2. Laugh at Your Pride
Laughing at your pride does not mean you are going to wave off the diagnosis discovered in number 1 above, but it helps you not to practise self-condemnation – you will be doing yourself a lot of harm in an attempt to do well if you condemn yourself. Laughing at it brings some higher level of awareness of the situation and you can’t help it but to laugh all the way at your silly self. Doing this gives room for correction to be done in a healthy way, and it helps break the pride pattern faster.
Laughing at your pride will help you to forgive yourself and to become a better person faster. You become a new and probably a better person when you laugh at yourself – it improves and stimulate your state of being teachable.
3. Be Thankful
One great thing about proud people is that they feel indifferent to gratitude – nothing amuses them…they don’t take note of little or great things that deserve their vote of thanks because they have a too lofty view of themselves and everything.
Cultivating habits of gratitude will do more than breaking and solving your pride problem. There are some steps or decisions you will make in a part of your life that will affect other parts of your life – you might not know how this happen, but it always happen. You will successfully do away with pride if you successfully cultivate habits of gratitude, you start learning it when you register your appreciation to what is insignificant – that seems little. And it will change your perspective of your life.
It is generally believed that people with pride problem (selfish pride) are ungrateful. Break this pattern and you will be glad you do so.
