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Actions

Let's take a close look at this Lifelong Hint:

Lifelong Hint:
For the most part, we do not have control over how others act.
And, we cannot always help how we feel. We can try to control
how we act. How we act helps us feel good or bad about ourselves.

Do you agree with the above ideas? Write your first reactions, knowing that you are free to keep or to change them:

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LIZ asks, "What's all this business about actions and feelings?"

First, Liz, let's consider actions. You know a lot of words that grammar books call action words or verbs, words like "jump" and "run." Character building, considers actions in a different sense. Character building looks at actions that can affect you or another person for better or for worse. 

For example, actions like teasing, or fighting, or helping, or sharing can affect you and others for better or for worse.

List other words that can affect you and others for better or for worse:

teasing
fighting
helping
sharing
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Check your list of words. Do all of your words express an action? Maybe, some of them express feelings. For example: anger, joy, love, hate. 

We can feel anger toward someone, but may or may not act angry.

We can feel love for someone, but may or may not act lovingly.

"So what?" asks Liz.

Can you tell Liz why it's important to know the difference between a feeling and an action? Go ahead, tell Liz what you think:

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Here's what Character ED would tell Liz:

People of character take responsibility for how they act. 

They may or may not feel the way they act.

Write an example ED might give Liz to help her understand. Maybe it will be an example based on a time you acted one way, but felt another way:

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"Hey! Feelings are as important as actions," says Liz.

"True!" says Character ED. "However, to act responsibly, we need to consider consequences, and not act only on how we feel." 

Think over this example:

Josh felt angry when Buster called him a <  > .

Consider actions Josh might take.

Josh could:
punch Buster
act cool
tell Buster what he thinks

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Here are some consequences, or results of actions to consider. (You may think of others.)

Consequences: 
If Josh punches Buster, name calling could stop; a fight could begin.
If Josh acts cool, he may confuse Buster...for better or for worse.
If Josh tells Buster what he thinks, Buster knows...for better or for worse.

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Choose the action you think Josh should take, and the consequence you would like to see happen.

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Write a little story about a real or imaginary "Josh and Buster" or "Judy and Betty" or use your own set of names. Remember what Character ED says:

People of character take responsibility for how they act. 
They may or may not feel the way they act.

Endings can be tricky. Show how one of your characters feels at the end, and whether or not he/she acts, responsibly.

My Action Story

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