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Silly things we teach our children.

"Wash your hands before you eat!" "Walk, don't run or you might hurt someone." Remember to say Please and Thank You!"

You all have heard these orders before, in fact; you might have even said them yourself. They all are the right things to be teaching our children. Hands should be washed before eating! We all know it. We make our children do it, yet how many of those same people forget to wash there hands? Many of them!

I love the order, "Walk, don't run!" as it most always comes from people that get hurried and speed down the road breaking the law. Then we have my all time favorite! Please and Thank You! I like this one most when shopping. Adults tell the children to say please and thank you to all the store employees, yet forget it themselves! 

It's easy for us to forget to thank people that are getting paid to assist us, yet they are as entitled to a thank you as anyone else. I noticed it last year at national conference. Our home office people pack up and leave there families behind to go to conference and work crazy hours. Early in the morning, long before we arrive at meetings the home office staff is hard at work. We get a break for lunch and come back to meetings and the home office staff has made a major change in the room. Late at night when we are out with friends or sleeping, the staff is hard at work! I have no idea how long these people work in a day, but I do know it is more than I would like to. [company] could hire out people to do many of the jobs that our home office staff does at conference, however; It would be much less personal. On the last day of conference, Dianne Baldridge brings all of them out on the stage. After telling us a little bit about each of them we applaud and send out one loud Thank You! I was so happy that Dianne does this. Last year you could tell these people were exhausted and beat! We should thank them as they are doing it all for us! Without them Dianne and [company] could not pull off many of the wonderful moments that we all talk about for weeks to come. 

I wonder how many of the home office people each of us have personally thanked each year? You see them everywhere you turn. Last year I stood in a long line waiting to check in. Over the noise of all the people I listened to what people were saying. Sad but true, It wasn't a lot of please and Thank You. I heard a lot of " I did this, and I did that!" "I want to speak with Dianne!" "Give me this and I want that" "Tell me what I need!" ME, ME, ME and I, I, I rang out over the room. The next day some of the things [company] people were saying to restaurant waiters made me want to take off my badge! You get my point, and I'm the first to admit that most of us are kind and polite. We need to keep in mind that we would never allow our children to speak unkind to hard working people in public SO we should not either! Think before we speak and love will win over all problems we face.

I don't need Dianne or anyone to remind me to be thankful and kind to our home office workers that give of themselves for us, I'm an adult and know better. However; as things get going and the air is hot, it is easy to start thinking about Me and me alone. This year I have thought up a way to make certain I am thankful to all of our Home office workers. I went out to a discount card shop and got packages of thank you cards. You know the ones, packs of 16 small cards. I am taking time to write a small note telling them I am thankful for all they are doing for us. When I see workers having a bad day or another consultant being unkind to them, I will pop out a thank you card and hand it to them. I want them to know that we are thankful for their hard work long before our Mom, Dianne, reminds us to! A hand written card will go back to there room with them as a reminder that we truly are thankful and make all the hard work even more rewarding. 

Will any of you join me this year in giving back to them with written words of thanks? Print out a little letter on your computer or take along a inexpensive pin, pen or a pencil for a little Thank You! Together we can give them a conference as memorable as the one they give us! 

If you can change one persons day to a better one, you have changed the world!

Thank You, Hank 

This page last updated July 06, 2005