• go for a morning run with good friends
• make sure all your friends get home safely from holiday parties
• have "real" conversations with family and friends
• let friends surprise you
• show an interest in your child's friends
• spend today bringing happiness to your friends and family
• encourage your mate to take time out with friends
• don't take your friends for granted
• always patch things up with friends
• make banana splits for your child and your child's friends
• don't call your friends to recount every day's mundane minutiae
• be loyal to your friends
• have a home where friends can easily congregate
• make friends with animals you meet on your walks
• find good friends
• compliment your mate in front of your children, parents, and friends
• solicit feedback from friends, relations, and colleagues
• help old friends grow old
• send travel postcards to friends
• don't criticize family or friends
• try to make friends everywhere you go
• let friends help
• create and maintain a personal support system of friends
• be friends with good-natured people
• give a small dinner party to celebrate friends
• invite friends over on a regular basis
• call your friends, even if it's not your "turn"
• clear your life of flaky friends
• share holidays with your best friends
• go caroling with friends
• invite friends to share a celebration
• help your child produce a "Me" book with photos, friends, hobbies, etc.
• get to know your children's friends
• invite friends to sample a new recipe
• welcome friends who drop in
• like all of your mate's friends
• select an inspirational book to always have on hand to give to friends
• enrich your time with friends by being attentive, open, loving
• have friends who work as hard as you do
• make sure your friends know you accept them as they are
• visit friends when they are in the hospital
• meet your friends after work
• seek out friends or professional help when you feel unable to cope
• when friends offer to help, let them
• paint recipe cards with watercolors as gifts for friends
• on a rainy evening, write long letters or e-mails to old friends
• have a home that your children's friends love to visit
• get involved with people outside your usual circle of friends
• invest free time in your partner, children, friends
• cultivate a diverse group of friends
• have fun with friends or family at least once a week
• n give thanks for your friends
• stay in contact with family and friends
• make friends with an elderly neighbor
• make friends with the police
• send an engagement card to newly affianced friends
• be friends with your sister or brother
• don't be critical of your loved ones' friends
• give yourself time with friends, doing what you want to do
• have faith - in yourself, your family, your friends, the world
• take Christmas cookies to friends
• cherish your friends