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Confucius:
“When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.”
Common Courtesy could be specified as:
A courteous act
A generous behavior
Acting politely
Behaving with consideration
Being kind to others
To demonstrate my concern for what has happened to mutual courtesy, I even found it specified using four letter words.
What has happened to mutual courtesy?
A couple of days ago, I was closely run over in the store by a thirty-year-old mother and her two kids. No apology, no recognition, nothing.
Too many times these days, this seems to be the prevailing behavior; the usual attitude is “Me, me, me”.
I’m 74 years old, I still open doors for the elderly, disabled and others. What’s happened to our courtesy and good manners?
Why does our society seem so angry?
We didn’t applied to have:
Road rage
Work place shootings
School shootings
Kids beating other kids
Parents beating each other and their kids.
We applied to wave to people on the road. Now, we give them a one finger salute. It’s not pretty.
Is it the economy?
The political evil in Washington?
Is it too a heap of people?
Is it the proliferation of cell phones?
What’s happened?
I don’t know what has caused it. I do recognise it may be changed by one person at a time altering their behavior.
Unknown:
“It is difficult to find a courteous person today who isn’t attempting to trade you something.”
One of the things you may do, is to take a look at your anger. Who did it to you? Who made you mad?
Find out. Write a Resentment Inventory.
List everyone you blame for your life and everyone you resent. Who done you wrong? What did they do? Write it down. Then pardon each one of them, release them and let it go.
It’s simple say something like, “John, I no longer blame and resent you. I bless you; I release you.”
Reexamine your list. Then make an amends to all the persons you blame and resent.
Finally, release resentment and blame from your consciousness.
When did you loss faith in mankind? When did you detect the world was an angry place? I begun noticing five or six years ago, and it has gotten worse. Where have our manners and kindliness gone?
Do we just not care?
Is it the war?
Is it the recession?
Is it the times?
Or what?
You may not be capable to answer the questions but you may take positive action.
Unknown:
“Courtesy is a little act but it packs a mighty wallop.”
I’ve decisive to do something in regards to my own anger and resentments. I exercise the 15 Tips under and undertake to make my little corner of the world a better place.
Here’s how you may fetch the Golden Rule back. You may support fetch civility to our world.
15 things you may do – take a time each day to:
1. Read something spiritual
2. Meditate
3. Write a thankful list
4. Tell somebody you love them
5. Smile and wave at your neighbor
6. Let someone in front of you on the drive to work
7. Open a door for someone
8. Smile at three persons before noon
9. Laugh at yourself at least once before the end of day
10. Compliment someone
11. Say “Thank you” to someone
12. Make eye contact with people
13. Keep your thoughts’ positive
14. Clean up a drawer, a file, your garage, or closet
15. Spend time with humans you love
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“Life is short but there ought to always be time for courtesy.”
These 15 Tips will make you and those around you happier. If every one just did this each day, the world would be a better place.
Perhaps somebody else will see you do a benignancy and determine to act nicer too, and it will cause a ripple effect.
Thomas Fuller:
“All doors open to courtesy.”
Summary
Unknown:
“Courtesy will have to be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.”
Perhaps if you start, with the tips above, you’ll affect another person to do the same. They in turn may affect others and a whole ripple of good will and courtesy will disseminate out and make our society a nicer place.
Copyright © Wee Dilts 2010
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On his introductory presidential visit to address the European nations, President Obama felt it necessary to apologize for America’s global power. He repeated that apology when visiting Latin America, and again to Muslims international in an consultation broadcast on Al-Arabiya television. In No Apology, Mitt Romney asserts that American strength is essential—not just for our own well-being, but for the world’s. Governments such as China and a newly-robust Russia threaten to overtake us on some fronts, and Islam proceeds it is dangerous rise. Drawing on history for lessons on how outstanding powers collapse, Romney shows how and why our national vantages have eroded. From the long-term decline of our fabricating base, our laggard instructional scheme that has left us without sufficient engineers, scientists, and other skilled professionals, our corrupted financial exercises that led to the current crisis, and the crushing affect of entitlements on our future obligations, America is in debt, overtaxed, and unprepared for the challenges it will have to face. We need renewal: fresh ideas to cut through elaborated difficultnesses and restore our strength. Creative and bold, Romney proposes simple solutions to rebuild industry, invent good jobs, reduce out of control spending on entitlements and healthcare, dramatically improve education, and restore a military battered by eight years of war. Most important, he calls for a new commitment to citizenship, a mutual cause we all share, rather than a laundry list of person demands. Many of his solutions oppose President Obama’s policies, a heap of likewise run counter to Republican thinking, but all have one strategic aim: to move America back to political and economic strength. Personal and dynamically-argued, No Apology is a call to action by a man who cares deeply with regards to America’s history, it is promise, and it is future.
Review “Here is an accomplished executive in the private and public spheres who has done his homework. If he runs again for president in 2012, most of his agenda is on the record from the start.”–The Washington Times
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160 of 184 people found the following review helpful.
 Can Mitt Romney Save America?
By James R. Holland
The answer to that question is why most readers will bother buying, borrowing or reading this book by the former Massachusetts Governor and 2008 Presidential indispensable candidate. In this time of national and international recession the voters and affected non-voters around the world are looking for a leader who may genuinely solve the major emergencies facing America, Freedom and Capitalism itself.
As the grandson of American Immigrants whose family was run out of Mexico by Mexican revolutionaries angry with American Expatriates, Mitt grew up as share of a family that worked themselves up from desperate poverty to live the American Dream. His father worked as a wall plasterer while he supported his family and worked his way through college. He at last earned his way into the presidency of American Motor Corporation (AMC) and bet his house (or at least the cash he’d made from retail his home) on the successful development of the Rambler compact car. He later became three-time governor of Michigan.
