There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning Your Personality - The Mirror of your Heart! Everyone longs to be liked and loved. We all want to appear attractive. Indeed, who does not desire to be admired, respected and considered important? Although many might like to believe that as long as one is happy and content with oneself, the opinion of others and their acceptance don't matter much. But for a happy and fulfilling life it is important that the people around us treat us with love and concern. A pleasing personality is a prerequisite to experience all this many more from others. Your personality is the mental, spiritual and physical traits that distinguish you from all others. It is the sum total of your personal characteristics and appearances that makes you a unique individual. The clothes you wear, the line in your face, the tone of your voice, the thoughts you have and the character shaped by those thoughts - all this forms part of your personality. Your personality can draw people to you; it can also drive people away from you. Developing a pleasing personality starts with making an inventory of our habits, both good and bad. Habits, as such, are the most outward expressions of your personality. Now, if we are able to introspect and weed out those unhealthy attitudes and habits which are part of our personality, we would each be able to develop a truly pleasing personality. Always remember, your personality can capture the heart of another, even as it mirrors your own! ASHOK MAHAJAN Director, Rotary International (2007-09) Trustee, The Rotary Foundation (2009-13)