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If you want a better job, and to earn more money, then having a positive attitude towards the place you work, towards your boss, towards colleagues and towards clients or customers, helps immensely. People who have a positive, helpful attitude stand out in any situation. You can never succeed in an organization that you do not want to succeed, because you will not give of your best. If you do not give of your best by doing the best job you can, then you will not receive the best that can come to you. Forgiveness will help you have the kind of attitude which will make you very successful at your job. Learning to forgive yourself is vitally important too. Hurting yourself, by refusing to forgive yourself, hurts others also. If you do not forgive yourself, then you will punish yourself by denying yourself the good things in life. The more you deny yourself the less you have to give. The less you have to give, the less you can benefit those around you. When you stop limiting what you receive, then you stop limiting what you can give. Everyone benefits when you forgive yourself as you then allow more good things into your life, and have a lot more to share. When you forgive, you become a better husband or wife; you become a better student or teacher; you become a better employer or employee, and you become a better parent or child. When you forgive, you are more open to success in whatever ways are meaningful to you. As you learn to forgive, what seemed impossible, not only becomes possible, but can even become easily achievable. If you are a religious or spiritually minded person, then learning practical ways to forgive will enhance and deepen your experience of your religion, or your spiritual practice. It will help to free you from guilt about not being as "good" as you feel you should be, because it will help you become the type of forgiving person you would like to be. Practicing Forgiveness strengthens the goodness within you so that it becomes more active in your life. You will naturally feel less inclined to do the things you know you should not do, but have not been able to stop yourself from doing. You will start to do more of the things you know you ought to do, but have not been able to get yourself to do. Learning to forgive can only help you; it cannot hurt you. Forgiveness is immensely practical and helpful. There is nothing vague, or impractical about it. Forgiveness sets you free. As you learn to forgive, many problems (possibly even health problems) will gradually disappear. It will be as if you can view your life from above and can see the easiest way to get to where you want to be. Life will open up in front of you. New opportunities will emerge as if from nowhere. Happy coincidences will occur where you meet just the right person at just the right time. Ideas or answers will come to you just as you need them. A friend may make a comment, or you flip open a book or a magazine; or you may overhear a conversation that gives you just what you were looking for. Why is this so? It is because by practicing Forgiveness, you become more open to the goodness of life, so that goodness is more able to find its way to you. As you learn to forgive, abilities that have been dormant within you will emerge, and you will discover yourself to be a much stronger and more capable person than you previously imagined. Parts of yourself, which could not thrive in the frigid and frozen soil of unforgiveness, will start to grow. You will begin to let go of struggling and striving. You will find more of an easy flow, and life will be a lot more pleasant and a lot more enjoyable. If this all sounds like exaggeration, then let that be for now. Simply practice the Four Steps to Forgiveness that you will find within these pages, and you will be very glad that you did