Tag Archive for: Dale Carnegie

Personalization

Personalization

As those who have read my posts before you know that I have read and attended the Dale Carnegie’s programs. In fact I have written about his first principal the 3 C’s before, and you can check it out here. Today I am going to touch on another one of his principals and how I am adapting it to my mortgage business.

His 6th principal in working to become a friendlier person is to remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. This is why I strive my best to remember and use people’s name when I am taking with them. It is in that vein that I have signed up for a service called Hyperise that will look to personalize your visit to my website.

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Quickly & Emphatically

Quickly & Emphatically

Dale Carnegie said it best when trying to win people over to your way of thinking, if you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. Let’s face it we are only human and we do make mistakes from time to time. Here is an example to illustrate that fact.

I run on the rails to trails system which starts near Old Ashburn Golf course and continues down past Hubbards and to Lunenburg. I am on the trail almost every day, from walks with my dog to long bike rides on the weekend. Today I was doing a 5K run on the trail and came up upon someone smoking which normally one does not run into very often. To make matters worse I yelled out at them for smoking as I ran past. Exercise is how I control my asthma, but … Read more