Advice of the Month: To Be Loved, Heed This Advice

• Meet people first with cheerfulness and friendliness.

• Do not be stingy with your smile, even toward strangers among them.

• When you happen upon one of your acquaintances, greet him with eagerness and warmth.

• Do people a kindness without asking a kindness in return for your deed.

• Look for people's good points and mention them, and overlook their faults.

• Let people feel your appreciation of them.

• Praise people for the beautiful things in them, and avoid indulging in biting criticism.

• Cooperate with people humbly, even if you are the head over them.

• Do your utmost to be pleasant with every creature, so that no coldness or haughtiness ever issues from you.

• Think of what others want, not of what you want.

• Pave the way for others to express their opinion, and do not force your opinion upon people.

• Take notice of people's good deeds, and remember a kindness however small.

• Always profit by the remarks of others, and do not cling to your own opinion, reckoning it always right.

• When you take part in a work, give the place of leadership to another, and keep for yourself a humble position — this shows that you are great.

• And if you are a leader, address no one in a tone of command, but with the utmost gentleness.

• Show enthusiasm and devotion in every project you take part in, for there is no good in cold ladies of little activity.