It isn’t easy to be a gentleman. It involves the constant attention of one’s self and understanding of the feelings and perceptions of others. A gentleman is persistent, intelligent, courteous, and ahead of the curve.
Here are our best 40 ideas for the contemporary gentlemen. Designed to enhance your day to day life; from wellness, relationship, manners, to just simply feeling.
- When out socially, make a conscious effort to avoid looking at your cell phone.
- Keep your car vacuumed and free of trash. You never know who you’ll offer to drive home.
- Nurture your hobbies.
- Good grooming is important.
- Be kind to people working in the service industry.
- Be generous to your savings account, and frugal with your credit card.
- Be aware of your body language.
- The people that gossip to you also gossip about you.
- Act warmly towards people even if it doesn’t come naturally. It will.
- Take the opportunities for fun when they come along.
- If ever feeling envious, remember that success is an iceberg.
- Consume less alcohol than those around you.
- Practice making promises. Practice keeping them. You are now dependable.
- Eat more green things.
- Throw out the socks with holes.
- Don’t dwell.
- Use less product than the bottle says.
- Keep exes off of your contact list and Facebook.
- A man’s scent is an important calling card.
- Manscaping doesn’t just occur below the belt.
- Take a multi-vitamin.
- Always be aware of your posture.
- Spend more money on less things. Quality is always the better choice.
- Become friends with navy. There is more than black, brown, and grey.
- When giving compliments, always pay attention to where the persons’ effort was made, and praise that. Superficial compliments are forgettable. A woman has heard ‘you’re beautiful‘ before.
- Always be in control of your anger.
- Be generous in small ways. Small gifts or tokens, remembering things that are important to others, reaching out.
- Listen more than you speak.
- Always be reading a book.
- Have important conversations early, before they weigh on you.
- Travel more.
- If you aren’t their priority don’t keep them as yours.
- When people are talking passionately, keep your differing opinion to yourself.
- Do things that scare you. Often.
- Find something you appreciate in every person you meet.
- A gentleman recycles.
- Work extra hard for the things you want. Work less hard for the things you need.
- Sadness is an emotion that will pass.
- Smile more.
- Love the person you are, but always strive to improve.
