Understanding Self-Care

Understanding your personality traits and moral qualities is key in mastering a stong character. Character traits are distinctive features which are exhibited by all members of a group, and which are capable of being described or measured. Character traits are attributes of... a character, either physical or emotional or otherwise. Let's look at a few good character traits that impact your happiness. I invite you to look over this character traits list and pick at least one that you begin working on:1. Integrity is a character trait that has strong moral principles and core values and then conducting your life with those as your guide. When you have integrity, you main your adherence to it whether or not other people are watching.

2. Honesty is a character trait that is more than telling the truth. It's living the truth. It is being straightforward and trustworthy in all of your interactions, relationships, and thoughts. Being honest requires self-honesty and authenticity

3. Loyalty is a character trait of faithfulness and devotion to your loved ones, your friends, and anyone with whom you have a trusted relationship. Loyalty can also extend to your employer, the organizations you belong to, your community, and your country.

The are two basic aspects of our behavioral traits and characteristics:

• Inherited behavior (traits)

• Learned behavior (characteristics)

When we combine them, they form what is commonly referred to as a type of personality with a significant difference between the two aspects:

• Traits can't be changed because they are neurological hardwired and thus fixed,

• Characteristics can be changed as they are acquired through external influences and experiences.

Behavioral Traits Traits are responsible for how our brain develops and functions in gathering data, processing information, and making decisions. Traits can help to determine the choices we make and how act on our decisions.

People interact and communicate with us based on our behavior towards them and our patterns of behavior in general defines how they will deal with us. Traits influence how we learn and what if any value we place on utilize our intuition. Our traits can define our perception of what constitutes trouble. Consequently, they influence our problem solving preferences and the solutions we create.

In addition, behavior traits are responsible for:

• Our core value system, the principles, and basic beliefs that form our code of conduct that in turn is responsible for our behavior.

• Developing and expressing natural talents.

• Filters our internal and external perceptions of our surroundings.

• Our emotional reactions and rational responses to experiences and situations,

• What motivates and irritates us.

• Our choice of the people we are attracted to others which we avoid.

Behavioral Characteristics Behavior characteristics refers to behavior we acquire through our perceptions of opinions, criticisms, and social expectations held by other people. This becomes the basic foundation of our learned habits, attitudes, and comfort zones that impact the totality of our life.