The Old-Fashioned Habits That Make People Respect An Older Woman

🌸 Not Done Yet: style, confidence and a life of your own after 60 https://dianehollis.com/ For fifteen years Mrs. Lorraine Pruitt came into my shop every other Thursday at ten o'clock. Not around ten. Ten. When she walked through the door the whole room changed: the teenagers at the register stood up straighter, and I'd find myself smoothing my blouse. She wasn't rich and she wasn't stern. She was a retired schoolteacher in a town of four thousand, with more respect than anybody I've known. It took me years to see it wasn't one thing. It was a handful of plain old habits she never let go of. In this one I'll walk you through the old-fashioned habits that make people respect an older woman: ⏰ Being on time, and handwritten thank-you notes in the actual mail 📛 Remembering names and using them, and getting dressed every day for wherever you're going 🤐 Not leading with the medical report, keeping your word on the small things, and saying it once 🤝 Keeping what people tell you, being gracious to people who can't do a thing for you, and never running yourself down for your age …and the secret underneath all of them: people mostly treat you the way you've quietly told them to. Pick one, do it for two weeks, and watch what shifts around you. If style, confidence and a life of your own sound good to you, subscribe and stick around. 🌷 Who's the woman you knew who carried herself like this? Tell me down in the comments. #over60 #womenover60 #agingwell #etiquette #oldfashioned #confidenceafter60 #secondbloom #lifeafter60 #gracefulaging