Beauty makes a good first impression, charm is what is remembered about a person. Here are 7 ways to be charming. What is it to be charming? It is to be a wonderful blend of grace, compassion, kindness, confidence and good manners.
Here are 7 tips to get you started on how to be charming and make meaningful impressions. In later blogs we will explore these items in much more detail.
1) Be well groomed, this will help you make a good first impression. It takes less than 30 seconds for someone to make assumptions about who you are. Your appearance and how you carry yourself is the first clue they are given.
2) Human kindness and genuine interest towards the people you meet. Media and Internet do not focus much on the element of kindness. Yet it is that attribute that is often most remembered about an individual. I manage a restaurant and many times the kitchen is closed and staff have gone home and some hungry traveller approaches the door. Instead of turning them away we offer something simple not from the menu... something we make. Usually they come back and tell others about our kindness. Years later they come back and tell the story of what we did... not what we served them but of our kindness and conversation.
3)Learn how to engage in active conversation. Be well informed and be interested rather than be interesting.
4) Honour your word and be trustworthy. When we strip all else from a human being all that is left is their word and honour. Be honourable.
5) Learn table manners. Knowing your cutlery and side plates may seem silly until you are at a formal event and use someone else's bread dish or fork.
6) Be a gracious guest. Your host is offering what they have to you, even if it is humble appreciate their generosity.
7) Be humble. Self absorbed individuals are ugly. People that give off an air of confidence but do not focus on themselves and their belongings are considered attractive by many.
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