Leadership Thought: How to Make Yourself Well Remembered While Making the World a Little Better Place to Live.

Dear Friends,

I have a friend in our baseball umpiring association who recently sent me a list of reminders of the actions he seeks to take each day he awakes. He has it conspicuously posted where he will see it before he heads to work.

It is a wonderful list, and one, if followed, would make the world a much better place in which to live as well as making the one practicing them a most remembered friend.

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.

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 feel 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 I would personally add an additional thought to my friend’s list.

21. The best way to remember and practice each of the above is to do what Jesus commands: “Love one another as I He has loved you.” When you heed this command, you will automatically be practicing each one of the above reminders, and best yet, the world will know that you are His disciple. 

Enough said.

Yours in faith and friendship,

Tom

Indebted to Tony Benedetto for his 20 reminders.