Something new here today.
Was somewhere online a few days ago reading about blogs and attracting new readers and one of the things this article said was that getting other perspectives could help draw new readers. So I asked several of my readers if they wanted to post something themselves about how The Law of Attraction was working in their own lives.

To pull another quote from one of my favorite movies:
Ya all know me. Ya know how I make livin’
You know how much I LOVE writing this blog every day and this is by NO means a shirking of my duty but I’d love to get some other views here.

My Friend Tim who has been following my blog since its inception is the first to send something. Here’s what he said:
I realize now that the Law of Attraction has always been at work in my life. One memory is when I was only seventeen years old. I wanted to get a Jeep, and my father said if I saved up a certain amount of money, he’d give me the rest. Fair enough, I thought. Little did I know that once we made this agreement and put the thoughts out there about a certain kind of Jeep, we noticed Jeeps everywhere: in parking lots, dealer ships, on the highway, and in people’s driveways. Where were all these Jeeps before? They were there, I realize now, but came to me then because I had put thoughts out there about Jeeps. Needless to say, I never got a Jeep, but I have noticed since reading the Law of Attraction, once you put thoughts out there, you become more acutely aware of how (whatever you’re thinking) is right there. I’m now starting to apply this to my writing and other areas of my life.

Thanks to Chris for introducing me to this Law and his daily Wisdom and Life Blog.

Onto my Tuesday Blog:

My friend, Mary emailed this to me last year and though you can find it online, I thought I’d share it with my readers. What are you doing to make your job the BEST it can be?

Ducks Quack Eagles Soar

No one can make you serve customers well. That’s because great service is a choice.

Harvey Mackay, tells a wonderful story about a cab driver that proved this point.

He was waiting in line for a ride at the airport. When a cab pulled up, the first thing Harvey noticed was that the taxi was polished to a bright shine. Smartly dressed in a white shirt, black tie, and freshly pressed black slacks, the cab driver jumped out and rounded the car to open the back passenger door for Harvey ..

He handed my friend a laminated card and said: ‘I’m Wally, your driver. While I’m loading your bags in the trunk I’d like you to read my mission statement.’

Taken aback, Harvey read the card.

It said: Wally’s Mission Statement: To get my customers to their destination in the quickest, safest and cheapest way possible in a friendly environment…

This blew Harvey away. Especially when he noticed that the inside of the cab matched the outside. Spotlessly clean!

As he slid behind the wheel, Wally said, ‘Would you like a cup of coffee? I have a thermos of regular and one of decaf.’
My friend said jokingly, ‘No, I’d prefer a soft drink.’
Wally smiled and said, ‘No problem. I have a cooler up front with regular and Diet Coke, water and orange juice.’

Almost stuttering, Harvey said, ‘I’ll take a Diet Coke.’
Handing him his drink, Wally said, ‘If you’d like something to read, I have The Wall Street Journal, Time, Sports Illustrated and USA Today.’

As they were pulling away, Wally handed my friend another laminated card, ‘These are the stations I get and the music they play, if you’d like to listen to the radio.’
And as if that weren’t enough, Wally told Harvey that he had the air conditioning on and asked if the temperature was comfortable for him.
Then he advised Harvey of the best route to his destination for that time of day. He also let him know that he’d be happy to chat and tell him about some of the sights or, if Harvey preferred, to leave him with his own thoughts…

‘Tell me, Wally,’ my amazed friend asked the driver, ‘have you always served customers like this?’

Wally smiled into the rear view mirror. ‘No, not always. In fact, it’s only been in the last two years. My first five years driving, I spent most of my time complaining like all the rest of the cabbies do. Then I heard the personal growth guru, Wayne Dyer, on the radio one day.
He had just written a book called You’ll See It When Yo u Believe It . Dyer said that if you get up in the morning expecting to have a bad day, you’ll rarely disappoint yourself. He said, ‘Stop complaining! Differentiate yourself from your competition. Don’t be a duck. Be an eagle. Ducks quack and complain. Eagles soar above the crowd.”

That hit me right between the eyes,’ said Wally. ‘Dyer was really talking about me. I was always quacking and complaining, so I decided to change my attitude and become an eagle. I looked around at the other cabs and their drivers. The cabs were dirty, the drivers were unfriendly, and the customers were unhappy. So I decided to make some changes. I put in a few at a time. When my customers responded well, I did more.’

‘I take it that has paid off for you,’ Harvey said.

‘It sure has,’ Wally replied. ‘My first year as an eagle, I doubled my income from the previous year. This year I’ll probably quadruple it. You were lucky to get me today. I don’t sit at cabstands anymore. My customers call me for appointments on my cell phone or leave a message on my answering machine. If I can’t pick them up myself, I get a reliable cabbie friend to do it and I take a piece of the action.’

Wally was phenomenal. He was running a limo service out of a Yellow Cab. I’ve probably told that story to more than fifty cab drivers over the years, and only two took the idea and ran with it. Whenever I go to their cities, I give them a call. The rest of the drivers quacked like ducks and told me all the reasons they couldn’t do any of what I was suggesting.
Wally the Cab Driver made a different choice. He decided to stop quacking like ducks and start soaring like eagles.

How about us? Smile, and the whole world smiles with you…. The ball is in our hands! A man reaps what he sows. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up… let us do good to all people.

Ducks Quack, Eagles Soar!

Have a nice day, unless you already have other plans

2 thoughts on “Ducks Quack, Eagles Soar

  1. Sanjay kumar

    Very good article

  2. Sanjay kumar

    GOOD morning good

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