A sentence I bet you’ve never heard

“I need to be a little wealthier first, then I’ll be an honest, loving, disciplined, and other-focused person.”

I’ve never heard anyone say this. I bet you haven’t either.

It feels ludicrous to even write. Nobody actually thinks this way. You are either trying to be a good person or you aren’t.

Character is not something, in real life, that you put off until life gets more comfortable. We are either one of those people right now or we aren’t.

And how do we know we are? If we look in the mirror and ask honestly: “Was I a good person today?”

Asking the question is a small but powerful act of showing up, and in my experience is at least 60% of what it takes to have character.

All the accountability we need is to look in the mirror and be honest.

Am I that person or am I not? For real?

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If you’re someone who already looks in the mirror with honesty, you’ll want to read the book I wrote. It’s good enough to charge for, but I self-published it and chose to offer a free version — because the introspection it triggers is an investment the reader makes.