Cultivating Character

<ul><li>What is the purpose of life and how do we achieve it?</li><li>What does it mean to be a good person and how do I become such a person?</li><li>What makes for good leadership?</li><li>How can I guarantee a more successful marriage and viable family?</li></ul><p></p><p><em>Cultivating Character: A Prescription for Happiness and Success</em> addresses such pivotal questions using a clear concise and common-sense approach. It takes the weighty issues of morality and ethics from an academic philosophical realm and brings them directly to the <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>layperson </span>and student.</p><p></p><p><em>Cultivating Character</em> offers a practical step-by-step approach to becoming a person of conscience. It shows how through education we can learn <em>the nature of the good</em> and through training we can learn <em>how to do the good. </em>The goal is to reach an enduring heightened consciousness called <em>loving the good for its own sake</em>. </p><p></p><p>This book offers clear explanations about the nature of good and evil why good character is important what good character looks like and the central role that marriage and family play in developing the most refined level of emotional and moral intelligence.</p><p></p><p>It provides a pathway to achieve personal transformation by developing and mastering habits of virtue and heart. These result in a personal paradigm shift in which we naturally and consistently use our knowledge skills and talents for the benefit of others.</p><p></p><p>Special features include a collection of astute quotations from moral philosophers and others and a study guide to assist in navigating through the content. In addition the Character Mirror is a unique tool that gathers every known virtue and its counterpart in four comprehensive categories to help each reader visualize how to achieve personal transformation and better relationships.</p><p></p><p>This book is a must-read for parents educators clergy and business leaders young and old. It is also for all inquiring minds who seek to become their true selves and gain lasting happiness and genuine success.</p><p></p><p><em>Cultivating Character</em> reveals how personal character is the <em>bedrock</em> of all human endeavor without which everything else we do is nothing more than a ship on the high seas without sail or rudder.</p><p></p>