"All too often our life becomes a routine of unproductive, meaningless labor without real passion or purpose. As a detective in determining what precedes both health and dis-ease, I have noted a trend of attitude and behavior that leads to health, happiness and fulfillment or in contrast to distress, dis-ease and unhappiness. I appreciate that Bob Knowlton has the background and insight to establish this website which will serve as a resource to refocus ourselves on what is of most importance. The OLC Website has active steps which may lead us to reach abundance in our lives. May we always remember our true potential and share with others all that have assisted us in our pursuit of happiness."
Dr. Troy W. Graf, D.C.
Founder of Natural Healing & Wellness Center
Founder of Turn Key Wellness Centers

There was a child that went forth every day, And the first object that
he looked upon, that object he became, And that object became
a part of him for the day or a certain part of that day,
Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

Walt Whitman


Our life's clock only has so much time on it. What are the most important things we should focus our time on? Important things like family, business, friends, associates, fun, health and productivity come to mind. How can I become more aware of opportunities and expand life-enhancing possibilities? How can I increase my ability to help make the lives of others better and more fulfilling? I can't remember a time in my life when I haven't had a passion for discovering and awakening to exciting, life-enhancing insights that answer these questions.

Sometimes the process for arriving at the point of transition either personal or in business can unfortunately be a long and arduous journey, but it doesn't have to be, and it shouldn't be. In fact when positive transition takes place it is instantaneous. It is only the process of getting to point of transition that uses up a significant portion of life's clock.

Our Character Matters eWorkshop focuses and heightens our attention and ability to make important changes in our lives. This eWorkshop is the result of more than 25 years of insight gained through applied learning and leadership experience.

Our Character Matters eWorkshop sessions have been conducted and successfully applied in several diverse situations which have included small and medium sized companies and a fortune 500 company. They are proven to be highly effective for achieving results that build an exciting, personal foundation quickly, that energizes and sustains interdependence and creates the right conditions and authenticity of purpose for achieving things considered to be most important.

These sessions exact specific life-enhancing thoughts and resulting outcomes. They push for self-discovery of unique personal qualities that are within easy reach. These sessions work effectively and quickly because they use principles and ideas that simplify things in our life that we have previously mistaken to be more complex than they really are.

Our Character Matters eWorkshop is fun and energizing to work with, reawakening us to things that have the greatest importance to us. Through participating in these sessions comes the realization that our conversion to focusing on achieving the things of most importance to us has a direct positive influence on every aspect of our lives, family, business, friends, associates, fun, health and productivity. When our model defining what is most important is muddied and unclear the results are the opposite of this positive impact.

During the process of completing each of these eWorkshop Sessions, you will find that your view of yourself and others will become different and enhanced. Your personal and family life will be more focused on things of most importance. Your strategic view of business will be changed. You will gain a renewed understanding that activities aligned with high values result in increased overall productivity. You will develop and implement deeper meaning, more effective and expansive vision. Your strategic planning preparation will be "abundance, reality, and execution-based". You will experience a fresh, exciting and energizing personal focus gained through remembering and becoming reacquainted with what is really important and acting upon that remembrance. These sessions open the door effectively for this discovery.

I have been asked the following three questions on numerous occasions:

• Who should participate in the Our Character Matters eWorkshop for Personal Enhancement & Transition?

• Who would benefit the most from participating in Our Character Matters eWorkshop for Personal Enhancement & Transition?

• Who would benefit the quickest from participating in Our Character Matters eWorkshop for Personal Enhancement & Transition?

My answer to each of these questions is every person, leader, and business will benefit from participating in Our Character Matters eWorkshop!

I have also been asked “Is there some kind of secret about how Our Character Matters eWorkshop for Personal Enhancement & Transition works?” “There is no secret”. Simply stated there is a powerful, uplifting, teaching source available to everyone that creates and sustains personal excellence. Unfortunately, most of us for uncountable reasons have literally through our choices transitioned away from, restricted and even shut this source off.

Our Character Matters eWorkshop for Personal Enhancement & Transition use simple common-sense techniques designed to rethink, rediscover, reacquaint, recapture and turn this most essential wonderful source back on effectively and quickly.

This session from the Our Character Matters eWorkshop is the first of ongoing monthly sessions that progressively focus on achieving quick life-enhancing transition. Concepts from this sample session and each of the following monthly sessions in their simplicity are powerful, inciting personal thoughts and activities that open the door to self-discovery, new opportunities, and possibilities. These sessions WORK!

Welcome to Our Character Matters for Personal Enhancement & Transition. Change your life and expand your personal and professional capacity. Discover, create and renew goals that align with your highest personal and professional values and beliefs. Our Character Matters eWorkshop for Personal Enhancement & Transition is a powerful “life-enhancing” focus.
Bob Knowlton, Jr.

