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  • An Ingenious Way of Getting People to Engage in Kind Behavior – by Ross Reck

    An Ingenious Way of Getting People to Engage in Kind Behavior – by Ross Reck

    Small Coffee Sign

    I saw this sign posted on Facebook last week and thought, “What an ingenious way of convincing people to engage in kind behavior.”  

    The sign tells customers that the deli is willing to tolerate unkind behavior, but it would be at a cost to the person engaging in that behavior. In other words, “If you make our day instead of making us miserable, we’ll make it worth your while.” According to the copy above the sign, this message had an immediate impact on customers’ behavior. There must be other nonthreatening ways that we can communicate to people that it’s in their best interest to engage in kind behavior. If any examples come to mind, please share them with me. Thank you.

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  • Be the Change You Want to See in the World by Ross Reck

    Be the Change You Want to See in the World by Ross Reck

    Change

    If we want the world to be a better place, it’s up to us to set the example. We need to live our lives in such a manner that when others think of kindness, caring, fairness and integrity, they think of us. This begins with things that are simple and easy to do like: returning your shopping cart. Picking up a piece of trash that someone else left. Holding the door for someone behind you. Letting someone into your lane. Smiling at everyone including strangers. Paying someone a compliment. Listening when someone needs to talk. Tipping your server. Pushing your chair back when you get up from a table. Making sure your trash winds up in a trash receptacle. And if you smoke, make sure you put cigarette butts in an ash tray instead of throwing them out the car window. Each of these behaviors has a ripple effect which means that when people see you doing them, they will tend to copy you. This is how we make the world a better place. We have to be the change that we want to see!

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  • Mentor

    Verse by Art Fettig – Copyright© 1987

    Mentor

    Mentors are people who truly love
    what they are doing,
    and want to share that love and skill
    with someone they believe might do it.
    Mentors don’t do it for you –
    they point the way and stand back
    and watch you stumble and grow.
    They know that life is really
    a “Do-it-Yourself” project
    and difficult things come easy,
    often unappreciated, prove useless.
    Mentees, nearly always, at times feel
    their Mentor is holding back –
    and it is true and necessary,
    for craftsmanship demands a vast amount
    of try and fail.
    Mentors quietly care, and they
    silently cheer you on,
    and every little challenge that you overcome
    burns joyfully within their hearts.
    Mentors give unselfishly, most likely
    because once, in their past,
    they knew a Mentor who shared,
    and cared and silently cheered them on.
    For this is a continuous,
    self-perpetuating process.
    Mentees grow, and when they’ve reached
    a level of success,
    they then become a Mentor.
    For love goes on and on
    and therein lies the magic.

  • The Best Verse of Art Fettig, C.S.P.

    The Best Verse of Art Fettig
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    ©1987 Art Fettig, C.S.P.

    • The Spirit

      A Verse by Art Fettig – Copyright © 1987 Art Fettig

      The Spirit by Art Fettig

      Of 1776, what was the spirit?
      Revolution? Freedom? Independence?
      No. I think the prevailing spirit
      Was selling.
      Selling one another. Selling like selling
      Had never been done before. Or since.
      Salesmen saying, “But as for me,
      Give me liberty or give me death.”
      Saying, “I only regret that I have but one life
      To give for my country.”
      Saying, “Let us all hang together,
      Or assuredly we will hang alone. “
      And signing, “We mutually pledge to each other
      Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. ”
      Selling the world an exciting concept; that men,
      And women, could rule their own destiny.
      And what is wrong with America today
      Will be made right again with selling.
      Selling the dedication and devotion and
      That mutual concern that made it all begin.