Do something that blesses someone around you - or brightens your own life. Here are some ways to become a nicer person and make your life loving and better : 1. Return curtnss with kindness. Recently a friend as rude to me. I felt an immediate surge of anger, but instead of repaying him in kind I decided to try to see him from a different angle. What I saw was a tense person who seemed about an inch away from tears. I remarked , " You seem to be having a tough day." " Oh, I am ! he replied , and started down a list. I felt much better after we chatted, and I think he did too. 2. Call your friend or a relative you love, but seldom see. better yet, drop them a note. 3. Keep promises . If you have to delay events or treats explain why you must, but don't forget. 4. Renew an old friendship and forgive yourself your yesterdays. We all have thank-you notes we haven't written, Sick or bereaved friends we should have called. It's easy to avoid them because you've tarried so long. Don't apologize , don't explain and don't put it off any longer. Just write or call to say you were thinking about them, pick up the friendship, and go on from today. 5. Become the person you always wanted to. Write a letter to yourself describing the kind of person you would like to be. Put it where it's accessible , and read it regularly - the first sunday of each month, perheps. Set about being the kind of person you described. 6. Share the gift of reading. Ask your teacher about local literacy programmes that need volunteers to teach people to read. 7. Give a warm thank-you on a cold day. When you buy your cofee or tea some blustery winter afternoon, get an extra cup to give to the police officer or to a cleaner of your locality. 8. Show appeciation to the unappreciated. Write "Thank-you for your good work" on a big pience of paper and tape it to yur trash can for local garbage collection teams to see. 9. Don't put things off untill the last minute. Take the hassle out of getting ready for ocassions. Gather your clothes and have them ready on hangers, shoes polised, one day in advance. 10. Celebrate daily life. Treat every day as an occasion. Be your best , show your best each day. 11. Create your own island or kingdom of tranquility. Paint your bookshelf and studytable white, and have a lot of white in the rest of the room too. It's so bright , white lifts your spirits.
