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Ideje izpod odeje >> Dodaj svojo idejo za boljši svet >> daymaker http://www.gape.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1061555636 Message started by Marjana on 22.08.2003 at 14:33:55 |
Title: daymaker Post by Marjana on 22.08.2003 at 14:33:55 DAYMAKER A few times each year, I interrupt the regular Inspire message to bring you a special announcement. Today, I am writing to share a simple, yet profound idea that has been championed by a remarkable man named David Wagner. David's idea is to be a Daymaker. Just as you'd expect a Daymaker is someone who intentionally does things to "make someone's day"... several times per day, every day. The idea is to intentionally look for small ways to do nice things for others. Then quietly do them. I want to share a quick story about how all of this got started. David owns a major hair salon and spa business that does over $25 million in annual sales. A number of years ago, when David still provided services to his clients, a woman came in for a hair cut several weeks before she was expected. During the visit, David was wondering why she had come back so far ahead of schedule, so he asked if she had something special to go to that night. The client responded that she did not. A few days later, David received a letter from this woman. In the letter she thanked David for the care and attention he provided and went on to explain that the real reason she had come in that day was that she wanted to look nice when they found her. She had planned to commit suicide that evening. She explained that David was so nice to her, and he made her feel so good and so worthy of care that she realized that maybe life really was worth living. She did not commit suicide, but rather sought professional help to improve her life. It was at that moment that David realized that he had absolutely no idea this woman was planning suicide the very day she was in his chair. He realized just how tremendously powerful the little things he did could be. He changed the title on his business card to read: David Wagner, Daymaker He decided to write a book about being a Daymaker. It is a small little book. He got a small publisher to print a small initial run. It became a run-away success. Not from advertising or promotion, but from word-of- mouth. Friends telling friends. The entire print run sold out. Another print run was ordered. Those sold out, and the next print run is just now becoming available. The book had such a wonderful response that the trade association for the salon industry decided to support David and his Daymaker idea. This group, TSA (The Salon Association) officially proclaimed that Wednesday, April 29th, 2003, would be Daymaker Day. The Good Morning America show last week was the start of a month long tour of our country where David is going from city to city to tell the Daymaker story. At each stop along the way, salon owners are volunteering to help David by being Daymakers too. They are going into homeless shelters, Ronald McDonald House, Children's' Hospitals and the like to volunteer, bringing a bit of beauty into the lives of people fighting some big problems. I'm proud to be able to say that David Wagner is my friend, and I wanted to share him with you. He has a web site at: http://www.daymakermovement.com/ His book is "Inspiring" and it is full of wonderful quotes. I'll close with a quote from his book: DIRECTION You've got to think about the big things while you're doing the small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. - Alvin Toffler Being a Daymaker is a simple idea. It is easy to do. More than anything, it is an attitude. I find that my own day improves in a major way when I hold in my mind the idea of being on the look out for ways to make someone else's day. You might want to try it too! Thanks for listening. Regards, Michael Bledsoe, Publisher Inspire |
Title: Re: daymaker Post by A. on 24.08.2003 at 12:28:04 ta je pa huda |
Title: Re: daymaker Post by Marjana on 24.08.2003 at 13:08:08 kaj je hudega? jaz ugotavljam, da to ze kar pogosto pocnem - ne ravno enega na dan, bolj tako priloznostno :) |
Title: Re: daymaker Post by Harry on 24.08.2003 at 23:33:34 Mislim, da bi potrebovali tudi kakšen rainmaker. A ga je že kdo izumil? ??? |
Title: Re: daymaker Post by Marjana on 25.08.2003 at 09:08:05 ;D |
Title: Re: daymaker Post by DylanDog on 26.08.2003 at 17:37:15 wrote on 24.08.2003 at 23:33:34:
Seveda, ...prodajajo se za kaksnih 4K SITnih ;D ...votel bambus?, lesen thing pac, ..meter in nekaj dolg, spiralno vtaknjene palcice, notri pa menda pesek al kaj, ..in obrnes in dela SSSSSSSSSSSSS...... in obrnes...... in obrnes.... |
Title: Re: daymaker Post by Lilith on 11.09.2003 at 18:27:37 To pa že moram povedati, da je med vami nekdo, ki mi je polepšal dan, ko sem se znašla na tem forumu kot novinka. Prijazen sprejem, malo napotkov okrog sistema delovanja in kot vidite mi že šiba. Tako da bom tudi jaz po sistemu "daj naprej" polepšala dan enemu (petim, stotim... :D) ta novim. Govorila sem. |
Title: Re: daymaker Post by EvaZh on 24.09.2003 at 16:56:36 Ljubezen Vsem/u open up |
Title: Re: daymaker Post by ten-nej on 01.10.2003 at 09:06:53 Harmony Harmony Harmony I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony Cut it up in little tiny bits And give it all away for free Harmony What we need is a big big cooking pot Big enough to cook every wonderful Beautiful, trustworrthy, lovely idea we've got ::) :-* |
Title: Re: daymaker Post by Devi on 23.10.2003 at 09:40:04 Vse najboljše vsem na današnji prekrasen dan!!! :D :D :D :D :-* :-* |
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