I want to tell you a story about a lady who is very pretty and very influential, but remains single by her wish. She was very promising due to her higher education qualification, but there was a ‘but’ in her life. She is bad-tempered. She can talk and talk and talk. Gossip has eaten her up that she never knows when she will say what she shouldn’t say. Time passes but she never gets married. Oh what! At 40 she was single.

Looking back, many of her peers are vividly set with their husbands, she was worried about what was happening to her. She started asking questions. She began to imagine what could be wrong with her. She had forgotten that education without good character is like the biblical gold ring on the pig’s snout. She never knows that talking too much had alienated the potential husband from her.

I’m not telling you this story just for the sake of storytelling, I’m telling you the story just so you know that there are many things that we consider minor that are causing us great havoc. Helen never knows that talking out of control can wreak havoc on her.

So what are the minor things in your life: lying, low self-esteem, gluttony, clutter, sleeping too much, laziness, indiscipline, etc. If you never get rid of them, they can also send you where you never want to be. Let Helen’s story be a lesson to you. In whatever you’re doing, make your character look their best.