(originally published June 2nd, 2005)<\/p>\n
I am a big time creature of habit. It would surprise no one who knows me well if I mentioned that once I decide I like a restaurant, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll go there often, and eat the same thing every time. Well, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s this Japanese restaurant that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve decided makes the best salmon teriyaki and beef negamaki in the area. I go at least once a week, and have done so for the last three weeks. Tonight, the waiter saw me, came over immediately, and asked if I were having what I usually do; I told him yes. He wrote it up, got it right, and I gave him a nice tip afterwards for it.<\/p>\n
How many of us remember the preferences of our clients, co-workers, subordinates, friends, family, etc? I have a friend who remembered many years later, when he got married and I was in his wedding, that my favorite baseball player was Roberto Clemente, and he gave me a collectible baseball card; I was greatly touched. I have one friend who always remembers my birthday and anniversary, and I remember the same for her as well.<\/p>\n
There are many things I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember, unfortunately. However, I replace what I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember with as much courtesy, respect, and honesty as I can muster. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s telling that the majority of my friends have been so for more than 10 years. I had someone say to me the other day, when I said in a meeting that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know something, that she had never met anyone honest enough to admit that they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know something in public, and she was impressed by that; of all things!<\/p>\n
All of us are continually making impressions of some sort on those we know and those we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it better to try to make positive impressions rather than negative ones, in hopes that the waiters and friends in our lives will hopefully remember what we like and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like, and maybe we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll remember those same types of things in return? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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