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with life rafts is that they float on water. After you are back on shore, the life raft no longer serves its purpose. Another example would be trying to cover the stench of decaying debris by spraying air sanitizers. The fresh scent will last for a period of time, but unless you remove the decaying debris, the stench will resurface.

I have attended literally hundreds of hours of motivational seminars. I have received dozens of binders full of "useful" handouts, enough flyers, handouts, booklets, and packets, to fill a 500-gallon dumpster. During each motivational session, I diligently highlight the most inspiring points so that I can go back and fully digest the content later. Of course, I never get back to the passage. In fact, I rarely review the material after I leave the seminar. I generally file away the binders and promise to refer to them as needed. The seminars were motivational. The speakers were great. The information was on point, but I did not have time to add one more piece of paper to my hectic schedule. I did not have the time to make a paradigm shift. It was just not that important. The same thing happens with every area of our lives, including our character. If we do not make a conscious effort to discover why we need to change, we will never change. After we decide that we need to change, we must be willing to get to the root of the problem itself.

Before a person can change, the root causes for their thinking must be examined. If you do not get to the "root" of your thought processes, you will never be able to effect a sustainable character change. When a person changes the way that they think, their behavior will also change. But, forget about the notion of trying to change until you figure out why you think the way that you do. Once you figure out why you think the way that you do about certain things, you can then begin to change the way that you think. After you change the way that you think, your attitude will change and then your behavior will follow. Thus, when your attitude and your behavior become more congruent with one another, a new habit is formed. When a new habit is formed, the results will be evident in your character.
There have been times in my life that my character required a major overhaul. I pretended to have a noble character, when in reality while I was pretending to do the right things, I had some major character issues that I had learned to conceal. I knew all about the requirements to live a noble life, but I decided

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