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
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updated July 06, 2005