21 Habits to Make Life Better

1. Learning to forgive others as well as yourself.
2. Acting happy even when you don't feel happy.
3. Going for base hits rather than home runs.
4. Giving credit where credit is due.
5. Making sure that each decade brings a sizable increase in your bank of wisdom.
6. Doing good deeds that no one will know of.
7. Making courtesy part of your personality.
8. Being reflective at least once a day.
9. Getting to know yourself.
10. Being grateful.
11. Honing your memory.
12. Remembering that not all eyes are on you.
13. Caring while making regular deposits in your zone of indifference.
14. Avoiding meaningless actions.
15. Showing up and doing the work.
16. Attributing no special virtues to either the powerful or the powerless, the smooth or the famous.
17. Respecting people as individuals, not as members of groups.
18. Pushing back against cheap thought and fads.
19. Maintaining your independence.
20. Being willing to die for certain principles.
21. Recognizing that there is a far greater power in the universe.