Abstain from destructive or addictive habits
Drugs, gambling and pornography will adversely affect the quality of most relationships and the quality of your life. Avoid them like the plague.

Good Health Helps You Be Happier!
People who are healthy and in shape are much happier than those who are not.
They also have more energy to live each day to the fullest. Taking good care of your body will not only help you live longer, but you can start each day feeling better, both physically and emotionally, and have the energy to charge into today's new adventure.

Financial Independence and Stability
Another important characteristic of a quality individual is the ability to provide a decent home and lifestyle for himself and his immediate family. Individuals with vocation, technical or college education typically make twice as much as other workers. That is about $15.00/hour versus minimum wage of about $7.50/hour. This is reinforced by having a savings account, avoiding debt burdens and living within their means.

2. Quality People Frequent Quality Settings

If you spend all of your free time home by yourself you will not meet anyone.

Therefore, get out and live life. Be yourself and do things that you find fun and entertaining. As you frequent your favorite settings, focus first on enjoying your adventure there and worry less about who you will meet. If you are having a good time, you will naturally attract quality people to you.

Here are a few suggestions of quality settings:

#1 - Hobbies and Special Interest
What? You don't have any hobbies or special interests? That may be wide you (and others) find your life to be boring. Consider participation with trade and support groups related to your vocation, employment, school or church. Volunteer to support charitable ventures where your efforts will help the quality of life of someone less fortunate than yourself.

#2 - Hobbies and Special Interest
The other extreme is individuals who are overly addicted to their hobby to the point that it is harmful to their relationship with others in the group or in their family.

3. Quality People Have Lots of Quality Friends

Expand your circle of friends and relationships

In whatever social setting you find yourself make new friends. At school, work, church, the store or club - say hello to everyone that crosses your path. Find and welcome all newcomers. Throw out a question that will solicit a response from the other. Find a reason to compliment others for a job well done.

The ability to initiate an interesting conversation is a great quality that will naturally attract people to you.

Conversation Icebreakers
The following ideas will work in most settings. In general show interest in the welfare and activities of the other person. After the first question, ask related follow-up questions and you will have half of a conversation going already.

Bonus Tip - More Great Social Settings

To Meet People You Need to Frequent Social Settings

The following is a list of positive social environments that are different but practical.

The County Fair
Look for big crowd events that come to your community - the county fair, town festival, concert, sports event or even the local amusement park. Go to the event by yourself or with a pal and look for other people who are present without a date. Use our Search Engine to find special events coming soon to your area.

Race Day
Look for 5K and 10K races that are sponsored by the community on some weekend mornings. 10K means a ten kilometer foot race (about 6.2 miles) around a popular local landmark. There are a lot of physically fit people present and you might get some exercise yourself. You can either run or walk all or part of the distance. They also need volunteers at the refreshment stand or finish line. A similar idea is to frequent a gym - but race day attracts a much larger crowd. Physical fitness is a quality that will naturally attract people to you.

Part Time Job
Get a job that runs only one day a week in a retail environment such as the evening shift at the grocery store, stadium concession stand, weekend shift at a restaurant or a temp job for a seasonal event.

Additional Resources

The Road Less Traveled - M Scott Peck
25th Anniversary Edition : A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth.
By melding love, science, and religion into a primer on personal growth, M. Scott Peck launched his highly successful writing and lecturing career with this book. Even to this day, Peck remains at the forefront of spiritual psychology as a result of The Road Less Traveled. In the era of I'm OK, You're OK, Peck was courageous enough to suggest that "life is difficult" and personal growth is a "complex, arduous and lifelong task." His willingness to expose his own life stories as well as to share the intimate stories of his anonymous therapy clients creates a compelling and heartfelt narrative.

Further Along The Road Less Traveled - M Scott Peck
The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth
This sequel to The Road Less Traveled ( LJ 9/15/78), composed from lectures that best-selling author and psychiatrist Peck has given since his last success, presents spiritual as well as psychological aspects of adult maturation. He explores growing up into forgiveness rather than blame; finding meaning in death; developing genuine self-esteem while dealing with problems of omnipotence, good and evil, and heroism; coping with addictions, which Peck terms the sacred disease.

Body For Life : By Bill Phillips
12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength. - Bill Phillips had been publishing bodybuilding magazines and marketing nutritional supplements for years when he had a weird revelation at a trade show: many of the most loyal and enthusiastic readers he had were totally out of shape. The three-times-a-week weightlifting program in Body for Life is deceptively simple. Phillips arranges all this into a 12-week program, along with nutritional and motivational tips.

Eating for Life : By Bill Phillips
Your Guide to Great Health, Fat Loss and Increased Energy! - Bill Phillips, 38, has helped hundreds of thousands of people, from all walks of life, build leaner, stronger bodies and enjoy healthier, happier lives. His Program for renewing physical and mental strength is shared in the #1 New York Times bestselling book Body-for-LIFE. With more than four million copies sold and over four years on the bestseller list, Body-for-LIFE has become the most popular and successful book of its kind.

Provident Living - Physical Health Resources
Website sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is packed with hundreds of online resourse hotlinks (free to the online public) that promote health education, nutrition, exercise, medical care, disease prevention, longevity, maternal care and infant care and many more.