Book Review The Power of Nice: Conquering the World with Kindness by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval

Many of you have heard of the National Best Selling Book called "The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness". I read the book because I am a bzzagent. I get to try new products for free as long as I tell others about the product after I use it. Well, I loved this book. The principle of being nice works more than just in the business world which is what this book focus's on. I wanted to go further with the concept and give examples of how being nice can conquer the whole world, and not just business.

The first place you want to start is with your family. The next time your child throws a temper tantrum say something nice to them and see what happens. You see being nice will always through the person off guard. I tried this with my daughter and it works. She starts her tantrum and she expected me to play into it and yell at her for her attitude, but instead I complimented her on the work she had done earlier that day. What happened? She stopped dead in her tracks and didn't have anything else to say.

Next, you want to conquer your enemies. I am giving you a real example here. My 7 year old came home from school with a list of names this girl had been calling her that day. The girl was really being mean to her. At first I wanted to contact the teacher, but after I calmed down my daughter and I decided to try kindness. I asked my daughter to find something nice she could say to the girl when she was being mean. The next day my daughter came home and reported that after she said something nice the girl apologized for the way she had been treating my daughter and they are now friends.

Did you know this concept is in the Bible too? Proverbs 25:21-22 says, "If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee." When you are nice to your enemies they will not know how to react. It will stop them dead in their tracks and will force them to look at the way they have been acting. They are stuck with their words. Lot's of times that is all it takes to get their attention and see them change completely.