Lifestyle Manners to Drive Success: The Witty Guide to Avoid Social Clangers

By Elthea Marden

How confident are you that you are practising and teaching the manners needed to succeed in life? 

Good manners are the tools for life that provide a charisma and presence wherever you are.

Learned and used well, such manners will ease you through the maze of social etiquette, making a successful future for you and your children ever more attainable.

Lifestyle Manners to Drive Success is an easy-to-read guide that will teach you the subtle art of social acceptance in any situation and will equip you with the confidence that removes the anxiety from new experiences.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Sep 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781398467071

Elthea Marden

Elthea Marden was educated by a governess in a cross-generational household that retained an old-world formality. Her education led her through the arts into business, law, and the sciences.   Travelling around the world, often as a sole traveller, drove and enhanced her curiosity on social etiquette and its correlation with success. Lifestyle Manners to Drive Success was the fruit borne from hours of social study, social interactions at every level in society and business, along with work as a social commentator.

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About the Author

Elthea Marden was educated by a governess in a cross-generational household that retained an old-world formality. Her education led her through the arts into business, law, and the sciences.

Travelling around the world, often as a sole traveller, drove and enhanced her curiosity on social etiquette and its correlation with success.

Lifestyle Manners to Drive Success was the fruit borne from hours of social study, social interactions at every level in society and business, along with work as a social commentator.

Dedication

Dedicated to my friend and co-conspirator, Helen Horner whose eye-rolling and laughter inspired me in every step of the way.

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Elthea Marden 2022

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Section 1

Chapter 1

Introduction

‘Manners Maketh Man’ wrote William Horman, a former headmaster at Eton School. Whilst the language he used might be outmoded in our society of convenience and instant gratification, the sentiment stands as a bastion of human civility.

There is a narrative that runs through Society about the decline in good manners and it is all too easy to blame the generation before ours. Perhaps it goes deeper than a simple generational difference and instead there is a lack of guidance and influence from All of us; a lack of knowledge in what good manners actually look like?

A good friend of mine on entering a restaurant with her two children, addressed them with a stern: Now, we’re going out so behave yourselves! And sure enough they didn’t heed the warning because she forgot to tell them what good behaviour actually comprises. Without a fundamental instruction in how to interact with those around us, how can a child or even an adult begin to understand politeness as it cannot all be left to instinct and intuition.

They were probably the biggest reason I put together an everyday approach to etiquette and manners, that is relatable and useable for everyone to make life better.

Why Manners Are Important?

They are not simply verbal acknowledgements; ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, but go far deeper into defining the kind of person who blends and enhances their presence seamlessly into any environment, making them an asset and their presence a real pleasure.

The impact of good manners is far-reaching, extending beyond immediate family and our social circles, but if practiced well, will seep into business connections, social activities and more intimate relationships. Boorish and unpolished language and behaviours are unpleasant to everyone and is unlikely to create the platform of welcome that will build bridges across language, status, race and gender.

This little guide is not an unwieldy set of directions for the elite of society or indeed those who strive to be part of