Blondes Prefer Gentlemen:The Art of Manliness - Personal Tutoring On Being Hunkaliciously Manly in the 21st Century by Dianne Hanks, the "Blonde"

Queen of makeovers Dianne Hanks launches a new series, "The Art of Being a Gentleman in the 21st Century" inspired by a free ebook someone brought to my attention. Get your own copy http://artofmanliness.com/wp-content/free_ebook.PDF

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We're going to have fun. Send me your concerns and your questions, guys. Ladies, pass this along and let's spread the love! Also, be sure to share with me what YOU love in a gentleman.

Queen of Makeovers Dianne Hanks launches Lesson 1 of the "Blondes Prefer Gentleman" series.

What does it take to be a gentleman? Why be a gentleman? What the the advantages?

There are many, but some include:

1) Being a gentleman earns you respect:
2) Being a gentleman earns you trust: when you are honest in your dealings, people entrust you with all kinds of confidences
3) Being a gentleman can help your career: potential employers like to choose gentlemen to represent their company or their product. How you carry yourself, how you're groomed, how you walk, how you sit, how you move and groom your hands
4) Being a gentleman makes you more attractive to quality women; true women love and demand a gentleman

Wikipedia defines a gentleman as a person whose manners are indicative of refinement and intelligence. Gentlemen are known as men who treat others, especially women, in a respectful manner.

Good news: Becoming a gentleman is not something you're born with, it's an acquired set of skills that must be learned, that means ANYONE can become one! Yea

Pinnacle examples of gentlemen:

Antonio Banderas in "Zorro"

Sean Connery as "James Bond"

Robert Wagner

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Get your own copy http://artofmanliness.com/wp-content/free_ebook.PDF Queen of Makeovers Dianne Hanks launches Lesson 2 of the "Blondes Prefer Gentleman" series "The Art of Manliness in the 21st Century.

Correspondence:
1)The Phone Call
2)Text Messages
3)Email
4)Snail Mail

Isn't it great to have options?!

1) The phone call: BE MINDFUL OF THE OTHER person by asking, after you've identified yourself:
"Is this a good time for you?" OR
"Do you have a quick minute?"
OR shoot off a quick text to ask if it's a good time to call

Don't stay on the phone excessively, especially if it's in the wee hours in the night/morning.

How to write a letter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbYAnBB7_Js

2) Text messages--be mindful of others' plans, ask if they are on an unlimited plan.

Don't send too many text messages from work.

Voice messages: Identify yourself and leave your number right away and again at the end.


A gentleman knows how to use the phone.

3)Email: Be creative, be brief, be artful, connect with your virtual connection to your art and music inside of you; things of beauty.

Thoughtfulness is what gentlemen are all about.

Don't use little abbreviations like LOL, ROFL, etc.

Don't EVER EVER use profanity

Don't use the little happy faces emoticons

Don't send an excessive amount of emails; be mindful of your recipient.

Learn to spell and use proper grammar, click the spellcheck.

Acknowledge all emails right away.

Be mindful that all the questions are answered.

Use a new paragraph.

Don't have run-on sentences.

Don't forward chain letters or off-colored jokes. EVER. Humor in poor taste is unbecoming of a gentleman.

4)Snail mail

Use fine stationery.

Handwrite your correspondence.

Don't put confetti in the letter.

The etiquette of a love letter:
http://www.cyberparent.com/love/lovel...




A great resource (FOR WOMEN) with a chapter on how a man uses the phone
http://www.amazon.com/Hes-Just-That-I...



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Every Gentleman understands and appreciates the value of communicating with flowers, along with the power of communicating and giving life around you beauty and power of flowers to communicate and give life.

It's appropriate to bring flowers to ANY occasion. For hints on what flowers mean, there are resources online to teach you.



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For a fun flowers personality quiz:

http://www.blogthings.com/whatdothefl...

For exquisite floral couture, my favorite floral artiste:
http://www.youtube.com/user/brassavolas

Blondes Prefer Gentlemen; The Art of Manliness with queen of makeovers Dianne Hanks. Wild Things.

A quote by Theodore Roosevelt reveals:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. "

He continues:
"Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world."

LOVE THAT! No milquetoast men, no, be a real man. Offer your strength.

A must-have remarkable book for men Wild At Heart by John Eldredge offers that the heart of a man is wild and needs to be in wilderness to renew his soul. DO IT!

My Sacred Crane:
Moments that light us up are few and far between and are worth cherishing and savouring. I know, because I had one myself the day before yesterday. If I may.....

I was on my daily walk, this time through a slightly different path, which took me along a creek nearby. After I reached the dead end and turned back around, a majestic crane was not 50 feet from me, staring at me. I stared back, and I stopped in reverence, a hush taking my very breath away.

Pristine and brilliant white, it's splendour overtook my emotions, and my appreciation for yet another of God's creatures spilled forth from my eyes. As I slowly reached to grab my phone to capture the memory on camera, it took flight, its four foot wing span evident as it flapped away, only to disappear from my mortal view.
I reflected on the sacred experience and continued crying, sat next to the creek and let the sun kiss my face as I closed my eyes and reached upward, drinking in the moment. Filled with gratitude, I marveled at how blessed I felt to have had such an experience.

The Asians that are replete in my community consider a certain radius wherein the crane dwells to be holy land, and I can appreciate why. I felt it my good fortune and an endowment of more good things to come.

Further, as I had paused to do some leg lunges and push ups back along the trail, a funeral cavalcade, led by a motorcycle cop, passed by on the street 100 feet behind me. There I was, after having had such a blessed moment affirming the beauty of life, struck by the contrast of its fragility, knowing the mourners that followed were experiencing a completely different reality than I. The depth of my humility and the depth of my happiness were magnified, imagining the grief of the people who no longer had this beloved one in their life to enjoy.

As my birthday was to be the next day, I considered it an early present from my Heavenly Father, acknowleging my existence and His evident love for me. That, plus the shiny coin I came across, and I knew this is to be MY year!

Queen of makeovers Dianne Hanks shares another lesson in her Blondes Prefer Gentlemen series, "The Art of Manliness" Intelligence and Profanity.

A provoking expose' on bad words, cussing, and profanity: ENJOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJC6-LMN4KU

Thanks to Zefanius, we have a scope on being a gentleman, regardless of whether a woman behaves like a lady or not. Yielding one's seat, for example on public transportation.

The Legend of Johnny Lingo, part 1: watch for the difference in how Mahana's father treats her vs. Johnny Lingo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-PLyy0XM3Y

You never know, but for abuse, neglect, poverty, or ignorance why a woman does not behave like a lady. Your treating her like one just might be the spark that ignites the desire in her to behave like the lady you ache inside for her to be.