""Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
LISTEN
When we think of what we would like others to do to us, one of the things that first comes to mind is that we would like people to be interested in us and actually listen and pay attention when we speak.
We all want to be interesting, but you need somebody to be interested.
BE KIND
"It is more important to be kind than to be right."
Dalai Lama
PRAISE
"You praise them, you drop the "p" and *raise* them, and you raise you, and you raise their expectations, you raise their future."
Mary Kay (Cosmetics)
"You always treat a sergeant as a general and he or she will become a general."
Cabot Roberts, motivational teacher
Napoleon Bonaparte said that people will die for a blue ribbon, meaning that they will die for praise rather than for a financial award.
It is not the money; it is the praise that is missing. We really want other people to recognise us, and help us become better.
COACH
It is important to us to coach... This coaching never comes from a spirit of criticism, but from a spirit of love and assistance to lift the other person even higher.
SHARE
"The greatest gift is not that of presents but that of presence."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
BE LOYAL
Loyalty is when you take on a cause and stick with it through thick and thin. When you take on the friendship of a person, or when you take on a task or a job, you stay with it...
Loyalty is not about reciprocating; it is about giving without expecting. It is invisible...
Steven Covey taught us that loyalty is always to the person that is absent.
BE THERE
When we are down in life we all hope that someone will be there for us. Invest the time to be there.
When you are with a person, be there and not somewhere else. This means that you have to be engaged and actively listening.
One of the greatest compliments we can give a person when we are with them is to turn off our cell phone...
It also works with children. (!!!) Just get down on the floor with them on their level, seeing the world through their eyes. Play the games they want to play, giggle...
With no barriers between you, there´s nothing in the way of sharing the true love in life.
INSPIRE: BE A MODEL
We all need somebody to inspire us and be a model for us...
When something inspires you, you take life in, and you want to take in something that is going to keep making you bigger, grander, greater, nobler, and - most important - a superior contributor.
You can´t inspire or model unless you build characteristics that other people admire. This is the Golden Rule."
The Three Musketeers, YouPublish.com
http://www.youpublish.com/files/5174/Ideas-That-Can-Change-Your-Life-101-Books