Friday, July 28, 2006
Make yourself appear anxiety-free!
You can appear relaxed and confident even when you really don’t feel at ease at all.
Just imitate yourself on a confident day. Here is how to do it:
• Anxious people look at one person or one side of the room. Speak to one or two people for a sentence or two and move on to another two for the next sentence or idea. Appear anxiety-free by practicing this technique at every meeting you attend.
• Articulate all sounds in all words, especially completing the consonants at ends of words.
• People who are scared speak fast to be done quickly. Listeners can’t absorb their information and judge the speaker as nervous. Slow down in spite of your fears.
• Use American business-loud volume. Americans speak more loudly than other cultures. When people have a difficult time hearing you, they will stop listening. They have enough to do and don’t want to spend energy to try to hear you.
You can appear relaxed and confident even when you really don’t feel at ease at all.
Just imitate yourself on a confident day. Here is how to do it:
• Anxious people look at one person or one side of the room. Speak to one or two people for a sentence or two and move on to another two for the next sentence or idea. Appear anxiety-free by practicing this technique at every meeting you attend.
• Articulate all sounds in all words, especially completing the consonants at ends of words.
• People who are scared speak fast to be done quickly. Listeners can’t absorb their information and judge the speaker as nervous. Slow down in spite of your fears.
• Use American business-loud volume. Americans speak more loudly than other cultures. When people have a difficult time hearing you, they will stop listening. They have enough to do and don’t want to spend energy to try to hear you.
