Gentlewoman: Etiquette for a Lady, From a Gentleman Read Online Free PDF Page A

don’t overdose on freedom. Not every action is OK. Sometimes you affect others negatively, and freedom won’t justify your behavior. Yes, you’re free to walk around with offensive breath, but you shouldn’t. Mints are free in glass bowls at every front desk in a restaurant near you. Look next to the toothpicks.
    While we have established the need for gentlewomen in our culture, the practices of the well-mannered Lady are firmly rooted in comfortable and natural behavior. At any time if it doesn’t feel right, you’re just not doing it right. Open up this book, turn to this section and try again.
    In this chapter, we will examine codes of conduct for your consideration and most of all, for you to apply and repeat with confidence and ease. These rules aren’t put in place to blindly obey. Think about each rule and how it applies to your life or the lives of others. Use these tools to rebuild what’s broken and build upon what’s already beautiful. The unwritten laws of the society of gentlewomen are as follows:
    Rule n ° 1 A woman who knows her worth is a damn powerful woman . Figure it out.
    Rule n ° 3 Kindness : It can turn a frown upside-down, an attempted suicide to life and a hater to a lover. Plus, it’s free! It might cost you your ego, but you should’ve thrown that away when you picked up this book. Being friendly, generous and considerate is underrated. Regardless of your position in life, your accolades or your wealth, how you treat people is what they’ll remember. Joseph Joubert said, “Part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.” There will be countless opportunities for you to be rude, but instead be kind. This deed shows you’re in control of your emotions.
    BE KIND TO PEOPLE. YOU NEVER KNOW WHOM YOU’RE TALKING TO.
    There have been many times I’ve treated strangers kindly and didn’t have to. It just so happens that I’ve run into many of those same strangers later in life, and the tables were turned. They were now in the position to help me out. That’s how life works! Be warmhearted, show compassion and gentleness, but don’t let your kindness be taken for weakness. Stand up for any injustice. Just don’t treat others with that same injustice. Be kind to all, even those ugly on the inside. They’re likely going through pain that has nothing to do with you.
    ACTING NICE IS DECEPTIVE. BEING NICE IS BEAUTIFUL. BE BEAUTIFUL.
    Random Acts of Kindness: Have you ever reached for your purse to pay a bridge toll, only for the toll collector to tell you the debt has already been paid? No? OK, have you waited in line at a Starbucks to get your typical morning tall, half skinny/half one percent, extra hot, two shots decaf /two shots regular latte with extra whip, but the stranger ahead ordered it for you already? And paid? Not likely. It doesn’t seem to cross the average mind to look out for a neighbor. If we don’t know them, we don’t owe them.
    It seems most people don’t genuinely care about anyone outside of their immediate family and friends. If it’s a good day, you might toss a persistent panhandler with a creative cardboard some crumpled cash, but that’s about it. Selfishness is an interesting concept because the way we treat others is, in fact, the way we are treating ourselves. How? Well, everything comes back full circle and what we put out eventually comes back to us–all of it. Yes, even that very thing you just thought up that you thought you were in the clear for. Hopefully, this prompts you to do better for people than you would like them to do for you. You’re doing for you when you do for them after all!
    GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO DO WELL.
    Giving gets bad PR. People cling onto their possessions and ideas. Death is a friendly reminder that we don’t truly own anything. Don’t you know you can’t have good relationships unless you’re giving? You can’t properly raise children unless you’re giving. You can’t work a job unless