Follow the Golden Rule

This is somewhat of a continuation from last week. (Almost) But you'll see my point by the end of this.

Everybody knows what the golden rule is, right? "Treat someone as you wish to be treated." It's a simple concept that is usually beaten in to our heads as youngsters. As you get older you start to follow it without knowing. When you get in to your first job around 15 or 16 years old, you're fresh, excited, and ready to rock and roll. But step back from your life and look at how differently you acted at that first job.  Whether you were nervous or not, you acted differently that you would at home or with your best friends. I'm right, aren't I? I knew it. But it's simple, you're out in the world treating people nicely or as polite as you can because you don't want to be hassled at your day job. You want to go in, make some money, and get out. It's that simple. However, we see that glaze of freshness falter when someone disrupts the good you're doing. No biggie. Just remember this, no matter what happens. No matter who is involved, just be the nicest person you can be and good things will happen.

It may seem silly but just imagine that you're now 23 again, on your way to interview for that big position at the firm you've been in love with for years now. On your way in you hold the door for a group of people who are walking in behind you. Each one of them thanks you and then fills the elevator you needed to be on to make it up to the 18th floor to be on time for your appointment. Ooops. You're late now. BUT, as you're frantically rushing up those stairs to make it in time, that group of people just so happened to be the people you held the door for and they saw that you're a good guy. You're instantly on their good graces, and you can take the interview from there. You've got their attention, and you can impress them from now on.

It's honestly simple gestures like that. You can hold the door, hold a cab, maybe help somebody pick up their books or files they've just dropped. You'll start to see changes in your life in regards to the way people see you. You just never know who you can impress when or where. You might thing that 2AM on a Thursday night, there won't be someone of importance here. But maybe you're wrong. Perhaps you run in to Marty Scorcese pumping gas and you lend him a hand. He returns the favor by asking if you want to be in his next gangster film. There are a lot of variables in action to make your life better if you help make others lives better.

And this is the point I bring back from last week. Whether you're tweeting, acting, interviewing, or anything. Just be aware, and just be nice. This is quite possibly the easiest thing to remember when trying to impress a future employer. It's not that hard to do, and it's not hard to maintain. So give it a shot, and enjoy!