What you're looking at here are good old fashioned "Thank You" cards, and yes, I'm talking about
the kind where you take a little ink pen and you write a note, you put a stamp on
it and you send it out in the mail. When is the last time you got a thank you note in
the mail, you probably still have it, am I right?
You know, Thank You notes are processed differently than all other types of mail, we get the junk
mail, in the mail with the catalogues, and the advertisements, and the flyers, and bills
and yat, dat, dat, dat, da, da Yet when some somebody actually stops and
sends us a thank you note, we hang on to it. We're like: "Wow, someone appreciates me,
and they noticed." And we tape these up on our refrigerator, we hang them up on the mantle
and we pin them up in the cubicle at work. We want people to know that we are appreciated.
Because being appreciated is something that every person needs.
Yet we don't say "thank you" enough. Being grateful, and having an attitude of
gratitude is a value that will never go out of style. It will NEVER go out of style and
you can never say "thank you" too much. Now I have this little coupon holder that
I keep all of my blank thank you cards in, I bought this coupon holder at the dollar store.
These cards I bought in the card section at
Walmart or Target or Albertsons or Publix or wherever you shop. (They come in packs
of 8, 10, 12, 20) They sell these little thank you notes and
there's a variety of different types of thank you notes for a variety of different types
of people and different kinds of things they might have done for you. But get in the habit
of writing thank you notes. It only takes a couple minutes a day.
It really only takes a couple of minutes a day. But it goes so far. People will hang
on to these for two and three and five and ten years, when a quick email or text gets
deleted. Get in the habit of writing thank you cards. It makes you feel good, it makes
the person you send the card to feel good, and it's a good idea.
It's a good idea.