Mitt grew up in a family that had strong core values and he discusses those core values allround this book. This reviewer genuinely met most of Mitt’s family including Gov. George Romney when Mitt ran an not successful crusade for Senate in Massachusetts. The whole family was percentage of that effort and the lessons they learned with that loss served Mitt well a few years when he with great success won election for the Governorship of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Romney managed to do a good occupation managing that state even though he didn’t have sufficient Republican legislative votes to uphold a veto and hence had to reach all over the aisle to the Democrats controlling the State House in order to accomplish his agenda.
Romney believes that if America becomes a victim of socialism that freedom all around the world will be lost. If the nation is not careful, it will become a second rate world country–still strong sufficient to survive, but not strong sufficient to defend freedom anyplace else in the world.
“There are three pillars that sustain a free and strong America:
l. A Strong Economy
2. A Strong Military
3. A free and Strong People.”
Romney then provides an agenda for a free and strong America. His list of goals includes 64 distinguished items and even Romney admits that his is not a finish list of changes needed. Studying that agenda will provide the reader with a decent idea of how Romney would tackle the nation’s problems.
The book’s second chapter “Why Nations Decline” is likewise instructive. Mitt briefly examines the reasons the Ottomans, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Chinese, the British, the Soviets–these were all super-powers of their respective eras “and they were all surpassed.” The reasons for these nation’s failures were eerily similar to much of what is occurring in the USA and Western Europe.
The book examines a lot of of the reasons for today’s difficulties and provides a lot of finelooking decent ideas with regards to how to solve them. Romney likewise describes why numerous humans prefer to live in denial of the facts and why in past civilizations that failure to face undeniable facts led to the destruction of those great civilizations.
In the book’s eleventh and last chapter this reader was astonished by a great deal of personal
stories that brought tears to my eyes. Since I was reading while seated at the Prudential Center Food Court Terrace, it was a little embarrassing to abruptly finding my eyes tearing up and salty streams trickling down my cheeks. That anything in this volume might require having tissues available was a total shock. Surprise, surprise, because the former 99% of the book had been straight-forward logic and business-like explanations of Romney’s beliefs and ideas on how to solve the nation’s speedily expanding and very dangerous problems, this capacity to fetch forth tears in an audience was enlightening.
The text was not boring and there was a little humor such as Mitt’s description of the fall his wife Ann experienced when the stage they were speaking from in Dubuque, Iowa, collapsed. When she got up, “dusted herself off, and later ad-libbed, `Well, I fell on de butt in Dubuque.’” The man evident isn’t just a cool headed, unflappable, perchance on occasion seemingly unfeeling man; he is an experienced leader and well schooled in the workings of Capitalism, industrial production and occupation constructing economics He is also amazingly well spoken and as Bostonians know, he used to once in a while substitute as a host on a ordinary conservative talk show in order to keep in touch with the Massachusetts public. He wasn’t scared to talk to the frequent public, but he relished the probability that only talk radio provides for contact with typical voters. He loved that form of give and take communication.
This is a good read for this political genre. It will provide the data that numerous persons will need to determine if years of leadership experience must triumph over hope.
102 of 127 people found the following review helpful.
An inspiring American Story
By Susanna Hutcheson
In his new book, which is perchance his entry into the next presidential election, Mitt Romney talks regarding alien policy and domestic issues — he delivers a great deal of possible solutions as well. He wants America to be safe and active with a vigorous free market. He discusses national security, economic productivity, education and energy amid other things.
Romney does use lots of selective information to back up his opinions. That’s in truth a good thing, even though galore people might be turned off by it.
Romney tells us, “This is a book when it comes to what I believe ought to be our necessary national objective: to keep America strong and to preserve it is place as the world’s leading nation. And it describes the course I believe we must take to beef up the nation in order to stay prosperous, secure, and free.”
But we likewise learn regarding Romney, the man.
He is the son of a third generation American Immigrant whose family was run out of Mexico by Mexican revolutionaries. He grew up as portion of a family that worked itself up from horrid poverty to live what most consider the American Dream.
His father worked as a wall plasterer while he supported his family and worked his way through college. Mitt’s father became president of American Motor Corporation (AMC) and later became three-time governor of Michigan.
Romney discusses the values he grew up with. Of course, he went into politics like his father before him. He tells us in his book that if America turns to socialism, freedom all around the world will be lost. If we are not careful with what we have left, we’ll become a second-rate country.
I found the book enlightening and hopeful. I think you will too.
- Susanna K. Hutcheson
72 of 89 humans found the following review helpful.
No Apology
By Jed M. Merrill
Considering the title No Apology, you might think this book is perhaps just an attack ad on President Obama’s “apology tour.” To the contrary, No Apology is an expression of optimism, alongside the positive premise that we need to do more to pass America on to our kids and grand kids a free and strong nation.
No Apology is evenly divided amid alien policy and domestic agenda concerns. If you watched Mitt’s aspect on The View, you know his top three worries (aside from replacing the President, the Senate, and Congress!) are protecting the threatened American dream (including managing debt), making Medicare sustainable, and reforming education (hiring from the top third of our schools and paying higher starting salaries to this higher usual of teachers!) These worries along with a lot of specific prescriptions and originative ideas are major themes of his book.
Ultimately, this book is Mitt’s modest and inspiring try to bestow to the speech of what America must be. It’s not in regards to election or reelection, but doing what is right for our kids and grandkids, the real America.
If you’re not sure what to think of Mitt, be sure to take your Amazon copy of No Apology to one of the stops on his book tour! This book is authentic Mitt, and those who grasp the real difficulties America is facing would be crazy not to consider him for our next President.
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