How to be Generous?

Generous (Meaning): giving, big-hearted

Generous (Synonym): acceptable, altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, big, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, considerate, easy, equitable, excellent, fair, free, good, greathearted, helpful, high-minded, honest, honorable, hospitable, just, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lavish, liberal, lofty, loose, magnanimous, moderate, munificent, noble, open-handed, philanthropic, prodigal, profuse, reasonable, soft-touch, thoughtful, tolerant, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinting, willing

Generous (Antonyms): greedy, mean, miserly, selfish, stingy

How to be Generous?

• Speak to people, there is nothing as nice as a cheerful word of greeting.

• Smile at people, it takes 72 muscles to frown … only 16 to smile

• Call people by name; the sweetest music to anybody’s ear is the sound of their own name.

• Be sincerely cordial; speak and act as it were a genuine pleasure.

• Be considerate of the feelings of others.

• Be thoughtful of the opinion of others; there are three sides to controversy-your’s the other man’s and the right side.

• Be genuinely interested in people; you can like everybody if you try.

• Be generous with praise. Praise uplifts, criticism lowers.

• Be alert to render service; above all, what counts in life is what we do for others.

• Be fair in your criticism; remember your opinion is personal with you and it may be always correct.