Million Dollar Habits: 10 Simple Steps To Getting Everything You Want In Life by Robert Ringer

Author:Robert Ringer [Ringer, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: RobertRinger.com, Inc
Published: 2014-08-04T00:00:00+00:00

Graciousness

Few things pay greater dividends in the area of human relations than the habit of exercising graciousness. What's so hard to understand is that even though it's simple to be kind and cordial to others, we live in a very ungracious world.

This thought first struck me about thirty years ago when I sent personalized, initialed Lucite paperweights to about fifty business acquaintances as Christmas gifts. I hadn't given any conscious thought to the recipients responding to my relatively expensive gifts when I sent them out, but when one person did call to thank me, human nature set in. Because one person—and one person only—did take the trouble to thank me, it got me to thinking about the other forty-none who didn't. With a response like this, I began to wonder what the feedback might have been had I sent the same people live tarantulas. So, when the next Christmas rolled around ... just kidding.

Now, you might be thinking, "Well, your main reason for sending the gifts shouldn't have been to receive thanks from the people you sent them to." Aside and apart from the fact that, as I stated, I hadn't given any conscious thought to the recipients of my gifts responding in any way, what my motives may or may not have been completely misses the point. Regardless of my intent, the one individual who did take the trouble to thank me stood head and shoulders above the field.

Had that individual been selling insurance, or office furniture, or any other product or service for which I was in the market, can you imagine what an easy sale I would have been for him? That's the real lesson to be learned from this little story. The person who makes a habit of a simple action like displaying gratitude can't help but to reap benefits down the road, even if that isn't his main objective. Kind of like the invisible hand of the marketplace.

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