This Month’s Focus:

Our Character Matters
• eWorkshop Something is Wrong

The Facilitator
• Strategic Dialogue
• Discussion and Solutions for Case Study Number One
• Forum Participation

Something Is Wrong
When underachievement becomes an acceptable choice and standard that we can live with, something is wrong. When our thoughts, interests, choices, and activities don’t align with high core values and beliefs that we know to be important and correct, something is wrong. When treating others disrespectfully becomes a habit, something is wrong. When having great character is no longer important, something is wrong.

Have you ever thought about the many choices we make each day that have either a positive or negative impact on our life and the lives of those we love and chose to associate with? Some choices we make are relatively unimportant and have little consequence. However, many choices we make daily are highly complex, critically important, impacting our families, friendships and businesses in very specific ways.

Our choices are directed by the dictating substance of our character. Our character choices literally create realities, powerful behaviors and significant consequences that have a positive or negative impact on every aspect of our lives. Our choices impact leadership style, perception and effectiveness. Our real ability to help and benefit others successfully is also impacted ultimately by our character choices.

There is a major influencing difference between people with contrary character-types. We have all met and been influenced by people with great character. We have also, unfortunately, been around and influenced by people who had less than great character. Think about the effect these opposing character-type individuals had on you. How did the substance of their character and decision-making affect you? How did they affect goal setting? How did they affect your motivation and desire to accomplish important objectives? How did they affect your creativity? How did their influence affect your life’s highest perspective of potential, possibility, and opportunity?

Greatness is achieved when the character of an individual influences the character of another to seek and actualize self-improving goals and excellence. These luminaries stand-out because their choices focus intuitively on the well-being of others, inspiring them consequently to seek the same. They choose to set high standards for achievement. They choose to align their personal activities with high values and beliefs. These are the ones who lift us and inspire us to seek and live with greater purpose. They buoy our spirits with contagious enthusiasm. These are the ones who have discovered and travel life’s higher road. They choose to associate with others who travel this higher road. They choose to make room for, encourage, teach and invite others to discover and travel the higher road with them. In other words, greatness gives cause to others by encouraging and motivating others to realize their greatest potential by seeking, focusing on learning, improving and achieving together the most abundant, and important objectives.

The substance of greatness reflects a unique and clear understanding of how applied values and purpose impact actual and potential quality and performance for self and others. Common characteristics of greatness are a highly defined sense of integrity, purpose and value combined with ability to define, create and execute desirable outcomes for objectives of greatest importance. The influence of giving and receiving through the positive power of sharing high personal purpose, qualities and values significantly raises overall expectation and productivity. Greatness recognizes that creating and achieving the
level of this type of interdependent foundation supported by shared vision and value is critical to identifying and executing the life’s most purposeful objectives.

Visualization and Writing Exercises for Something is Wrong

As you read Something is Wrong describe your thoughts in a brief paragraph.

Describe a person in your life whose character had a strong, positive and lifelong impact on you.

Describe the reason(s) why this person’s character had this type of impact on your life.

Describe how you and this person are alike today.

Describe how you and this person are not alike today.
What three adjectives would you use to describe this person?

What three adjectives would you use to describe yourself?

What three adjectives would others use to describe you?

Identify an important decision that you have to make, and visualize this person making this same decision.

Visualize and describe yourself as having the same character traits as this person.

Create and define a personal guiding principle that focuses on the principles of Something is Wrong.

Keep a Journal of Thoughts and Events that focus on learning, improvement and fulfillment.

The Facilitator: Strategic Dialogue, Discussion and Solutions

Case Study: Number One
The Chief Executive Officer of a Fortune 500 company said recently:
“Our Company has successfully developed and marketed the most sophisticated laser technology in the world, but at the same time, we have failed to develop an equally important sense of ability and reality, that is, to ask ourselves and answer the critical questions that will strategically ensure our future competitiveness and survival in the marketplace.”

• Are we prepared to make change?

• Do we know what to change?  

• Will we create change that will have a long-term positive impact on our Company’s ability to compete successfully in the future?

• Is our near and long-term strategic vision accurate?

• Do we have the right people in place?

• Will our Company provide unparalleled career opportunities for our exceptional executives and associates?

• Do our strategic values unite and align our most important efforts?

Case Study: Dialogue and Discussion

In what effective way(s) would you apply Something is Wrong eWorkshop Session to this case study?

How would a person living the principles of Something is Wrong approach this eWorkshop case study successfully?

As the strategic facilitator for this fortune 500 company, describe what your initial approach to this strategic situation would be.

What valuable personal “lessons learned” both positive and negative could you apply as a possible solution to the situation?

Describe in a short paragraph the situational result you would like to achieve.

Identify three (3) essential areas that you would focus on.

Within each of the three (3) above essential areas, identify three (3) critical activities you would implement.

Share your thoughts with others on the forum