This will be short and a little “rant-ish” if you will….
How much butt kissing is really too much kissing butt? Where do you draw the line between a little white lie and a flat out lie when it comes to pleasing clients and other people? Steve Harvey said his dad taught him to never get into the butt kissing business. Because not everyone is going to like how you do it! I agree! However, sometimes, you have to KINDA kiss butt! I have some that love it and I have some that get offended and want me to be “real” with them. I wish everyone wanted reality! It would be so much easier! I will do my due diligence in aiding my clients in the quickest, most effective way to increase their profit AS ALONG AS it doesn’t effect MY profit or MY integrity. I struggle with THAT point. When I’m at THAT point, I get quiet. It’s apparent that I’ve said all that I’m going to say but it isn’t specific to what my thoughts are in that moment! Part of that reason is I don’t want to lose my job! The other part is, I’m not comfortable with confrontation. As part of my reinvention process, I want to get better about that. I don’t wanna go around arguing with everyone…but I would like to proudly be honest and up front more often!
I seem to have ZERO problem being bluntly honest about my immediate thoughts with my HUSBAND! He’s probably the only one I should really take stock in thinking about what I say to! Why is that? Why is it that the one you love the most is the one you are hardest on? I need to be kissing HIS butt sometimes! I bet he’d like that!
Bye for now,
RR
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I sooooooo do that Racheal! I say anything to Chris and sometimes after I said it I probably shouldn’t have. I am blunt and to the point. Need to work on that. Thanks for making me aware of that. What is so weird is that I am so careful what I say to others.
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Agreed. But kissing and truly being kind and helpful have a very close relationship. Hard to find the balance. However, when it is sincere, it isn’t but kissing. I have found myself doing anything but but kissing my husband. I think our spouses always get the worst of this side of us. For me, I feel everyone else expects perfection from me. However, he loves me regardless and doesn’t expect anything from me. He is the one that should get the best of me, yet gets the pent up anxiety I can’t seem to release anywhere else. Blessed to know mine still loves me and I can just be me without any extra judgement!
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You are perfect for him! Join me in making a conscious effort ladies, to honor and respect our husbands. Poor guys, what patience their love allows them to have for us!
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Exhortation is a spiritual gift in the Bible. U can lift someone up without kissing their butt
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I feel the most important thing in customer service is being genuine. I think that in our industry meeting customer expectations is simply not good enough, but we have to EXCEED their expectations in order to keep their business. I don’t feel that we should have to kiss anyones butt. It is our job to be genuine and passionate about first, meeting their expectations, and then exceeding them. One of my favorite quotes (although corny), “The difference in ordinary service and extraordinary service is that little EXTRA.” Unknown.
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