Hello friends, great to be with you all today. Hope you all enjoyed your weekend. It is another week of steemit engagement contest. I am participating in the engagement contest of Steem4Nigeria that has the topic ** Best Characters (Behavioral traits that i have) Vs 3 Worst Characters (behavioral traits that I have)**.

This contest seems to be more of a personal and individual thing. It is a way of my examining myself and bringing out my traits you can think of while pitting them against my worst traits or characters, which I expect to improve on.

My three best characters

As a person, I believe that the determination of of the great qualities of a person is better identified by a different person who observes and sees your way of doing things from a less opinionated point of view.

I have well meaning friends who have told me some positive traits I possess as a person, which is also my strength.

These qualities are

° Kindness

° Hardworking

° Empathy

Kindness - Kindness can be defined as the quality of showing dignity and respect to others, this will include acts of good deeds, offering encouraging and comforting words to help someone in need.

I display this quality by helping others out where they need help, it might by providing cash assistance or by helping out with my time and strength, especially to the elderly ones.

I also display kindness by the way I talk to people. Despite how low or bad their class or social status is, I try to make them feel respected thereby restoring their dignity and self-esteem to them.

Hardworking -

Being hardworking is a trait I truly cherish. A hardworking person does not rely on others to eat and get sustained for the day. These days, in my country, to make a living is very difficult. To do it the right way is even more difficult. Thus this quality helps me to take care of myself and my dependents.

Empathy-

Empathy can be described as the quality of a person putting himself in another person's shoe, the ability to feel and sense other peoples emotion that are undergoing a trial. Trying to imagine the thinking and feeling of an individual passing through stress.

Thus even though many persons use it interchangeably with sympathy, it conveys a more deeper and personal meaning with the object concerned.

I display this quality by imagining and acting out what an individual is passing through, thus giving me a glimpse of how I can be of assistance to the person. It makes me to be more compassionate and loving when caring for those facing hardships.

It also helps me bear some unkind words spoken to me by people after having imagined and felt the circumstances they are in and how they are feeling as at the moment.

Would you advise others to display them?

The three qualities I mentioned above :-

Kindness

Hardworking and

Empathy

are wonderful and desirable traits everyone must cultivate. So I would advise my friends and others to cultivate and grow these great qualities. This will help them maintain a healthy relationship with people, be a force for peace within our locality and make you to be more caring and compassionate.

What are the 3 worst Characters that you sometimes display that even you condemn?

A saying goes that it is a real friend and brother that will tell you that your mouth is smelling.*

I have been told of some bad characters which almost became my habits.

These are

1. Procrastination. - I have this bad habit of delaying matters or things I need to do. Sometimes for no justifiable reason. This have cost me a lot, even in personal matters.

2. Not taking advice. - Most at times, it is difficult to accept advice from other people, especially when I feel they are not in a position to do so. In the long run, I will regret not even considering or giving a thought to it.

3. Excessive carefree attitude.- I tend to live a carefree life. That is not good in certain matters. There are issues that should be dealth with at once and there are some you can let go.

Will you like to stop them? What efforts have you been making toward stopping them?

I will love to eradicate these negative traits in me. This I will do by ensuring that I attend to matters as immediately as possible. Avoid the spirit of keeping it off. Try to remove non-essential matters in my life so as.to keep space for essential things.

There is need to apply self discipline in my life too. Doing my best to listen to advice, give a thought and consideration to it before taking a decision. I would also look at the spirit behind the advice and not the way and manner it is given.

I also need to attach a bit of seriousness to things I do with my life, keeping it in a balance such that I will not be too carefree neither would I be too serious with it to avoid developing mental sickness.

Conclusion

This contest have really brought out somethings about me, helping me to examine myself and being ready to make some necessary changes.

I really appreciate this steemit engagement topic by Steem4Nigeria.

I invite @benson6, @adylinah and @madilyn02 to join in this contest.

Please note that I have been doing 100% power up. Thanks