Top five qualities

Here’s a thought-provoking question for a Tuesday afternoon: are you the person you want to be?

I’m not talking about aspects of who you are that are determined by outside factors – where you are in your career, if you’ve met the right person, how many friends you have, where you live, etc. I’m talking about specific character traits that only you can control. Are you behaving like you’d like yourself to behave?

It’s a question that I thought about a lot last week. I decided to list the top five qualities that I would like possess, some of which I feel that I already do have somewhat, and some of which I’ve decided to work on.

It was hard for me to keep off the list the qualities that are decided by other people, like “likable” and “interesting,” emotional qualities that are mostly beyond my control such as “happy”, and physical qualities (I mean, sure, I want to be skinnier, but that didn’t make the list).

Above all things, I would like to be (in random order):

Open
Creative
Loving
Nonjudgmental
Kind

Definitely still working on some of those. What are your five?