The best way to ditch the seven deadlies is to replace them with the seven caring habits: supporting, encouraging, listening, accepting, trusting, respecting, and negotiating differences.

They sound simple, right? All you have to do is accept people for who they are, listen to them, respect them, trust them, encourage and support them, and negotiate any differences you may have. But, like most of what’s worthwhile in life, the caring habits are a little harder to put into place than you might think, especially if they represent an about-face for you.

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How do I balance those "wants" between mine and others’? When you compromise your "I want" for satisfying others, you might not be happy all the time. It’s a matter of attitude. If you hold the positive one that this does good to both you and others, you see the "want" as a simple desire. You don’t take it seriously and get mad about it.