Confidence! Why would you want to look confident? Well of course, this is one of the most important skills that we need to acquire. A little bit of confidence makes a difference in our daily situations. So it’s time to give preference to yourself and let’s have a look on some tips that will help you to make yourself look confident.
Make your body language speak for you: One of the most important skills I would like you share with you that to look confident you need to make your body language to speak for you. Now imagine while giving a speech if the speaker’s have a slouch body language will you be having interest to listen on his or her speech. Yes it is true 80% of the first impression comes from your body language. And it is been said that always a good first impression creates a positive feedback for you. If your postures are not right if you are having dim face people will not like to talk with you. So try to have good posture which will reflect to your confidence in your looks and let the people get interested to your speech. Another thing which you really need to keep in mind to maintain a good eye contact with whom you are talking and another important thing is to use your hand while speaking as using hands while speaking will enhance your verbal statement. And also give smile while speaking as it is very much important to give a comfort zone to others with whom you are talking. If you are having a flat face while speaking, will not be work for you. So most importantly keep these things in your mind and make sure to have a good body language in a conversation which will speak for you.
Slow down your nervousness: The next thing you need to keep in mind is to get slow down. Well if you feel little nervous while conversing with others or in a meeting talking to your clients or even talking over phone with someone, if you feel nervous you tend to speak very fast, your voice goes up few notes and you start mumbling and rumbling and then what ever you says does not make a sense to the person who is listening to you. So it is a time to calm down take a deep breath use poses between sentences will be helpful for you. When you speak slowly you will be able to gather your thoughts and you will be able to come out more clearly and make the other person understand what you are trying to say. Because if you get nervous and tend to speak too fast people will fail to understand you. So take a deep breath, calm down relax and then speak.
Look good and feel good: The next thing is that to develop a confident life style. Now how could you do this? Well go with the concept look good and feel good, the first step is that to maintain a good hygiene. Now people would go to like you if you smell bad? Would you likely to come out as a stinky person. No, people will not going to have a chat with you, people will not be interested in talking to you. So it is important to maintain a good hygiene, it is important to you to take a shower daily, keep your nails and hair very neat and tidy. So you would come out as a very confident person. Another thing you need to work on is maintain your health. And how could you do that? Well you need to sleep well and eat healthy food. Eating too much of junk food shows up on your face. And you are not going to look that great and that hit your confidence, because if you not look great how could you look confident! So maintain your hygiene, maintain a good health so that you can come out as a confident personality.
Get out of your head: Finally it is the time to get out of your head. Well it means when you are little nervous and you don’t know what to say you feel nervous and that anxiety shows up on your face. And that is only because we have little tinny lizard that get activated in our brains. And these lizards are fully responsible for your fear and the negativity comes in your mind and also the anxiety that shows up. So stop thinking what others think about you or talk about you. It is important for you to feel confident from inner side. And if that confidence shows up things will be much better. So don’t care, don’t bother too much about other people. Just come out as a confident person. Deactivated these tiny lizards which are troubling you too much. And how could you do this? Well couple of example can help you work on this. When you have meeting or presentation, many people keep practising till the very last moments. Well you need to quit doing that, if you think that you have rehearse well, you have practice well for this meeting or presentation then you need get busy in some other works, need to be occupy by some others things. Then just go ahead for the meeting or the presentation. By this way you would come out as a very confident person. There would be no nervousness, no anxiety, and no fear. Another way is the moments when you have find a person with whom you think you can converse with, go and approach him immediately and have a conversation with him. Because if you give time to yourself, then those lizards will be activated and your nervousness will come on your face. So don’t think so much just go ahead and have a conversation with others.
Talk to people as much as possible: The last thing what I would like to share with you is to seek the opportunity to talk more. Yes I love to talk very much and that is the reason why I always encourage people to talk as much as possible. Now you can start having conversation with the stranger and of course to have some meaningful conversation. And to do so you can start practicing or work on some topics that you would like to converse with other people. As much as you are talking you will be more confident. Another thing you can do is when you are in office don’t stick yourself on your desk. Start to take a short break, move around, talk with other colleagues, make a good rapport with other people. This will also help you to gain little more of confidence. After all when you are talking with others, making conversation people will go to like it. But make sure you are having a meaningful conversation. So go ahead grab that opportunity to have a talk with more people.
Sumit Pathak
Its a chance to develop yourself through this guidance….
madhumita
Thanks Sumit….