Random advice on how to be a better person.

Yes, I know, I know, I need to take this advice myself... but anyways, here it is....



Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
1. Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain.
2. Give honest and sincere appreciation.
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.











Six Ways to Make People Like You
1. Become genuinely interested in other people.
2. Smile.
3. Remember that a person's name to that person is the sweetest and most important sound in the English language.
4. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
5. Talk in terms of the other person's interest.
6. Make other people feel important-- and do it sincerely.



How to Win People to Your Way of Thinking
1. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
2. Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, “You’re wrong”.
3. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
4. Begin in a friendly way.
5. Get people saying, "Yes, yes" immediately.
6. Let other people do a great deal of the talking.
7. Let other people feel that the idea is his and hers.
8. Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.
9. Be sympathetic with other person's ideas and desires.
10. Appeal to the nobler motives.
11. Dramatize your ideas.
12. Throw down a challenge.

How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment
1. Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
2. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.
3. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
4. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
5. Let the other person save face.
6. Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement.
7. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
8. Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
9. Make other people happy about doing the thing you suggest.

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To blog or not to blog? That IS the question...

As defined by http://www.urbandictionary.com/ a blog is: a place where people bitch about their daily activities which nobody is interested in. topics like why they argue with boyfriend and how they end up together at last, daily aneroxic activities like drinking blended organic fruits and vegetable for breakfast, lunch and dinner, talking about cutting themselves with a razor blade and how good they felt, bitch about their shopping activities and what they got.




















My intent is to intersperse that exact type of above described self absorbtion with slightly more meaty and meaningful offerings, including but not limited to: plugging my wife's luggage accessory business http://www.funluggage.com/ incessantly, ranting about various hot button political issues such as abortion, gun control (or lack thereof), regulation of industries ranging from agriculture to banking, debating the pros and cons of various religions, and debating what is truly "good" for the planet. I may aslo thow in an occasional dash of eastern mysticism sprinkled with just a hint of commercialism.



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Anyways, as it is Christmas, or Kwanzaa eve depending upon your preferences, (sorry the eight day festival of light Chanukah is over) I will take it easy for a change and begin blogging in earnest in the near future. Bet on it.