Chapter 45

Charity, Community, and Your Colleagues: Giving Back Is Good Karma

Dale Carnegie, author of How to Win Friends & Influence People, had posted the following over his bathroom mirror as a daily affirmation and perspective to act from:

I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Robert Fulghum, author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, outlines these seemingly simple rules that really apply to all of society (or should):

  1. Share everything.
  2. Play fair.
  3. Don’t hit people.
  4. Put things back where you found them.
  5. Clean up your own mess.
  6. Don’t take things that aren’t ...

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