RELATIONSHIPS: 5 Rules To Improve Your Daily Interaction With Others

[Columbia, Howard County, Maryland, May 17, 2012]

(1) Get Along with Yourself--The one relationship you will have until you die is with yourself. Treat yourself with the respect and love you deserve.

(2) Value People--You cannot make another person feel important if you secretly feel that he or she is a nobody. Recognize that everyone has innate value and treat them accordingly.

(3) Make the Effort to Form Relationships--The result of a person who has never served others? Loneliness. Chuck Swindoll said, "It's like they say in the Army, when you dig a foxhole, make enough room for two." Reach out, make room and enjoy new relationships.

(4) Understand the Reciprocity Rule--What you put into the lives of others comes back into your own. Give generously, love unfailingly and show respect to everyone.

(5) Follow the Golden Rule--Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. If every person made more decisions based on the Golden Rule, we would all make more right decisions.
If you're not doing something with your life, it doesn't matter how long it is. If you're doing something with your life, it doesn't matter how long it is. Life does not consist of years lived, but of its usefulness. If you are giving, loving, serving, helping, encouraging and adding value to others, you have a useful life!

[John C. Maxwell, Success Magazine, August 2010]