A challenge – Get the MAXIMUM!

I know a way for you to get maximum positive results for a very, very small amount of effort and I challenge you …

… to try this. Do it the very next time you get a hunt gift, group gift, or any kinda quality gift straight from the item’s creator.

Want to GET THE MAXIMUM good out of minimum effort? *puts on wise old teacher voice* Read on, young hunthopper. *hurts throat, stops doing bad impersonations*

Want to GET THE MAXIMUM good out of minimum effort? … then say “Thank you”.

Today one of my alts was hunting in a very famous SL shoe store. My mini-map showed an avatar in the sky over the store, and Phoenix told me it was the owner. Did you know that in Phoenix you can hover your cursor over any avi on the minimap to get their name and profile? I shot him an IM saying “Hi! I’m doing the Coffee Hunt. Thank you for the hunt gift!”

He replied that I was the very first person ever to thank him for a hunt gift. After giving away literally thousands of items from his product line, not one person had thanked him until today.

So therein lies my challenge. I’m not asking you to spend a lot of effort. When you “buy” a FREEBIE(!) the dialog box tells you who it came from. Is that person standing there? Check your Av radar or just spin around and read the doggone names hovering over peoples heads! Thats not much work. If you want to go one tiny step farther, identify dots on the minimap as well.

If you find the person who was nice enough to GIVE you the fruits of their labor, thank them with a short friendly note – even if the avatar is marked “away”. Say it in IM or say it in open chat, no matter – just say it! No need to wait around for an answer, creators are often busy in a thousand other ways and not watching chat. Thats ok, they’ll read it eventually. Whether or not they get the chance to reply, you can know that you have improved the world in that moment. You’ve improved someone’s day and someone’s life, and that has ripple effects which cannot be measured. It gets you the MAXIMUM good for minimum effort.

Are you up to the challenge? Try it next time. Hell, it just may feel good! It may even feel good enough to do more than once.