Today I am giving a speech at the celebration honoring 11 high school seniors who are receiving the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizenship Award. It is one I received thirty years ago, and a long time family friend asked me if I would be willing to come back and help them honor these young leaders. It was an easy YES.
I need your help. If you have a Twitter account, please post a comment today saying thank you to someone in your life that is deserving of a heartfelt thank you, and then use the hashtag #nicematters.
Here is the why behind that request. I am sharing three tips with them:
- Learn to say NO
- Face to Face: Show your best YOU
- Store Gratitude (keep a #nicematters file with notes you receive from others)
At the end of my talk, they will get a thank you card with #nicematters on it, and I will ask them to practice gratitude with someone by sending them a note in the next 24 hours. I will also ask them to tweet a thank you to someone, and attached the hashtag #nicematters to it. When they look, I would love them to see a bunch of other messages from different people with the same hashtag. I need your help to make a point with these 11 future leaders.
For me this is one of my Google-Time activities. When I started my business four years ago, I made a pledge that I would spend 10% of my time saying YES to certain things because they were fun. Today is one of those days. The request cane from a friend who has known me since I was born, and my kids, my Mother, my Father, and my Aunt Ginny will be coming.
Thank you for helping the message of gratitude get passed today!