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POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
Mr and Mrs Moody had been arguing all day and, as bedtime approached, neither was speaking to the other. It was not unusual for the pair to continue a war of silence for two or three days sometimes. However, on this occasion, Mr Moody was concerned.
He needed to be awake at 6 a.m. the next morning to catch an important business flight and, being a very heavy sleeper, he normally relied on Mrs Moody to wake him up. Cleverly, so he thought, when his wife was in the bathroom, he wrote on a piece of paper:
‘Please wake me at 6 a.m. as I have an important flight to catch’. Mr Moody put the note on his ...
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