Dozens Of Ways To Make Life Better

• Call up a neglected friend.
• Drop an old grudge and replace it with some pleasant memories.
• Share a funny story with soemone who's spirits are dragging.
• A good laugh can be better than any medicine.
• Vow not to make a promise you don't believe you can keep.
• Pay a debt.
• Give a soft answer.
• Free yourself of envy or malice.
• Encourage some youth to do his or her best.
• Share your experience and offer support.
• Young people need role models more than they need critics.
• Make a genuine effort to stay in close touch with family and friends.
• Resolve to stop magnifying small problems and shooting from the lip.
• Words that you have to eat have no nutritional value and can be hard to digest.
• Find time to be kind and thoughtful.
• All of us have the same allotment- 24 hours a day.
• Give a compliment. It could provide someone with a badly needed lift.
• Think things through.
• Forgive an injustice.
• Listen more.
• Apologise when you realize you are wrong.
• An aplogy never diminishes a person- it elevates him.
• Don't blow your own horn.
• Try to understand a point of view that is different from your own.
• Few things are 100 percent one way or the other.
• Examine the demands you make on others.
• Smile more.
• Lighten up.
• When you feel your temper is reaching boiling point, ask yourself, "Will it matter a week from today?"
• Laugh the loudest when the joke is on you.
• The sure way to have a friend is to be one.
• We are all connected through our humanity and we need each other.
• Avoid malcontents and pessimists.
• Don't discourage a beginner from trying something risky.
• Nothing ventures means nothing gained.
• The can-do spirit is the fuel that makes things go.
• Clean out your closet.
• Give yourself a reality check
• Take pleasure in the beauty and wonders of nature.
• Walk tall and smile more.
• Don't be afraid to say, "I love you!"
• Give credit when credit is due-- and even when it isn't.