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Optimal Impact

“When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to life.” Sasha Azevedo (American Actress, Athlete and Model)

I was pondering earlier today about the many ways you can make an IMPACT.

The first question is of course “impact on what or whom”, which is a very good question to ask. I’m really talking about making a positive impact on other people – be it in business, in personal relationships or even (especially?!) in intimate relationships.

To explore the different areas, I found it helpful to break this down into the impact on the senses (apologies for the pseudo NLP):

  • Visually there’s your appearance – your posture, your facial expressions, your body language , your clothes (if any!), accessories, presentation slides (if any – presumably not for intimate relationships!),  positioning (definitely for intimate relationships!) etc
  • From an auditory perspective there’s the quality of your voice – clarity, pitch, speed, tone, variety etc. and knowing when NOT to use your voice – listening to others. There is also the words you use – the stories you tell – the wisdom you impart, the information you provide or the romance you infuse.
  • How you feel emotionally about the situation will impact your behaviour which will impact others’ behaviours, as will how you feel physically (steady now!)
  • And then there’s smell: industries are built around smells for good reason – the powerful impact they can have and the covert impact they can have [I should invent a phrase for this. How about covert olfactosis? No, sounds more like a disease!]
  • Finally, taste – making an impact through cooking or through your choice of a good restaurant, or good wine perhaps. It always amazes me how supremely sensitive our taste is and yet 99.9% of us lack the vocabulary to describe all the different flavours – unless of course we see what we’re eating, but that’s cheating!

I’m planning to cover off each of these areas in forthcoming blogs to provide you with some great tips to optimise your impact on others – in your personal life and in business - to get the results you want in life! [I'm not saying intimate isn't one of my areas of expertise, I just need to narrow things down a bit!]

It’s very raw, but I feel an e-book/mp3 coming-on!!

Let me know if there’s anything (on IMPACT) you’d like me to cover off – and no crash test dummies suggestions!

Martin

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September 23rd, 2009 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)

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