Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Vow of Kindness - Take 1

This week I decided to try something new. I had decided that I was way too abrasive to the people that call into my job each day, and made a vow to myself that I was going to be nice to everyone who called my job. I'm not always nice on the phone... too many times when I pick up the phone I just think of a voice, not about the person who it belongs to, or about the things they're going through that day. I want to be someone who brightens the day of people who call, someone that people look forward to chatting with. So yesterday I tried it.

I have several incidents I'd like to rant about, but it's past my bedtime, so let me just sum it all up by saying:

I failed. I flopped. I sucked.

But tomorrow is a new day, filled with new challenges and possibly nice yummy chinese food. I'm not giving up, I'm going to try again... I really DO want my words to be a gift to others.
Eph 4:29 Watch the way you talk... Say only what helps, each word a gift.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Isn't it good that God gives us each new day to start all over again and get it right?! Thanks goodness for His grace or we'd all be stuck.

Anonymous said...

I also try to be as friendly as possible on the phone and in person. And it was especially hard today, because we had a couple who came in, got treated, got ugly with both of us and did not want to pay. But they did, hee.