Ways to Be More Humble and to Act Humbly

• Use the response “It’s My Pleasure” when someone thanks you for doing something.
• Use the response “I’d be honored” when someone asks you to help them or do something with them.
• Listen more than you talk
• Count to 3 before adding to a conversation to ensure the other person is done
• Be willing to follow another person in conversation even if you don’t get to talk about your idea
• Always offer to improve someone else’s idea and give them credit
• Give credit for other’s ideas that you are carrying through on
• Ask others for the opinion of others
• Ask others to join conversations and contribute
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• It’s OK to be wrong and so admit it
• Admit when you don’t understand or know something
• Appreciate others who learn something quickly and say so
• Be quick to apologize when you do something wrong
• Study moral principles
• Use moral principles to guide you
• You are God’s creation, not your own
• Recognize your talents as gifts, not your own ability
• Know how your skills have only be developed by the help of others
• Share your own knowledge to pass on what you have learned
• Pass on thanks when you receive it to those who helped you achieve what was thanked
• Value other people’s time as much as your own
• Never equate time spent with people to a dollar value
• Don’t boast about your achievements, let others recognize them instead
• Keep your goals to yourself
• Help other people with their goals
• Realize the potential in others
• Know that timing is everything and everyone excels at different times in life
• Being the 1st follower is often the best way to lead
• Since winning isn’t everything, you don’t have to win
• Recognize that you have faults
• Remember you are a sinner (in other words, you are no better or worse than anyone else)
• Ignore first impressions of people
• Give others the benefit of the doubt
• Provide positive and encouraging feedback instead of criticism
• Make a choice to act more humbly
• Practice at least one humble act each day
• Be grateful for successes without boasting about them
• Know how to accept praise with a simple thank you, don’t elaborate on it or talk more about it
• Recognize the individualism of others and yourself, there is no need to conform
• Share your core values and live them accordingly regardless of the circumstances
• Prioritize things in your life and rate your actions on whether to followed that priority or not
• Rate other people as first, be less significant
• Forgive those who wrong you and move on without revenge or lashing back
• Serve others and not yourself first
• Seek wisdom, which is knowledge of what is true coupled with just judgment of action
• Recognize and know that you know little and there is always more to learn
• Avoid explosive reactions, and subside any aggression
• Accept new ideas and change, not being stuck on what you knew before
• Teach all that you can for the benefit of others
• Learn from and model the life of the most humble teachers in history