VOICES Love, recognition and appreciation

Many years ago, I remember hearing this question posed to a group of people going through some training, “How often should you tell your spouse that you love them?” Take a moment to consider what your response might be, and I will share the answer a little later in this column.

In speaking with a friend of mine who is a salesperson, he shared with me that he recently lost one of his best accounts. When I asked him what happened, he didn’t blame his company, the competition, the economy or anything else. He took full responsibility for not paying enough attention to them once the agreement was signed, he took the relationship for granted, never showing the customer how grateful he was that they trusted him with their business.

ere is another story that I will share that came from a woman I know that I think we can all relate to. As she re ected on her relationship with her daughter, she said that she thought she was doing everything right when it came to raising her daughter, but like most of us

Letter To The Editor

Tubing in Golden

In my almost 70 years, I’ve traveled all over the country. I’ve seen many, many river towns that do NOT have tubing. I’ve seen river towns that have tubers oating through town. What I have never seen, are tubers on city streets with their tubes and rafts except here at home in Golden! ere was a time when tubing wasn’t allowed here and a time when the creek was closed due to E. Coli — yuck!

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Do you have your answers ready to the question of how often we should tell our spouses that we love them? e answer is this, before someone else does.

How often should we tell or show our customers how much we love and appreciate them? How often should we tell our children how much we love them and cherish them? How often should we let our friends know how much they mean to us? How often should we tell the people who report to us how grateful we are for all that they do? e answer of course to each one of these questions is, before someone else does.

A spouse who feels unloved will eventually turn to someone else for love. A customer who isn’t feeling the love from a company will bring their business elsewhere. A child who isn’t receiving love, recognition or time from us will be left to their own to decide where they can feel like they are wanted or where they belong. Even our closest friends will start to drift away if they feel ignored or feel like it is a onesided friendship. And we know how hard it is to nd great people to join our team, and how hard it is to retain top talent, we know that people usually don’t leave the company, they leave their leader or manager. Money isn’t the reason they leave either, it’s usually because they feel under appreciated.

I have asked the same question to many groups over the years when I was conducting sales training or leadership training, so I have heard many of the responses that may have been running through your mind as you considered your response, every day, three times a day, all the time, every time you part company and every time you see each other again, morning noon and night, and many others. And these are all great answers, and when we can internalize the thought around, “Before someone else does,” we will more than likely increase our frequency for showing love and appreciation for those that matter most to us.

Are you making sure that the people around you are feeling loved and appreciated? Or was this a good reminder that even if we think we are saying it enough, we might be able to show it and say it a little bit more often? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail. com and when we can let others know how much we love them before anyone else does, it really will be a better than good life.

Michael Norton is an author, a personal and professional coach, consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator of individuals and businesses, working with organizations and associations across multiple industries.

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To subscribe call 303-566-4100 e City doesn’t control the water, but they do control the sidewalks and possibly the riverbanks. In 2022, Englewood passed an ordinance making it illegal to lie down on or across city sidewalks. Why doesn’t the City of Golden at least compromise and ban tubes/rafts on our sidewalks? Allow the residents to enjoy their creek path that was meant for walking and cycling. Why not designate an entry and exit point with no creek path walking in postal mail. Put the words “letter to the editor” in the email subject line.

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CORINNE WESTEMAN Community Editor cwesteman@coloradocommunitymedia.com between on the library side? en, tubers can tube and foot tra c isn’t interrupted. ey can drive/bus back to the entry point.

I don’t like the tubing because I want to enjoy the beauty of the creek, a place to walk, a parking spot at the library and no litter! I do understand that many people want to tube, but I wonder when we are inundated with tubers, how many actually live in and pay newspaper.

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The city expresses so much concern for the “chaos” that a few festivals bring a couple of days a year, but thinks nothing of the danger and months of chaos tubing brings to those who try to enjoy the creek path and use it for exercise and navigating around the town they live in! There is a compromise to this issue.

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