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82 : Universal Goodness 4) One will be able to continue accumulating more and more merit. If one is too busily congratulating oneself for one's success without acknowledging the contribution of others, one will be hard pressed to receive help in future endeavors. If one makes it a habit to rectify one's offence by making an immediate apology, one can sleep well at night. Work should not be the only thing that one makes time for, since one's time needs to be made for four important activities in one's daily life as described earlier. An unpunctual person lacks time management skills. He is late in delivering his finished work. He is afraid to face his boss. He is reluctant to admit that he is wrong. He has ready excuses for his tardiness. What are these excuses? Excuses are usually in the forms of lies or seven parts truth and three parts falsehood. The more excuses one makes, the more lies one tells. Each time one lies to someone, one must lie to one's self three times because. 1) One must first plan about what falsehood to tell; 2) One tells someone the lie that one has planned to tell; 3) One must memorize what one lies about so that one will not get caught lying, in some cases for as long as a year and in other cases for the rest of one's life.