Honesty and openness. Honesty propels you to be true to yourself. It strips you bare of the glitter and the glamour. It makes you take off your mask. It allows you to bare your heart and soul. It leaves you open and vulnerable.
When you’re mind, heart and soul are open, you also open yourself up to the possibility of being happy. You let in everything that is good. You allow light to fill you. You allow love to rush in.
When you are honest with your emotions, you allow others to see the real you. You give others the permission to get to know the true you. Honesty allows your souls to connect. Happiness thrives in true and meaningful relationships.
Honesty and the choices that you make. When you are honest with yourself, you give yourself the power to decide for YOU and no one else! You stop waiting for other people to make you happy. You stop waiting for the “what ifs” to come true before you can allow yourself to be happy. You stop living for others and begin living for yourself.
Stop waiting for happiness to come to you someday. Decide to be happy, HERE, NOW. Every day that you wake up, decide to be happy. Your surroundings and the predicament you are in do not define your happiness. At every single moment, you are always given a choice. You have the freedom to choose one path over the other. You can choose to be happy or you can choose to be sad. It’s all up to you.
Be mindful of your thoughts and where they may lead you. Remind yourself to choose the path of happiness over others. Choose that which feels good, honest and true and give yourself permission to relish in it.
Honesty and your life force. Be honest with yourself and with the people around you. Stop hanging out with the wrong crowd simply because you think they can make you happy. Listen to what your heart is telling you. Your heart speaks only the truth. Its language is that of honesty and truthfulness. When you are not comfortable with the people surrounding you, it is your heart trying to reach out to you, reminding you that you are in the wrong place and with the wrong people.
You are alive and inside you flows the energy of life. If you are pulsing with positive energy, allowing yourself to be surrounded by negative people will only diminish your ability to manifest happiness. Cut yourself from the things, habits and people that are bringing you down. Let go of anything that makes you feel bad about yourself.
Choose to surround yourself with people who uplift and support you. Be with people who vibrate in the same frequency as yours. Imagine the amazing things that can happen if all of you, together, are vibrating with the same happy energy? Imagine all the goodness that you will attract! Imagine the positive changes that you in return, can manifest. There is strength and power in numbers. Make each person in your circle count. Make it a circle of love, kindness and happiness.
Honesty and courage. Don’t be afraid to live the life that you’ve always wanted. Live honestly and truthfully according to your heart’s whim. Don’t be scared to give yourself everything that you’ve ever wanted in life. It is yours for the taking. Don’t pretend that you don’t want it.
Being honest about what you want out of life and the relationships that you build around you will help you live a more meaningful and happier life. It gives you courage to seek that which you truly want. You don’t shy away from opportunities that you know will make you happy. It allows you to live openly and freely without limitations. You don’t have to pretend. You don’t have to fake it.
An honest life is a happy life. It is simple. It is pure. It is true. You wake up each day with the eagerness to face and embrace life. There is no need to put on a mask. You don’t need to cover up anything. It is what is. You are open, you are vulnerable, you are you. And life couldn’t be sweeter and happier when lived freely and generously.
Honesty and your definition of yourself. From as long as you can remember, you’ve gone through life with this picture in your head of who you are supposed to be. You look at yourself in the mirror and cringe at the sight of the person that you are now.
Every day that you wake up, you worry about how you can live up to other people’s expectation of you. You do your best to ignore the callings of your heart and try your best to stick to the picture of how your life “should be.” You compare yourself with everyone else’s picture and wonder how theirs seem to be better than yours?
Be honest about who you are and what you truly want in life. Let go of the who you are “supposed to be” and how your life “should be.” Stop adhering to the pictures that other people have drawn for you. Focus on the true you. Appreciate the awesome picture that is you –Un-retouched, unedited, and real.
Honesty and respect. How you treat yourself sends a strong message to others on how they should treat you in return. If you are honest about your thoughts, feelings, intentions and desires, you learn how to respect the capacity of your body, heart, mind and soul. And when you treat yourself with this much respect, you are also letting other people know that they too, must respect you.
