Acceptance

Step one towards healing

Is acceptance

Acceptance that you are sick then you can work your way up towards healing

Step one towards success

Is acceptance

Acceptance that before you attain that success...

You will fail

Not once, but many times

But what counts is whether you will let failure

Break you or Make you

Step one towards forgiveness

Is acceptance

Acceptance that no human being is perfect

Mistakes are made but you make mistakes as well

Someone forgave your mistakes 

What gives you the right not to forgive the mistakes of others

Especially if they ask for your forgiveness?

Step one towards making a friend and keeping the friend

Is acceptance

Acceptance of the person as they are 

Not the impressions you conjure up in your mind of them

Step one towards gaining respect from others

Is acceptance

Acceptance that you first need to respect yourself

And that respect is a two way traffic

Step one towards getting the ideal guy

Is acceptance

Acceptance that you first need to be an ideal girl

And then you shall attract an ideal guy

Step one towards getting the ideal girl

Is acceptance

Acceptance that you first need to be an ideal guy

And then you shall attract an ideal girl

Step one towards getting along well with life

Is acceptance

Acceptance that there are things you cannot change

You can only deal with them as they are

Step one towards impacting change in society

Is acceptance

Acceptance that things are not always about you

But about others around you as well

Step one towards getting good at what you do

Is acceptance

Acceptance that continuous perfect practice makes perfect

And you need to make it part of your daily routine

Step one towards self healing

Is acceptance

Acceptance that the answers to your problems lie with you

No-one-else

Step one towards positive thinking

Is acceptance

Acceptance that all the negative thoughts are all in the mind

You can do exactly what you set your mind to do

So start thinking positive thoughts

All step ones towards accomplishing or doing something

Involve acceptance

Acceptance of the unwritten norms that precede the task

Acceptance that the commencement of the task as well as it's end

Shall start and end with you when you first 

Accept it.