Raise your hand if you have sent a “Thank You” message in the last five days.
Oh, I see, I am addressing a group of very sad people; people to whom nobody has done a favor, given a referral or invited to join a group in quite a while; people who didn’t receive an answer when they asked an acquaintance to give their daughter some tips for their college interview; or who haven’t needed a substitute for their carpool; people to whom nobody has written a LinkedIn comment. I suppose those people exist.
But anyone else can grab a pen or a laptop or a smartphone, and write a short and simple message and know for sure that somebody is having a better day because they were acknowledged.