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What you are about to read here, is the energetic experience of networking.
Have you ever walked into a room full of people, and feel drained? Have you experienced standing in a room full of people, and suddenly someone enters and all heads turn to look that person? It is all about energy and attraction.
So how can you manage your energy when you network?
First of all, be clear about what your business is all about. Be clear about what your product or service is, and your target customer. Your energies are more focused if your product or service range is narrow, and if you have a specific niche.
Second Cheap Josh Jones Jersey , be clear about why you are at a networking event. Are you there to network for fun, or network for potential business opportunities? When you are clear that you are networking for potential business opportunities, you will be able to recognize them when they come, and deal with them accordingly.
Third, let go of all expectations of results. When you hang on to expectations, you will be desperate for business. People can feel desperation, and they are repelled by it. Afterall Cheap Kenny Clark Jersey , most people do not like others to hard sell them. Then there's the energy of lack, of wanting because you do not have what you desire. The energy of lack attracts lack, as like attracts like. What does business success means to you? Think beyond power and influence, as well as money and the things you will be able to buy with it. Think in the end, after all that's been done, how does it feel? Visualize in your mind and feel with your heart the great feeling of having your needs and wants satisfied. People will be attracted to this positive feeling. Make sure you develop and retain this feeling before you arrive at a networking event.
Fourth, dress for the occasion. Be professional in your dressing Cheap Jamaal Williams Jersey , and good mannerisms will follow. What do you want to convey? A neutral colour suit conveys a message of conservatism and trustworthiness. Depending on the nature of your business and the networking event, you may be able to play up your suit by adding a coloured item, such as a coloured shirt, tie or scarf. Clothing and colours are rapport builders. If you are networking with a conservative crowd, stay with darks and neutrals so that you are in rapport with them. If you are in a more relaxed crowd, throw in some reds, yellows and purples.
What happens when you are clear about your business? offerings and your target market Cheap Kevin King Jersey , free of expectations of results while feeling wonderful, and looking your part? Okay ? add in the 30 seconds infomercials, handshakes and the standard procedures. Something magical happens. People will be drawn to you because you are attractive. Now, be ready to recognize people who are your prospective customers.
What's the alternative to making decisions?
Allowing someone else, or circumstances, to make them for you.
And that is giving up control of your life. That's giving up all power to your life to other people or circumstance. And that will make you miserable
It reminds me of walking through a wonderful food buffet where you could have anything you want -- 0 calories! -- and allowing someone else to decide what you took on your plate. Unacceptable!
So when faced with decision anxiety, is the alternative ? giving up all control to others or circumstance ? the preferred method? Definitely not. No matter how difficult the decision Cheap Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Jersey , making it yourself gives you some modicum of control.
On the flip side, of course, it also gives you the responsibility, and therefore you can't blame anyone else.
Let's consider that. Does it make you feel better to blame someone else? For example, you have a really bad haircut, and you decide it's the hairstylist fault because she talked you into it. Ok, so now you've correctly affixed the blame -- do you still have a bad haircut? So what did it accomplish? Nothing.
Instead Cheap Randall Cobb Jersey , consider this: You have a bad haircut because you thought this was the style that you wanted, but now you see that it's not for you. You still have the haircut, but since you've accepted your part in it, it empowers you ? instead of making you a victim to it.
Being a victim to a decision emasculates you. Being a participator in a decision empowers you.
To reduce anxiety for your decisions, keep this in mind:
1. Stop looking for a prediction of the future. There's a difference in making a decision and looking for a prediction. There is likely to be a risk in most any decision more complicated than deciding on a type of dessert. Things change, people change, ideas change Cheap Mike Daniels Jersey , desires change. The decision is made on what you know, what you believe, what direction you want to go in. The future cannot be predicted. Don't let that stop you.
2. Be as informed as possible before making a decision. Do what you need to do, but try to be realistic about it. For example, if you tried to read every article on decision anxiety, you'd be 100 years old before you finished ? not much help, there Cheap Clay Matthews Jersey , huh. So if you find yourself procrastinating, give yourself a time limit --?I will read 50 different articles, and talk to 10 people, and decide by 5:00 pm on Thursday.?
3. Realize that very few things are set in stone. Maybe you have lots of things you want to do in your life, and you just seem to make a decision on what to do or how to do them all. This is ?analysis-paralysis?. Instead, remind yourself that focusing on one thing right now doesn't mean that you're giving up others. It simply means that you have decided to get started on one project, with the realization that you can do the others at any time you choose.