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Begin with a Smile
A smile relaxes both you
and the audience. It helps to chase away nervousness. Showing a smile in
your face hides your nervousness. When you smile, you look more relaxed
and confident, and when you are confident, people are more inclined to
believe what you say.
Dress Professionally
Appropriate dressing is
very important. A well-dressed and groomed appearance can do wonders for
that first impression. Keep yourself fit in your dressing. Now is not
exactly the time to make a fashion statement, so a tastefully-chosen
professional outfit, with suitable accessories like a hand-bag or
brief-case should be fine. Make yourself comfortable in the dress.
Create in Your Mind
Much of our time is spent
habitually visualizing what may go wrong in a future situation. This may
increase your nervousness. It can also give you the results you imagined
- or feared - through self-fulfilling predictions. If you think you will
fail, then you are making it a whole lot harder for yourself to succeed.
Imagining in an
optimistic way is definitely a more useful and pleasant way to spend
some time with your imagination. Now, you may think that visualizing
this way is just improbable, but seeing in a pessimistic way is just as
improbable. Either way, you are imagining what may happen in a possible
future scenario. Doing it in a negative way may just feel more realistic
because that's what people around you are doing or because it's what
you've been doing every day for the last few years.
Here are some handy
instructions for you when you have an upcoming meeting / interview: -
Visualize how great the
events will unfold - see and hear it - and also how great will you feel
at this meeting.
See yourself smiling,
being positive, open and having a great time.
See the excellent outcome
in your mind. Then release that by visualizing this, it has already
happened, that the meeting is over with the desired result.
This is surprisingly
effective and will get you into a good and relaxed mood before even
stepping into the first, second or twentieth meeting.
Recall natural sceneries
and rejoice yourself.
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