Daily Tip: Charismatic Body Language Evaluation

Sup, guys? This is Charlie from Charisma on Command, and I want to give you a Charisma tip of the day. Try to do one of these every single day and keep them very short so you can act on them. This first one is something that I've been really interested in lately. It's body language and posture, something that I've been working on. And what I want you to do is start with a body language posture diagnostic. To do that, you're going to need two pens, two pencils, one of each. I happen to have one of each. What you're going to do is you're going to shake out your body, get really comfortable, and then just grip the pen and pencil like this and just let your arm fall as they would naturally. Don't try to posture, don't try to stand in a special way. So now that you have them here, what I want you to do is notice are you holding them in such a way that they would intersect? Meaning that if I were to extend my arms out, this pen and this pencil would eventually cross paths. That is indicative that I do not have correct shoulder alignment. What you actually want, if you hold them, you see these are facing in, is to turn your shoulders out like this. It's really subtle. Turn your shoulders out so that they are parallel or even slightly open, such they would never cross. If I were to hold my shoulders, I can see that these don't cross. Now, this is important for a couple reasons. First, because when people walk into a room and they just have that sense that, like, eyes are on them, people can see them, it's often due to the way that they carry themselves, which is literally their posture. And one of the biggest things that we have in our day and age is we hunch over the computer. We've got a lot of stuff that keeps us in this sort of mode. So when we stand up, we maintain some of that hunch. And the people that open it up, that spread it it out immediately get broader. They open up their chest, they open up their neck, and that is a clear indication that they are just someone to be noticed and seen. Lift your chin, you open your chest. That gets you that sort of charismatic presence very, very, very quickly. So something to work on. Every single step you take throughout your day, whether you're in front of the computer, just notice, where are my shoulders? If I were to put two pencils in them, would they stay like this? Tomorrow I'll give you another tip that will actually help you in your workouts so that you don't over develop your chest and under develop your back so that you don't constantly think, where are my shoulders? Where are my shoulders? Where are my shoulders? You're just going to drop your arms naturally. And because you've been lifting in a certain way, your natural posture will be one that is open and more charismatic. So that's the tip of the day. Subscribe to get more out.