The Charisma Effect: How to Make a Powerful and Lasting Impression

Chapter 1. Aim

 

Strengthening your Charisma Effect starts with raising your level of self-awareness – that is knowing:

• who you are and what you stand for

• the effect you have on others

• the effect others have on you

• what is happening around you.

Raising self-awareness may sound daunting but the mirror work out (see page xx) was a start in that direction, making you more alert as to who you are and what others see in you.

You are being self-aware when you:

• can look at yourself coolly and objectively, and can probe and analyse the whole person, warts and all

• accept other people’s evaluation of you without becoming defensive or fearing a threat to the core of your being.

Developing your self-awareness, particularly what you are trying to achieve with your Charisma ...