Part 2 of Friendships: A series about friendships and how they relate to your success.
A major part of achieving success and living the kind of life that you dream of is giving. This is especially true in friendships and relationships of all sorts. Many people think that to get what you want, you have to take it. There is a universal truth though that the true path to get what you want is to give. When you give, you get. What you sow, you shall reap. If this is true, then what is it we must give to develop great and lasting friendships? I’ll show you the way…
Give Your Friends Your Respect.
Most of the time we give people respect based on what they have done or what they have accomplished. We gauge whether or not they are “worthy” of it based on what we know of what they have achieved, or who they know or are related to.
But I believe we should have a higher standard: We respect people not for what they have done or for who they are related to, or for what they can do for us. Instead, we respect people for simply being.
What would happen in our world, in our companies and in our families if we started with respect for everyone else rather than making them earn it? I think we would see that most people would live up to the respect that we give them!