Leadership Thought: A 20 To Do List You'll Be Glad You Did

Dear Friends,

I don't remember who sent it to me, but the list below is a good one to tape on your wall. Pick out a couple of these action items to do each day, and the world will be just a little better for your efforts.

1. Compliment three people every day. 

2. Watch a sunrise at least once a year.

3. Be the first to say, "Hello."

4. Live beneath your means.  

5. Treat everyone like you want to be treated.

6. never give up on anybody. Miracles happen. new. paragraph 7.

7. Forget the Joneses.

8. Never deprive someone of hope. It may be all he has. 

9. Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage. 

10. Be tough-minded but tender hearted.

11. Be kinder than necessary.

12. don't. forget a person's greatest emotional need is to be. appreciated

13. Keep your promises. 

14. Learn to show cheerfulness even when you don't feel like it. 

15. Remember that overnight success usually takes about 15 years. 

16. Leave everything better than you found it.

17. Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do.

18. When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone's day.

19. Don't rain on other people's parades. 

20. Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

And for good measure, I would add, treat a man as he is, and he will remain the same. Treat a man as he could be, and you will help make him what he should be.

Have a great day but remember "it will only be a great day if you make it a God day." The late Dr. Bob Cook