How To Gain Respect From Your Friends

When did you gain respect for your friend and why?

I love challenges. I have someone inside me who I call my “Challenger Gorilla” who will show up once in a while, thumping it’s chest ready to do something crazy, smelling a new challenge the way Tom smells food from afar in the Tom and Jerry show. He(he is a he) is the reason why I have been a swimmer, hiker and a conqueror of a ton of other physically challenging feats even though I am chubby person.But that doesnt change the fact that I am what I am- chubby and while I am rarely the one to associate my body type with my self-confidence or beauty perceptions, I have had plenty around me who do that. I have sat in hour long conversations discussing “What’s wrong with my body” that led me to believe that most people are this way. No one likes themselves the way they are and we are always going to collectively crib about it. And we are going to do absolutely nothing about it.Until I met my friend, lets call him AK. This guy may have been various stages of imperfect at different times in his life but walks into my life with a bag of positive reinforcements and conversations that will uplift us all. At first I was borderline annoyed at his Ted-Talk-ish demeanor. It seemed to me that everything he proposed: making lifestyle changes, inculcating body positivity was easier said than done. AK was this marathon running friend of mine. It’s easier to be positive when you are that person. I thought this until one day he invited me out for 5k run while he was doing the half marathon in the same event. My challenger Gorilla roared and I said yes completely ignoring that fact that I have never run before in my life. I completed the run and felt a sort of high and after an hour of panting and then recovering from my 45 min ordeal of a run, I see AK making his way towards the finish line after a 2hr run, his mouth and face dry and body at the verge of exhaustion. He sat next to me and I saw his legs shake as he stretched.That’s when it hit me. This isn’t easy and he isn’t propogating anything that he isn’t doing himself. He is not just a man of words. He is a man of action and that’s the rarest kind of people. My respect for him grew ten folds that day. He would rather go out and do what he wants to change himself for the better than join a pity party. I’m glad I can call him my friend. :)

How do I gain respect from friends?

You first have to be so much full of love for your own self. And respect yourself so much that the presence of others does not bother you.Demanding respect from others around is also like begging. It is not graceful. Rather, than going to the wrong doors, try being in your own “being” or “heart” and just be yourselves. Those who do not respect you that means, they don’t feel connected with you. They don’t love you (as a friend), they are not happy in your presence. Because when we connect with people, respect and loving attitude automatically comes. Yes we do get angry and frustrated but that is temporary. When we connect with people and feel happy in their presence, it is a relationship that we thrive to continue for a longer period. But if they are not happy and joyous in your presence, then you should cut them off out of your life. Spend your time in being with yourselves. Meditate, Read, Try new avenues, may be go for a new type of class (new language learning or musical instrument learning, or any other thing of your liking).For people to like each other, to be friends with each other, they need to have a great respect with the other’s individuality, even when there are differences between the 2 people.At new place you may gain new friends who are like-minded and who can see you as a person who contributes to their joy.But the best that I could recommend is, being so filled with our own love and being busy with our own self, cuts all such things/desires off. And when we are thrown back to ourselves, the things that we like to do, we are creative, we are total and we are complete while doing so. That makes us so graceful that people start finding us interesting person.When we are empty from inside, when we are not creative, when we only hanker people’s presences, its actually begging for others presence because we can not digest our own presence. And then we are no more graceful. We are no more complete. Our creativity makes us complete, our liking, our totality in doing things makes us complete. And that makes us graceful.So instead of asking for love and respect from friends and others, start finding ways of being more respectful to your own self, graceful in your own self. That will automatically get people respecting you.Hope this helps.

How can a husband gain respect from his spouse’s family and friends?

Respect has to be earned. Think of It like currency, wages for hard work. It is something that has to be continuously and carefully cultivated. The things you have to do to earn respect from others will vary from person to person. In general, you need to make your spouse, their loved one, feel loved, appreciated, and secure. It has to be genuine. They will know if you're faking it, if your spouse is acting or hiding the reality of your marriage. In the beginning, earning respect can be easy. But if you lose the respect you've built up, you may never fully earn it back. So just be a decent person. Don't do anything you will feel like you need to hide.

How do you gain respect from peers?

