PETE’S PERSON POINTERS FOR PROSPERITY
Here are some 56 Golden Rules to live by, that I’m sure will upset some people. Follow them and you won’t go too far wrong in life.
Here are the first 15
1. People who work in the service industry serving – Acknowledge your customer or client when they come to see you. Even if you’re on the phone or with someone else – let them know you know they’re there with a smile, eye contact or small wave
2. Remember to always have excellent table manners. That means eating with your mouth closed, Knife and fork, or spoon resting on your plate, not waving or pointed up in the air when not in use. Ask to be given something, don’t reach across the table.
3. Say please and thank you at every opportunity
4. If you’re a smoker be courteous to others. Your exhaled smoke affects others clothes, their atmosphere and experiences when they’re eating or in the same room as you. If someone spat on a table beside where you’re sitting – would you be offended and think its gross?Be considerate when you drop your butts. The world is awash with discarded cigarette butts in public places, beaches, and sidewalks. What would you do if someone just dropped their rubbish on your front lawn as they walked past.
5. Acknowledge someone when they do well.
6. Write a handwritten note or card to someone for any reason, but especially to thank them or say sorry
7. If you’re a man walk in the outside of a woman as you walk down the street.
8. Respect your elders and those in authority over you. You may not like them but respect their age or position.
9. Treat everyone you come in to contact with, with respect.
Remember:
‘To be humble to superiors is duty;
to equals, courtesy;
to inferiors, nobility.’
It’s not big deeds, but small acts of kindness that make us great
10. Say hello to someone when they walk past you, and smile.
11. Listen to everyone’s ideas. We all contribute in some form.
12. Listen fully before you speak. 80% of the message is normally in the last 20% of what someone says.
13. Open, and hold open a door if someone is in front of you or coming behind you
14. Be aware of your surroundings. Don’t suddenly stop walking and expect everyone to walk around you. Be aware of what is behind you – especially if you’re driving
15. Don’t speak loudly on your cellphone in public so everyone hears your conversation – tone it down. We don’t want to hear, or know of the personal issues you’re discussing. The privacy act was introduced for a reason!