Respect everything that you are—even that parts of you that you don’t really like sometimes. Be reminded that there is the divine in you. Treat your body, mind, heart and soul with the love, care, kindness and compassion that it deserves. Honor yourself by being honest with yourself.
The respect brought about by honesty is not that which is born out of fear and dread. It is a kind of respect that is evoked out of reverence. It is a kind of respect that honors you for who you truly are.
4 - Keeping Happiness
Understanding what happiness is and knowing how you can achieve it through honesty is not enough to sustain it all throughout your life. You must find activities that you can incorporate in your daily life to keep you happy. Below are some activities that are known to help keep the happy energy flowing. You don’t need to do all of them. Find one that appeals to you the most and stick to it and notice the change in you as the days go by:
Yoga. This seemingly exclusive and difficult practice is in fact one of the best ways to find and sustain happiness.
Often times, when people hear the word yoga, they think of complicated poses that only people with extreme flexibility can achieve. Many miss out on the true principles of yoga.
The practice of yoga aims to unite the body, mind and soul. This union is in itself what is called yoga. This is the goal of this practice and there are many paths that a yogi can take to achieve oneness. The poses (asanas), meditation and the breathing techniques (pranayama) are just some of the ways to help quiet the mind and find the connection to your body and soul.
Yoga practitioners are also invited to live a life that focuses on loving kindness compassion not just for one’s self but also for others. It involves taking care of your body, mind, heart and soul.
Yoga can help you see the true you—a person that is one with the universe and with everything that has life. It will reveal to you how you are entwined with the divine. That’s why every yoga practice ends with “Namaste” which means, “I bow to the Divine in you.”
Meditation. When your mind is quiet, you are able to hear the callings of your heart and soul. It is in this stillness that you can practice pure honesty.
When you are in a meditative state, you are able to turn off the noise and static from the outside world. And when your mind is quiet, you are able to listen and heed the call of the universe. A call that is attuned to your true purpose and calling.
Music. Allow your soul to speak. Music is the language of the soul. When you make music, the thinking stops and the feeling starts.
Sing your heart out. It doesn’t matter if you can carry a tune or not. Sing from your heart and sing from your soul. Allow your voice to float into the universe. Play an instrument if you can. And even if you are unable to do so, don’t deny yourself the right to enjoy music when you hear one.
No matter what language you speak, music will give you the power to connect with another soul. It knows no nationality, boundaries and time. It is eternal and it is pure. It is true. It is honest.
Writing. Writing is a form
of meditation. When you are writing, you are able to shift our focus to the present moment. It is a way to get to know you. Your thoughts and feelings become real when you write them down on paper.
Don’t be afraid to put on paper what is in your head and in your heart. Allow them to guide your hand and watch as your reality begins to unfold right before your eyes.
Playtime. Give yourself permission to be silly. Allow the child in you to come out and play.
Be amazed at the world. Dive into it with the enthusiasm and energy of a child. Find delight in the simple things and for once, let go of the grown up in you.
Find activities that you like. It can be a sport or a hobby. You don’t have to be good at it. You just have to love it enough to find joy in it.
Dance. Dance like no one is watching. Move with the wind. Dance every chance you get.
It doesn’t matter if you know the steps. You may even miss the beat and that’s okay. Make the moves up as you go. Allow your intuition to lead you and find bliss in the freedom to move.
Pay it forward. Give back to the universe and to the people around you a little piece of you. To be alive in this world is already a tremendous blessing and gift to have. Whether it is your money, help or time that you give, no matter how small it may seem, sharing a small part of that to world without expecting anything in return will bring you unexplainable happiness. Generosity breeds happiness.
Conclusion
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Making Good Impression
The incredible truth about how others see you, and how to build a long lasting, strong first impression that will transform your life
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This book contains proven methods and strategies on how to build a strong first impression that last and will lead you to a better life.
