’ll have good friends. If you’re cheerful and smiling face, you’ll
be pleasant to the other person. Good looks don’t matter, your aura does. Your happiness does.

Body language - Smile often, smile because you “choose” to be happy. Smile because there
are enough sad things in the world and fight it with a smile. Did you know smile is contagious.
Have you ever seen a grumpy man not burst into a smile in front of a toddler ? I bet you can't
find me a person who would not smile back at a toddler.

Friendly - Be friendly not because you need to make friends and feel important. Be genuinely
friendly and helpful. Some people make friends in a fraction of a second, some take longer,
some are just filled with anxiety. Be more friendly in life and you’ll notice that people are noticing
you. You’ll be building a friendly personality.

Confidence – Great personalities are highly confident. People look at their role models and think
: How do I talk with such confidence? How do I make such bold decision with such confidence ?
I can’t do it.

Wait a sec, PAUSE. Why the negativity ? This is exactly the reason of low confidence. You’re
telling yourself that you cannot do it. Just change your way to look at it and play with the words.
Lets take a baby step and change the words “I can’t do it” to “Can’t I do it?”. That’s it, you’ve
made your first bold confident statement. You’re challenging yourself. You’ve started being
confident. So remember, confidence is just a mind game. Be bold, be extrovert. Be confident.

Let's s be honest. Not everyone is confident. But the reason you’re not confident is because
something is new or you’ve never tried before. You’re in doubt if you’ll be successful at it or what
is everyone going to think about you. NOPE! Burn this thought right now. Confident people don’t
think what others will think. Lions don’t care about the opinion of the sheep. If they did, they
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