In my book “Happiness in Eight Steps” I talk about the importance of thank you. Now I have a story that makes thank you something special. Last night I was helping Broward College Foundation work on a program to say thank you to those that have been donors to the College.
With economic conditions as they are today we are all getting bombarded with calls from so many worthy causes and the reason is they need money. My questions are who doesn’t. Anyway how do you handle these solicitations? I know it is hard for me, but there is just so much you can give.
Here I go again telling a story by building the house instead of showing you the house. So here is the story.
Last night I volunteered to help make calls to past donors to the college. Ok I already said that, but here is what happened. On my first call Jane was so nice to me when I told her that as member of the Broward College Foundation Board, formally Broward Community College, I wanted to thank her for past generosity.
That is all I said then she said” you are quite welcome and I thank you for the call’. That was the way I left it and she was happy for the phone call.
I think she felt relieved that I didn’t try to get do something like can you spare a few bucks for the college.
The next call almost went the same way. Joan was very appreciative of the thank you and then told me how concerned she was of the young people for their chances of having a fruitful life. I let her know that they will do quite will. She thanked me for the comments and we both said good bye.
My personal opinion is those I called will continue to support the college financially and the main reason is they want to. The thank you with no pressure I think helped to.
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