Saying thank you pays off

Looking for work is challenging; it can be a demoralizing, ego-busting process but it doesn't have to be that way. It is during difficult times that we most need to count our blessings.Thank You I would like to thank everyone. Expressing gratitude during dark days can help us overcome feelings of isolation, inadequacy and envy. Giving thanks gets us out our head and into our heart.

In his book "Thanks!" Dr. Robert A. Emmons describes the results of research he carried out about the impact gratitude had on participants of his study. People who were in gratitude felt fully 25 percent happier. They were more optimistic about the future and felt better about their lives.In the remaining days of the year commit to saying "thank you" frequently and with feeling. Here are some suggestions for doing just that: Say "thank you" with a sincere, heartfelt compliment that expresses how your friend's assistance made a difference to you.

Invite a friend over for coffee and conversation. Make the day be about her.Invite a friend over for coffee and conversation. Make the day be about her.Do a chore or run an errand for your spouse — walk the dog, do the dishes or shop for groceries. Pay your appreciation forward by doing a good turn for someone who needs a helping hand. It is even more fun when your good deed is anonymous. Write three quick emails of appreciation before you leave the house this morning. Make a quick phone call just to say, "I'm thinking of you."

Thank You I would like to thank everyone

The Cheyenne FFA and the Cheyenne Student Council wishes to thank the parents, students, faculty, staff, administration, and community members who helped us collect over 3,400 cans of food for our food drive. We appreciate your assistance and cooperation. We want especially to thank the teachers for their assistance in the actual collecting of the cans each day.

Congratulations to the first grade class and the seniors for winning. We believe that this project proves what we already knew—the Cheyenne community is a giving and caring place. Congratulations to the winners but thanks to all the students who worked so hard on this project. Thanks to your efforts, no one will go without during these winter months

Thank You I would like to thank everyone for the prayers, gifts, cards, flowers, treats, phone calls and visits during and after my surgery. I am doing really good and back in school part time.Thanks again, Shamen Parkhurst Christy Batchelor & family.Thank You We would like to thank the Masonic Lodge, Roger Mills County #1 & 3 for the amazing meal that was so thoughtfully organized, and held for our benefit. Words can not express our sincerest and most heartfelt gratitude for the love and support from everyone involved in any way.

Business address is fine on thank-you note

This upcoming week is my last week at my current job. I was given lovely little gifts and notes by the teens with whom I currently work, and I have written thank-you cards. I am wondering, do I use my home address as the return address, or should I use my employer (a public institution) as the return address.Easy Ways to Support the Troops During the Holidays. I am using personal thank-you cards and my own stamps.

First, with all the talk of incivility and rudeness, especially about teens, I revel in your story: teens writing thank-you notes and giving small gifts showing their appreciation for what you have done for them. For all the good things teens — and people of all ages — do for each other, what we usually hear about is the one story of rudeness, which, like a bad apple, spoils all the good ones that are out there.

Your choice to send a thank-you note to each teen is admirable. Receiving a thank-you note from you is a great object lesson for them. The thank-you note is really an easy and effective way to connect with people and make a positive impression. It can be short — three to five sentences. Write it right away; the next day is perfect. Stick to the point: Comment about the person, the event, or the gift; offer an expression of thanks; and suggest any follow-up you plan to do.

Easy Ways to Support the Troops During the Holidays

This holiday season, some retailers are making it easy to give a personal "thank you" directly to the men and women serving the country. For instance, national retailer, Things Remembered, is helping people -- even those on a budget -- send unique, personalized gifts to deployed service members.Things Remembered shoppers purchasing gifts for deployed military personnel will receive 25 percent off and free shipping on any personalized gift sent to an APO/FPO address.

The promotion will run through November 20, giving plenty of opportunity to personally thank those protecting our nation in time for the holidays.Even shoppers who don't personally know any deployed servicemen or women can show their support. All Things Remembered stores will be featuring local deployed military members to receive gifts from their hometown neighbors.

Show your appreciation for those who have helped protect our country by volunteering at your local Veterans Affairs hospital or nursing home this season, even if only for a few hours.You are sure to meet some fascinating men and women and you'll be bringing holiday cheer to those who may not have many visitors.Former service members stateside should also be recognized.

Send a thank-you gift

Give a personal thank you directly to the men and women serving the country. Some retailers are making it easy to support the troops this holiday season.Business Gifts For That Personal Connection. For instance, national retailer Things Remembered is helping people – even those on a budget – send unique, personalized gifts to deployed service members.

Things Remembered shoppers purchasing gifts for deployed military personnel will receive 25 percent off and free shipping on any personalized gift sent to an APO/FPO address. The promotion will run through Nov. 20, giving all the opportunity to personally thank those protecting our nation in time for the holidays.

Even shoppers who don't personally know any deployed servicemen or women can show their support. All Things Remembered stores will be featuring local deployed military members who would love to receive gifts from their hometown neighbors.Troops serving overseas do not have the luxury of spending the holidays with their loved ones, but there are also former service members stateside who should be recognized.

Business Gifts For That Personal Connection

Business gifts are great ways to show appreciation to employees, and to say thank you or to congratulate them for a job well done or for something else going on in their lives.  They are also great to save up for your best customers as a way to say "thank you for your business".  After all, without our clients we would be nowhere at all!

It is not always possible to hand deliver gifts to clients, especially when those clients are located across the country or are even in a different part of the world.  In this case, take the time to create a special note or hand written letter for those clients who merit special attention, and include them with the nicely wrapped package that you will be sending inside the shipping box.

As for employees, there are many occasions on which a business gift is appropriate, and these range from a promotion to a completed project and from an anniversary with the company to the birth of a new child.  Business gifts are meant to show your employees that they are important to you and that you care about what is going on with them and/or are thankful for the hard work that they are doing for you, so prove that appreciation by giving them their business gifts in person.

Never too late to say thanks properly

When I became engaged, the women of my religious institution (my mother's contemporaries) held a shower for me, for which I immediately wrote thank-you notes for the luncheon and the gifts.My husband and I were married by a judge but had a reception several months later in my hometown. While I was mingling with the guests, one of the ladies who had attended the luncheon came up to me and told me, with a smile, that I had written her a thank-you note for the wrong gift (I got you X, and you thanked me for Y) and that she thought I would like to know. I was mortified, of course. I apologized effusively, said it must have been new-bride idiocy, thanked her for the gift she did give me and retired red-faced.It has haunted me since then, and I've never seen her afterward without feeling like a fool — and I've been married 29 years.Should I have written her another thank-you note? What would have been the best response? Since no one else mentioned anything, I can only hope that the rest of the notes were accurate. It's years too late, of course, but I'd love to lay this ghost to rest and feel I acted correctly at the time. Personalised Thank You Gifts - Make Your Thank You a Golden One.Twenty-nine years is a long time to feel like a fool, and Miss Manners would like to offer you some relief. But alas, she cannot bring herself to declare that the fact that the lady already had a (misguided) letter from you, or your including thanks with your embarrassed apology, took the place of a genuine and correct letter of thanks.Presumably the lady herself has long since forgotten. But you have not, which does you credit. So the job now is to get it off your conscience.