The Art of Dealing with Co-Workers!

• Enhance your appearance: A huge amount of your presence is determined by your looks. Look at some of your role models (you know, the person you’ve always wanted to be) and see what they’re wearing. Copy and if possible, improve that! Get a trendy haircut, clip your nails, get a nice perfume, shave or get a nice trimmed look. By looking good you’ll start feeling more secure which makes this step work in two ways.
• Enhance your body: Although this is hard for many people, this step is crucial to enhance your appearance. If people see an athletic body, they’ll automatically start having more respect because of your devotion towards yourself! Try building your muscles and shape while maintaining a health weight. Again, this will stimulate your self-esteem and therefore works in two ways.
• Enhance your mind: Have you always wanted to be able to respond faster and smarten? Then start practicing! Your response to everyday comments and questions is the business card for your mind. People around you get a taste of the way you think and feel by the very answers you provide them. There are several ways to improve this ability; however the best way to do this is in a safe environment with the persons you love. Try talking to your friends about several subjects, strongly advocating your thoughts and opinions with an enthusiastic tone of voice and determination with everything you say. This way you will practice your ability to react fast, so that your answer faster than other people. Also you will learn to speak with the convincing power. You wouldn’t believe how fast people tend to agree with people that seem to have a clue while they initially had another opinion themselves. By achieving this you will change other people’s reactions instead of them changing you!
• Enhance your soul: This is pretty much in addition to enhancing your mind. Practice being determined and steadfast in your beliefs. Never EVER start to doubt yourself because of any influence but your own! There is a reason why you generate a belief or opinion which may be constructed differently than other people, but you’re equally smart like everyone is. The real difference is, you have to believe more in your opinions than the other person does in his/her opinion. This will most likely start some discussions at first. These are slippery ice and caution is needed to not look stupid in the end. At first, never go into discussion with more than one person at the same time until you feel very secure you can convince them. Most of the times you will not be able to convince multiple persons that share an opinion other than yours. This can be proactively countered by talking your opinion onto them before they can formulate their own. Again, be aware not to appear ignorant and stupid and avoid ranting on and on while distancing yourself from others by advocating your opinions too strongly. I would say that enhancing your soul is something more advanced than the former three tips.
• Last but not least: Try not to care, at all! Although this may sound kind of strange, chances are you care too much about how others think about you. This will create a clumsy and over-sensitive personality that probably isn’t who you really are. Just don’t care about what they think of you. They’re not your life companions. Eventually they will disappear from your life and completely forget about your existence. As should you forget about them, the minute you go home, every day!

I hope my article has provided you with some help in having a more fulfilling day at work. Good luck and remember, you’re not alone out there!