Establishing long lasting relationships is the goal, to becoming more successful. When you’re not excited about what you’re doing, it shows. By projecting your passion, which is communicated through your attitude, allows you to be more attractive.
The words you speak reveals everything about who you are, and what you’re about. What you say is the foremost way of communicating your beliefs and attitude towards others.
Always think about what you’re about to say before speaking. Will it serve to build better relationships, construct a connection, or annoy.
Always consider saying something positive, or say nothing at all. What you say should reveal the core truth about what your mind is thinking, the message you’re wanting to portray.
If you try to mask this, it will show. You’ll come across as phony and disingenuous.
Altering Your Thinking Changes Your Attitude
What’s known is what your thoughts does, is influences how you act and feel. It commands the words you speak, along with dictating your body language.
Your thoughts become the filter that perceives how you view the world. By altering your thoughts, you automatically change your attitude.
Speak your thoughts everywhere you go. Make sure you show your best self, at all times.
Dress For Success
How you dress, the colours you wear communicates a lot about who you are. Find clothing that will accent your best features for the situation.
Make sure your clothes are properly tailored, trendy and ironed, concise for your body type. Develop appropriate fashion sense, select apparel that’s stylish and fits the image you’re wanting to display.
Consider how different colours makes you look and feel, and fits the particular day. Wear apparel you enjoy, as you’ll come across in a more powerful empowering way.
Although clothes won’t complete you, it speaks volumes about what you think about yourself.
Always Be Punctual
Always be on time for everything. Arrive on time for customer meetings, birthday parties, anything you do in your work and personal life. This shows you respect their time.
Respect is the foundation which creates long-term relationships, with clients and friends. Showing up on time, is the best way to prove to someone you care about them.
By keeping your commitments to others, you’re acknowledging them and their needs. Caring about others should be your number one priority, since that’s how you build integrity.
Your party will understand how important you are to them, if you are punctual. So avoid making a dramatic ego statement by always being late.
Return Communication As Soon As Possible
Make it a point to answer all emails and texts, when ASAP appropriate. Extend the courtesy of acknowledging messages, by immediately getting back to them.
Reply to an email, just to thank them. “Like” posts on social media as it just takes a second. Wish someone a “Happy Birthday” to show them you care.
Never allow others to wonder whether you’ve received their email/text or not.
If you don’t reply promptly, you’re perceived as not being on top of things, aren’t detail oriented, arrogant or aloof.
Never hesitate when it comes to communication as it’s a simple courtesy. Prioritize your time by doing so several times a day, just to solely read and reply to emails and texts.
Promptly Return Calls
In this age of instant digital communication, emails and texts are sent to relay messages that aren’t really urgent.
What actual phone calls now represent, are situations which needs to be addressed immediately.
What responding promptly to voicemail does is displays an attitude you value serving others. You respect their time, along with their concerns and deadlines.
In today’s accelerating competitive environment, if people don’t get the immediate attention they’re seeking, they’ll take it personally and avoid you.
So give phone calls the priority and urgency they deserve, and return them as soon as possible.
Always Take Responsibility
Your attitude is revealed through the responsibilities you take upon yourself. Others can sense once you’ve taken full responsibility for your actions, along with the resulting outcome.
What’s communicated is an aura of strength, confidence and leadership, which makes you more attractive to those you want to communicate with.
Think of ways on how you can step up to take more responsibility for your actions, and the results will show.
Take Positive Action
Anyone who’s successful are action takers. They don’t wait for life to happen to them, they make life happen.
What taking action does, is communicates an attitude of excitement and accomplishment, which others find inviting and alluring.
Taking action displays to everyone you’re a leader, you want to move things forward, you can and will make things happen.
You display confidence once you do what needs to be done. What everyone respects, is someone who takes risks, those who are movers and shakers.
Mindful Body Language
Along with the words you speak, body language is the most obvious way of showing how you communicate your attitude towards others. Consider yourself to be a walking billboard.
Everything from your facial gesture, your posture, how you sit, how you position your arms and legs. Doing so communicates volumes regarding who you are, and what your attitude is.
Observe those who exhibits positive welcoming body language that’s open, and then emulate them.
Consciously become mindful of your own body language, and create your own distinct style, which represents you the best.
Smile And Be Happy
A genuine inviting smile that’s not unnerving, is the universal sign you are a warm welcoming and friendly human.
There’s nothing that warms the heart of others more, which melts tension making a situation better, or endears them towards you, than a smile.
So adopt and practice smiling when needed. Incorporate it as a habit.
Not only does a smile affect others, it’s also an automatic signal to your brain you’re happy.
People are attracted to others who makes them feel good. Start attracting people, by illuminating yourself by wearing a genuine smile.