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Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Identify confident people whom you admire and respect and notice what they do differently to project such confidence. Learn by observing role models.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Walk the talk and project confidence. If at first you don’t feel confident, fake it until you make it.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Yes, learning curves can be painful, exhausting, trying, scary, and intimidating. How did you learn to ride a bike? One pedal, one balance, one turn, and one step at a time.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Confidence is not a goal or a final ending point where you arrive and then stop once you reach it. Rather, it is the satisfaction and reward you achieve by stretching to, and beyond, the best of your abilities.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Building self-confidence is like building a muscle. Your confidence grows in response to your intensity of usage and the level of performance you require from it. If you don’t use it, you may lose it. Stretch, flex, life, and build!

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

You will build confidence by continuing to put yourself into new and innovative situations where you can learn new skills, grow your education, test your strengths, and improve your abilities.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Steer clear of negativity and set boundaries so that when people bring it on, you can engage your force-field to deflect their distracting energy.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

As you jump new hurdles, you gain greater confidence. Confidence can be achieved like any other practiced skill.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Just because you may not feel confident about doing something now does not mean you will not master it later with ease.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Building confidence is an ongoing process and something that can be accomplished over time.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

\“Self-confident people are mindful about spending their time, energy, and interests on things that truly matter.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Just because you don't know how to do something now does not mean you can't learn how to do it later.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

If you are lacking confidence in something, just keep trying and don’t give up.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Nurture a balanced perspective and don’t “sweat the small stuff.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Self-confident people don’t make their self-esteem, self-image, happiness, or self-confidence dependent on another person’s approval, validation, or acceptance.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Self-confident people are proud of their accomplishments, but can remain humble without bragging.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Self-confident people face their fears head-on and are willing to take risks.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Self-confident people tend to be optimistic thinkers and focus on the positives.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Charisma and charm are endearing qualities which go hand in hand to make others feel “lighter, happier, and a little in love” when they are around you.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

People with the gift of charm exude a delightful demeanor—an attractive likability that enwraps you in their warmth.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

When they are authentically engaged, their positive impressions create memorable moments and leave a lasting impact. Physical beauty becomes irrelevant because their exuberance and engagement bring out the beauty in you.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

People who exude genuine charm & charisma seem to possess a heightened sensitivity to the feelings of others—delivering gentle manners, gracious compliments, and sincere interest.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

They emanate an essence of caring, love, and compassion towards the people they know, and generously extend their aura to the new people they encounter.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Their engaging manner is grounded in consideration as they seek to get along well with others. People who exhibit charisma and charm are also said to be alluring, bewitching, captivating, magnetic, fascinating, enchanting, and seductive.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Charisma (presence, poise, magnetism) and charm (enchantment, attraction, fascination) are behaviors which can be learned and practiced.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

There are differing opinions as to whether charisma and charm are innate qualities which we are born with or learned personality styles. I believe it is a combination of both. Young children demonstrate a propensity for this enthusiasm. However, smart adults realize that they can get further in life when they develop these special traits.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

These people do exist and are a pleasure to know. Their keen communication skills are attentive to what you want, what you are thinking, saying, or not saying. They want to hear how you are and what you’ve been up to.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

The key is to keep charisma and charm positive and underpinned with sincere and good intentions.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

While it may seem to be a mysterious, ineffable quality—charisma is enhanced and enriched by a person’s attitude and confidence, their aims and optimism, expressive body language, and natural effervescence.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Your charisma and charm can make your moments more memorable for amazing first impressions.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

What do confidence and command look like when you see them? Moving one step past a healthy self-esteem, they project an air of authority, respect, and deliberate intention.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Confidence is silent, cool, self-assurance.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Developing a commanding presence is essential for leadership and a powerful impact.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

There can be a fine line between being confident and cocky.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

True confidence is not something that can always be determined by a first impression. It may take a few interactions to detect whether a person is full of false bravado or if they are the "real McCoy.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Their confidence gives those they lead the assurance that their words and their actions are reliable.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don’t. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Even something as simple as ending a sentence with the tone of a question mark rather than a period can diminish a person’s authority and credibility.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

In our natural world, it is the strongest of the species that claim their space, seek out new territories, explore their surroundings, and learn how to survive and thrive. It is those same qualities that enable us to apply confidence and command to transcend the mediocre and achieve outstanding results.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

When you feel low self-confidence, it is usually the result of the negative thoughts your inner critic whispers in the darkness of your mind.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

When your inner critic undermines your confidence, inner conflict, anxiety, and agitation take over. It tells you that you are not good enough, smart enough, handsome enough, worthy enough, or basically just plain NOT enough. It takes a toll on your self-confidence, doesn’t it?

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

If your self-talk leans toward the negative, the continual bashing will become debilitating

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Notice when negativity spins in your head and disrupt it immediately before it has a chance to take hold and stick.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Even the smartest and most successful of people will experience lower self-confidence occasionally, but the difference is that they deliberately shift out of it and refuse to stay there.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Confidence is silent, humble self-assurance. Moving one step past a healthy self-esteem, confidence projects an air of authority, trust, and respect—a commanding, respected presence.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Self-confident people Inspire confidence in others they would much rather build people up than tear them down.

Matshona Dhliwayo -

A woman’s elegance will charm you for days,her beauty will charm you for weeks,her grace will charm you for years,and her virtue will charm you for a lifetime.

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