As I was reading last night, I came across a good reminder. It’s in the book “The Power Of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale. This passage is talking about how many people are self-centered, how they never reach out to or become truly interested in others.

May I remind you as I remind myself that one of the greatest tragedies of the average person is the tendency to spend our whole lives perfecting our faults? We develop a fault and we nurse it and cultivate it, and never change it. Like a needle caught in the groove of a defective record on a victrola, it plays the same old tune over and over again. You must lift the needle out of the groove, then you will have disharmony no longer, but harmony.

It’s easy to just stay the way we are. Rather, we fear that change is going to be hard, so we assume that it’s easier to just keep plugging along, treating people however we’ve always done it.

Some people spend their whole social lives doing little more than finding faults in other people. Whether they say them out loud or not, that animosity shows through. What would it hurt to try something a little different, to look for the positives in others or to care a little more about them?

Don’t spend more of your life perfecting faults in human relations. Spend the rest of your life perfecting your capabilities for friendliness, for personal relations are vitally important to successful living.

A little change in the way we interact with people can make a huge difference in our life.