Do you ever feel like your relationships suck and result in you feeling completely negative towards others? Do you find that things just don’t seem to be falling in to place, no matter how hard you try? Sometimes it helps to apply the gratitude principal – being thankful for whatever you have, no matter how much or how little you have, a thankful heart can help you in your dislike for other people.
I suggest we practice the following 10 golden steps that will help us to be more friendly and positive towards other people, not to condemn them, but to try to understand them.
When you look at somebody, stop and think, that:
- This person is seeking joy, as I am.
- This person wants to avoid pain and trouble, just as I do.
- This person also had hard times of suffering and bitterness in his life.
- This person is seeking solutions to his problems as I am.
- This person is learning to live and understand life as I am.
- This person is trying to understand God and serve Him as I am.
- This person is not perfect, just as I am not.
- This person wants to be accepted and understood as much as I do.
- This person wants to love and be loved, just as I do.
- This person has something that I do not have, and on the contrary, I have something that he does not have. I need him and he needs me. We need each other.
These 10 points help us to treat others with an open mind, confidence and fairness, in order to accept each other with love. You might be struggling with something right now, but remember, someone else has it worse!
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