This book teaches you how to recognize the impressions you are making on others AND their effect on the way these people interact with you. This book will then guide you through the processes of TRANSFORMING those impressions into something that will leave others with a strong first impression. The magic of this book is that it will teach you how to make sure that those first impressions are always STRONG and POSITIVE whether that will be from a face-to-face encounter, a read through your profile or resume or a glance through your Facebook and Twitter accounts. The power and control you will have over the first impressions you leave behind will both be MIND-BOGGLING and LIFE-CHANGING.
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Table of Contents
1 -Fact About First Impressions
2 - Power of a First Impression
3 –Build -up Your Good First Impression
4 – Preparing and be on guard
5 – Making a great impression always stay
6 - Constant string of good impressions
Conclusion
1 - Fact About First Impressions
No matter how carefully you guard your reputation or craft your life and career, it can all come crashing down even just after the first impression. It may sound like an overstatement but, it is the truth. It happens.
Here are three very essential things to know about first impressions.
First Impressions Form Fast
Do you know how long it takes before that someone you’re with on a blind date figures out you’re not his or her type? Less than 2 minutes! What about that job interview? How long does it take before managers decide whether or not you are a good fit? Within the first 7 seconds of looking at your resume, 13 seconds after looking up your LinkedIn profile, 10 seconds of going through your Facebook Page and the first 30 seconds of the initial interview.
A West Coast radio station going through their poll records, discovered that parents out to determine whether a guy was good for their daughter took as much time as “half-way through dinner” in the 1950’s to “As soon as I saw what he was wearing to school” at the start of the Millennium.
It doesn’t take long for any type of first impression to form. Nowadays, you don’t even need a face-to-face encounter especially, with algorithms that can lift data from your online records (DMV, police, employment and even social media) and form opinions or virtual impressions in nanoseconds. And before you say, “But wait until they see me” understand that these virtual first impressions often determine whether a real-life encounter will be the next step.
Whether it’s a face-to-face encounter with a blind date, a job interview, or a post, tweet or a personality profile survey that you filled out ages ago, be sure that someone, possibly a future spouse, incoming boss, or mother-in-law, will pick it up and forming a first impression that will significantly affect the way they look at you.
First Impressions Last
This is the scary part.
In this world of facial recognition, factoids and sound bites, the algorithms that already exist to draw conclusions from all these known sources of data about you have become adept at formulating conclusions quickly about the character and personality of a person. And because these are known to have been drawn from facts, the accuracy and reliability is somewhat "spot on" to a certain degree that those who use it such as police, hiring managers, even blind-date seekers accept these without question. Therefore, when these good people go into their first meeting with you, they already have a first impression that is fairly difficult to challenge. In fact, in most cases, t
he reliance on that virtual first impression is so much that they would not bother to meet you at all, or worse, you get labeled as a suspect or tagged as a potential offender.
The hard part is once that is formed, the burden of proving that first impression false is heavy and solely on your shoulders. The uncomfortable truth is that not only is your window for establishing a good impression been reduced to minutes and seconds, it is also hard to remove, change or correct.
Should you care?
Contrary to the opinion that you shouldn’t care less about what other people think, you should.
Why?
First Impressions are Difficult to Change
That is correct. Like a deep rooted weed, an unfavorable first impression takes great effort to change.
Consider the following stories:
A young woman started out as a blogger with a New York wild streak as evidenced by pictures of herself acting crazy in late night parties. When she decided to become conservative and religious, people who only knew about her from her Facebook pictures, found it difficult to connect what she was then to who she was now. Even though the pictures were now deleted from her Facebook, they still continued to be a reminder of who she once was and kept going in the way of moving forward with her new-found lifestyle. She had to move west, drop a lot of friends and overhaul her Facebook page before the negative first impressions died out.
Another young woman who had tattoos running down her arms had a challenge finding a job inspite of glowing degrees in college. The first impressions after seeing them caused people to take her less seriously; leading to a lot of rejections from many firms causing her to seek less than desirable employment in order to survive.
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