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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

So I want you to tip everybody that you meet.

See, a tip is a gratuity given after someone has performed a service that you're grateful for, right?

No, that's not what it means at all.

That's the mistake.

It's argued that the origin of the word tip, TIP, is to to ensure promptness or to ensure performance,

which means it's supposed to be given up front to ensure

performance. The intent is to influence the experience you are about to have. You can do that with every person you meet.

You can tip them to ensure performance. We communicate with feelings more than we do words.

No matter what you say, people can feel your intent.

We often prepare the words we're going to say,

but not the feelings that we want to convey.

The most powerful feeling that we can convey is gratitude.

But we often wait until after the performance and it's too late to

influence it passive gratitude is a feeling you have after something happens or someone has done something

for you proactive gratitude feeling grateful in advance so that you can ensure performance. So before you meet

anyone, write down two to three things that you appreciate about that person. I promise you,

it will change the entire interaction. It will change the feeling that you convey and the reaction and response that

you get. So do that today. Think of three people that you will meet with throughout the day.

Think of a few things that you appreciate about them. Write them down. Now before your meeting,

read and review that list. You'll be amazed at the magic this brings to your

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