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Saying Thank You

Let’s start off with a question. How much effort is it to say thank you to someone?

Yesterday I was in the city with a booth for Pop-of-Flavor selling my popcorn. It’s something I enjoy doing because it is the best of all worlds: you get to meet new people, you get to feed them and best of all put a smile on someone’s face. I enjoy all of this without even having them buying something from me. [See why business can be hard for someone like me? But that’s a different post! haha]

My first interaction yesterday though was not as pleasant as usual, and it got me thinking. The person in question tasted the popcorn and said “OH! But that’s delicious! I want some of that!!”

Now to me that sounds like you want to buy.. right? Nope. They fully expected me to give it away. And when it became apparent that it was not going to happen, the person stomped away. 

So where’s the link between this story and saying thank you?

Had the person reacted differently by saying for example thank you but no thank you, it would not have had me thinking and evaluating if doing what I do is still what I should be doing. So… how much does it actually cost to say thank you? Seems it could cost someone around a thousand a year in “wasted” time to say thank you. 

The studies out there are numerous but this talk sums it up quite well.

What do you think about this? How often do you say thank you? Do the math and then tell us about it 🙂
Happy Friyay everyone!