The 5-5-5 Plan

Week 43 – 5-5-5 Plan – Theme – Personality  

 

Monday: This week and the final week of this month is focused on personality – What we are, how we evolve – it’s an exciting topic so here is our first quote:

From William Lyon Phelps “Every person in the world may not become a personage. But every person may become a personality. The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Interesting thoughts can live only in cultivated minds. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays at the theater, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world; and they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.”

 

            Word: Personage often used to express someone’s significance, importance, or elevated status – so we may not become that – okay – we can still work on our personality!

 

You Create Your Day by the way You Think! Be Present!

Go make it a Magnificent Day!

 

Tuesday:

            Quote: Today’s quote about personality is from Julian Huxley who said, “The well-developed, well-patterned individual human being is, in a strictly scientific sense, the highest phenomenon of which we have any knowledge; and the variety of individual personalities is the world’s highest richness.”

Love that thought – the highest richness!

 

            Word: Personification – the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form – The new film Wall-e comes to mind

 

You Create Your Day by the way You Think! Be Present!

Go make it a Magnificent Day!

 

Wednesday:

            Quote: B.H. Streeter gave us the quote for our hump day, “No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.”

This is the second quote expressing that personality is our richest asset – all the more reason to develop a pleasing personality!

 

            Word: Persnickety – placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details: fussy

I love this word – it’s fun to say out loud – and who wants a persnickety personality?

 

You Create Your Day by the way You Think! Be Present!

Go make it a Magnificent Day!

 

 

Thursday:

            Quote: Edith Johnson gave us today’s quote “An appealing personality is not something grafted on from without. It is not like a coat of paint applied to a building or cosmetics used on the face. It is expressed through the body, the mind, the heart and the spirit. Although some persons seem to have been born with an exceptionally appealing personality, no one has a monopoly on it.”

 

            Word: Peruse – meaning – formal read thoroughly or carefully. Examine carefully or at length. This is new to me – I thought that peruse was kind of casual – I’ll peruse through it… glad I looked this up!

 

You Create Your Day by the way You Think! Be Present!

Go make it a Magnificent Day!

 

Friday:

            Quote: Our last quote of this week comes from F.W. Pethick-Lawrence who said this about personality, “If I were asked to sum up in a single phrase the main purpose of individual life I would express it as the enlargement of personality. Unless an individual can transcend the limits of class, sex, race, age and creed, his personality remains of necessity to that extent incomplete.”

The main purpose in life is to enlarge the personality – work on ourselves – what a great purpose!

 

            Word: Perplexity – the inability to deal with or understand something complicated or unaccountable.  – a complicated or baffling situation or thing. The human personality has it’s own perplexity – we are all perplexing people

 

Joke of the week was: Sarah Palin and the Pope