The quickest and most simple answer to this question is to respect yourself!People treat us the way we allow them to treat us. What is the best way to let others know how we expect to be treated? By treating ourselves with the same respect we expect from others. This might sound a little confusing, but it is true. The more you treat yourself with love and respect, the more others will follow your lead.Reasons as to why people may be disrespectful may vary. They may lack confidence in certain areas of their lives and feed off of our insecurities in attempt to make themselves feel more powerful. Maybe we interpret their actions as disrespectful but they do not intend for them to be that way. Or, maybe personalities just don’t align and they do not know how to express themselves appropriately.We cannot take how others treat us personally as their actions speak more about themselves than they do about us.We can, however, identify what it means to be respected and set our standards as such. We also need to give respect in order to receive it. It works both ways.I hope this helps!For a complimentary 30 minute coaching session, message me saying, “Free Session.” Continue to inspire yourself so you can go out and inspire others.Sonya, Inspire yourself. Inspire others.

How do I check if my friends really respects me?

Respect is a feeling of admiration for skills possessed by a person.If you want to check if your friends respect you, first ask yourself what do you want to be respected for. Do you want to be respected for a specific skill set? Or for your opinions on various aspects? Or just everything?If you want to truly check if your friends respect you, decline a few offers by them to hang out or do something together. Have a good reason for it, not a frivolous one. If they appreciate it and don't pester you or start saying things like "Oh, you really think you're that important, eh?", they respect you.If not, here are some ways in which you can gain respect of your friends, peers and everyone in the world:21 Ways You Can Earn The Respect Of OthersAll the best, dear Anonymous. Hope you figure your answers out soon.

How do I earn my respect from friends and family?

Be yourself and be kind and humorous. That would be enough. What goes around, comes around. So be patient and give them time to make you their friend.When they try to provoke you over anything, just keep calm, crack a joke and change the situation. Never loose your cool. This makes them to think how cool you are, you are nice and always gave them respect.You keep their respect and they will keep yours. Simple. You need not join any competition to prove yourself to someone. Follow your fantasies and excel in that thing which you are best at. Focus more on yourself and this will prove your abilities more than any competition. Do things to make yourself happy, never try to please people coz you can please all and you will end up upset.Focus on ur skills and talents, work towards excelling in them. Once you achieve something big or get success in big time, then you need not beg anyone's respect. People will automatically respect you.Never try to act to earn friends or respect, coz you can't act too longa Bad at a point you fail acting and people will disrespect more for what all you did. Instead be yourself, keep a cool attitude and maintain some humor in talks, then you won't have any difficulties.Keeping calm never means you can't do anything or react. People might say that why do you have to be a looser and not react. But still be calm.May be reading some books help you. But life is a book that is going to be published tomorrow. Everyday is a new experience and every person is a mystery. So you need to deal with people.It's time for you to decide if your book should have more pages to make you laugh or to make you frustrated. Good luck!!!

How do I gain respect in school?

I graduated in 2011, and although my knowledge is not as fresh, everything I did to gain respect back then I still do today has earned me strong friendships and healthy relationships.Be true to your word. If you say you are gonna do something, do it. If you say you are gonna be at a certain place at a given time, be there. If you borrow something even as small as a pencil, return it. A lot of people gradually lost my respect because they didn’t keep their word, and I’ve earned people’s respect because I knew how to keep mine.No gossiping. Although it’s something I still do, I never gossip on my friends back nor talk ill of them, on the contrary, I always have their back and although I enjoy listenning to gossip, I avoid speaking ill of the rest as much as I can.Be nice and be respectful. It’s not just a rule of Quora. Be nice to the shy dude, be kind to the small children, be respectful to professors and your peers. The shy dude will be thankful and you will likely earn their respect by giving it. The small children will remember the friendly guys from the assholes just like us do, if you have their back they will have yours some day, we all grow older and the memory on the good and bad people is not faint. Professors can mean the difference between a warning or getting expeled, building a good reputation is a matter of consistency, and if you ever get into trouble it’s your peers the ones who will vouch for you if you were good to them, or throw you under the bus if you were a bully, been there done that.One last thing that made the difference for me was having some kind of clarity about what’s important to me. I remember being bullied, and so did my friends. One thing that made me stand out was that although I was too scared to defend myself, I never backed up from defending my friends even when I was outnumbered and I never ratted out who I was throwing punches for because they would have it 10 times worse than I was earned me the respect of my friends and bullies learned to not mess with me or my friends. Today I can say that putting the wellbeing of the people I care about almost at the same level (sometimes even at the cost) of my own wellbeing had a good effect on the respect that people have on me.

How did you earn the respect and admiration of your friends and peers?

I earned the respect and admiration of my peers and friends by being decent and kind to them. I treat them with respect. I let them know when they do something that is good,and , also if I took offense to something said or done. This can be done with a good attitude. Simply state the truth. It helps to make them feel less defensive if you use this type of opener. “I feel ….. then let them know in a nice way how it made you feel. This way you aren’t making them feel like they have to defend themselves, because , You are owning Your feelings.