The truly loving man smiles and understands when his wife, children, or employees make a mistake. He realizes that making mistakes is one way of learning from experience.

Warning: Criticize important people in your life and you expose your ignorance about making and keeping positive and healthy relationships. Establish, instead, positive and healthy relationships by:

* leading way.

* setting positive examples. * listening closely to what they say and don't say.

* showing your spouse, children, friends, or employees your love for them.

Actions speak louder than words, they say. And your positive actions will show others that you truly care about them, not their mistakes. When your positive message is frequent and consistent, they will follow your lead.

Train yourself to see them not as people who make mistakes, but as totally whole images who are capable of so much more. Accept doer, not deed. After all, everyone makes mistakes and it is in making those mistakes that we tend to grow most.

Remember: When you maximize your potential, everyone wins. When you don't, we all lose.

The right sort of attitude seems to give us a unique control over our future. It helps us take a casual, more easygoing, calm, more serene attitude toward things and situations that put others in a nervous sweat. We can concentrate completely and take our work seriously and do it surprisingly well without, at same time, becoming a fanatic about it.

A person with a bleak, failure-oriented attitude cannot change to a winning attitude in a single day. But with conscious practice, it is astonishing how every aspect of our lives can be changed for better. Controlling our attitude is first step in maximizing our potential.

Maintaining a positive or negative attitude? The choice and consequences are yours.

Remember: When you maximize your potential, everyone wins. When you don't, we all lose.