The Art of the Compliment: Using Kind Words with Grace and Style

“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”–Mark Twain

“More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.”–Robert Smith Surtees

Let Chrisie Matheson show you how a few well-chosen words can elicit smiles, inspire happiness, transform moods, and turn a bad day into a good one.

Compliments are wonderful and powerful, but we don’t nearly use them enough. They can strengthen relationships and family ties, nurture romantic love, and improve work situations. Here is a book that can make you better at compliments, and relationships of all kinds. Chapters include:

• Compliments 101
• The secret guide to compliments: listen up
• Working the compliment
• Random acts of compliments
• On insincerity
• Thanks, but no thanks: backhanded compliments
• And much more!

Maybe you have given a lot of thought to compliments; more likely you have not. They are a tool that should be in your relationship toolbox. And this is the complete how-to guide.