10 Life Lessons You Need to Know on Treating Others

© by Jensen DG. Mañebog

There are life lessons or helpful tips concerning treating or dealing with other people, which are undeniably important and practically effective. The following are some of the examples:

1. Listen to someone who is speaking

If you patiently listen, the one speaking will recognize your appreciation, respect, concern, and attention. And as the saying goes, “Respect begets respect.”

2. Don’t judge someone for his or her belief.

Don’t think ill of anyone just because he or she has a different religion from your own. Also, don’t judge a person based on his or her social status, family background, or political affiliation.

3. Be true to your words and promises.

Be honest and reliable. A respectable person is one who is honest in his words. He can be trusted that he will do what he promises.

4. Properly deal with those who have offended you.

If you hold anger against anyone, consider talking to him or her about it. You might be surprised to learn that this person has no idea that he or she has offended you.

5. Be yourself all the time.

In dealing with other people, don’t pretend to be someone else. As we’ve been mentioning, “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

6. Treat people equally

The ability to treat people equally is a sign of a mature and wise mind. The great Albert Einstein once said, “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

7. Be practically selfless

Yes, living your life for other people can be good, but this, too, entails that you have already lived your life for yourself first and foremost. In fact, there are times when you have to do what’s good for you, even if it means hurting even some people you care for.

8. Refuse to be irritated

When you feel that you are almost becoming angry, take a pause. Take ten, slow deep breaths. Think of something funny. Try to imagine the best scene in your favorite comedy movie.

9. Don’t talk bad about somebody behind his/her back.

If you are a back fighter person who wants to downgrade others, then you don’t deserve to be respected.

10. Be special by loving other person with all your heart

You maybe a regular person with common life but if you have loved another with all your heart and mind, that could be enough to be really special at least to him or her. No memorial maybe put up for you when you’re gone but you will always have a monument dedicated to you in his/her heart. (© 2013 by Jensen DG. Mañebog)

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Jensen DG. Mañebog, the contributor, is a book author and professorial lecturer emeritus in the graduate school of a state university in Metro Manila. His unique e-books on Rizal (available online) comprehensively tackle, among others, the respective life of Rizal’s girlfriends, parents, siblings, and co-heroes. (e-mail: [email protected])

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