Comments on: Why Michael and MaryEllen teamed up

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:09:47 +0000

Every person is a valuable person. I learned this lesson once when I saw what I thought was a poor man buying a can of soup and a small package of potato chips at a grocery store. My dad stopped what he was doing and had a wonderful conversation with this very humble and very quiet man. I then asked Dad to buy this man a cart full of groceries because the man appeared to be very poor. My dad’s eyes got large and explained that this man was one of the richest men in Texas and could buy 5 grocery chains if he wanted to. He was just out get out of the house for a minute.

I also have a friend who drives a 12 year old dented minivan, dresses very plainly and keeps her own house because she gets so much pleasure from having her very own home…since she grew up in mansions here in America and in Europe. Her father was a colleague of a very famous scientist and worldwide humanitarian. She has had tea with the Queen of England, movie and stage stars for friends but she picks up and takes her clothes to the cleaners and rakes the leaves from her own yard.

So I’ve learned to always find something redeeming in everyone because if they may not be a customer or employee now, they will always remember a kindness later.

By: Remi

Remi — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:21:10 +0000

Helped me lot… thanks for such a informative article

By: Norman

Norman — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:02:18 +0000

I would like to say for whatever it is worth; and that maybe not much in this business.
But for what I read here in the excerpt,I will most definetly buy this book and put it to work for me.
I am getting to the retirement age,I’m projecting 2010 and I want all I can get and then some for myself and my family in retirement.
I Know it’s not going to be easy and living on a fixed income is not going to be easy either.Cause you will never be able to make the bucks like you did in your younger years.

By: Paul Tollison

Paul Tollison — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:46:21 +0000

I have always simply did my very best at any job I have been given. Even though my enterprises were always successful, I think that I missed this great human relations tactic. I expected my employees to be just like me. They weren’t!!!
I believe this way of treating employees would have made my businesses that much more successful.
I won’t make that mistake again!
I always tried to give each of my customers a little more than he had bargained for. I will be sure my customers also have that respect, too!!!
Paul Tollison
Paul’s Pistols
Tacoma, WA

By: Ed Garrison

Ed Garrison — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:38:10 +0000

First of all…if you don’t have respect for yourself…then you won’t have respect for anyone else. And “respect” for someone should not be based primarily on his or her material gain.

Think about it…”Love thy neighbor as thyself”. If you don’t love yourself in a healthy, wholesome way, how can you really love anyone else?

I’ve been around a long time and made a hell of a lot of mistakes. I think now…I’m “starting to get it”. I’m finally realizing, that in the context of the universe and spirituality, that my ignorance is pretty much infinite!

Enough rambling…I think respect is about:

1. Treating others the way you’d like to be treated.

2. Treating where you work like it was your own business.

3. Leaving everywhere you go a little bit better than you found it.

That’s my definition of respect and I’m sticking to it!

By: Melody Wasylciw

Melody Wasylciw — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:38:58 +0000

I agree! It is a real treat to read a newsletter with such fantastic content. I am truly enjoying Early to Rise.

By: Dr. Bill Stillwell

Dr. Bill Stillwell — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:18:03 +0000

You are absolutely correct. In my experience, those who don’t treat others with respect do so because they have the mistaken idea that they need to put other people down, in order to make themselves feel more powerful. It begins with self respect. A person who has real self respect will tend to treat everyone else with respect.
After all, prince or pauper, CEO or janitor, everyone has something to teach you–either lessons you want to embrace, or those you wish to avoid. How someone treats a subordinate says a great deal about their character, and whether or not they deserve MY respect.

By: Debbie Niehaus

Debbie Niehaus — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:46:52 +0000

Lack of respect is the main reason I left my last job of 7 years. I worked hard and even worked off the clock to see that everything ran smoothly. Then my bosses hired someone that took advantage of a difficult period in my life (death of a sister, menopause) to turn my bosses against me. I did love to work there, even though I wasn’t paid much and would have stayed if I had kept the respect I did have.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:24:12 +0000

Only spending time with people you respect can be reverse interpreted to show that you respect yourself. I recented stopped spending time with someone because our values were so different. It doesn’t make my values better than theirs or vice versa, but it does make me respect myself more to be true to me.

One company I worked at a number of years ago, I was chastised by management because I treated everyone the same. This same management ruled with fear and turnover was huge. The same people that didn’t want to do a thing for them would do anything I asked, indeed went out of their way to help me, all because they knew I genuinely respected them. Just because someone was cleaning toilets, it didn’t make them any less valuable than someone’s higher paid position. If you think so, then try using the bathroom when it hasn’t been cleaned.

People give more of themselves in terms of effort and loyalty when they feel appreciated, and respect is more than half of that formula!

By: EnEM

EnEM — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:06:04 +0000

Respect is a value and like all the other values, it has to be earned.