My Modesty List

- Speak as little as possible about yourself

Start listening more, you might learn something

- Keep busy with your Own affairs and Not those of others

Focus on what's important to you, because no one else will

- avoid curiosity

If it has no barring to you

- do not interfere with the affairs of others

After all, you wouldn't want anyone interjecting into yours

- Accept small irritations with good Humor

No need to deal in extremes when dealing with everyday pettiness

- Do Not Dwell on the faults of Others

For Our faults might even be worse

- Accept censures even if unmerited

Adaptation is the essential skill to survival

- learn to work with others

Otherwise this world will learn to work without you

- accept all obstacles and challenges as the learning process of life

- accept the possibility of being insulted, injured, slighted, forgotten or disliked

Trying to please everyone will drive you mad

- Be courteous and delicate even under provocation

Patience is the tool that prevails

- Do Not seek to be loved or admired

Trust and respect mean much more

- do not protect yourself behind your dignity

Our Ego often betrays us

- give in, In Discussions, even when you are right

Reason, in time, wins out

- choose, always the more difficult task

The Rewards far will exceed those from a simplier path

List by Mother Teresa and yours truly