Treat Your Family Members As Your Treat Your Best Customers
In all your interactions with the members of your family, and with others, make it a
habit to practice good manners, to be courteous and kindly with everyone with whom you interact. There is nothing that will set you apart as a quality person
faster than the habit of being courteous and kindly in every situation.
Always say “please” and “thank you.” Be patient and wait your turn in
conversations. Open the doors for other people when appropriate. Never criticize,
complain or condemn. Attempt to be gracious and friendly with everybody, and in
every interaction. The very best and most respected people in our society are men
and women who make a habit of being well mannered in everything they do. And
you can develop the manners you need by regularly practicing the manners that
you most admire in other people.
Forgive and Let Go
Perhaps the most important habit that you can develop to have wonderful
relationships, and to live a long and happy life, is the habit of forgiveness.
Every religion, and every spiritual tradition, seems to have forgiveness as a core
principle for spiritual development. By forgiveness, I mean your ability to freely
forgive other people for anything they have ever done or said that has hurt you in
any way. The ability to forgive opens the keys to the spiritual kingdom. The ability
to forgive frees you from the past and makes you a completely different person.
Virtually all negative emotions, anger, frustration, guilt, resentment, envy, jealously and blame arise from the inability to forgive a person for something he or
she has done or said in the past.
Many people go through their entire lives still angry and resentful toward one or
both of their parents for a mistake that their parents made with them at an early
age. They are still angry because they felt that one of their parents was unfair,
unjust, unsupportive, closed-minded, or unduly critical or hurtful.
Taken from : Million Dollar Habits
