Hi friends,
I had been
reading a book on Impression Training. It is about how you can improve your
first impression, maintain yourself happy and lead you to your goals – nothing
new, a typical self-coaching book.
I enjoyed
reading it though. The author was a single mother who had redundancy soon after
her divorce. She was desperate to find work to raise her two children, so tried to register herself with an agency.
She visited one of those recruitment agencies
and she was told to fill in the form on the screen in front of her but she had
never used a PC before. When she asked a member of staff for help, she was told
to ‘just click the box and fill in’.
She had no
idea what “click” meant and left the agency quietly. Off course, she did not
get any calls from that agency.
After that, she
was employed by a hotel to clean the entrance area of the grand
building every morning. She started greeting people even though they were not
hotel guests. She kept greeting people with smile every day.
It is
nothing new and her approach is pretty basic but I liked her way. It certainly
worked and she started bringing people to the hotel. They started talking to
her ‘well, I might use your restraint one day’, ‘we will book your hotel for
our clients.’
After few
years, she was promoted to a hospitality manager of the hotel and was
appointed to be a chief to welcome the biggest guest the hotel had ever
received, Dalai Lama.
Well, I thought I might have been missing or underestimating basic
yet very important things in life in these days.
Anyway, my
usual stuff. Breakfast and lunch. My lovely younger friend gave me a pack of
vegetable stock. It was onion based and simply delicious. I made ratatouille
with it.
Then, pizza
with left over ratatouille.
Thank you
for reading and wishing you a lovely weekend.
