Practice Makes Perfect

Practice being nice until being mean is repulsive.
Practice being patient until you are not bothered by waiting.
Practice acts of kindness until offering help is no longer a chore.
Practice charitable giving until it’s as natural as buying new toys.
Practice being honest until the smallest lie troubles your conscience.
Practice using kind words until vile and vulgar words have been purged from your vocabulary.
Practice being happy until you don’t know how to be any other way.
Practice appriciation of others until jealousy is as foreign as the Klingon language.
Practice love until bitterness has left you completely.
Practice laughter until you have experienced all of life’s joys.
Practice learning until education is a daily part of life.
Practice hard work until you lose interest in laziness.
Practice self-control until you are mastered by nothing.