YOUR Air of Success=?ISO-8859-1?B?rSA=?=Manifest Moments=?ISO-8859-1?B?gQ==?=, Issue 19

Last week I had the opportunity to participate in a beginners acting class. What I learned gave me serious pause for thought about life, and the results we bring upon ourselves.

The first exercise we did required us to each walk around the room with a high ranking air, then a low rank air. It was impressive to see how quickly everyone was able to assume an air with no coaching at all.

Then 12 people were secretly given card with a number or name, such as king, queen or 1, 2, 3, etc. The lower numbered people were asked to walk as if they were lowest rank in society, and the King/Queen were to walk as if in highest rank. No words were to be used.

The rest of us watched, and were asked to shout out ranks for each person. Then the organizers lined the 12 people up according to what we shouted out. At the end, the organizer went down the line and asked each of the 12 to read out the card given to them a few minutes earlier.

What do you think happened? What percentage right were we as an audience? Remember, the 12 were all non-professional actors. Most had no acting experience.

Well, here’s the answer, and here’s what gave me serious pause for thought about our own lives...

We as the audience were 100% correct about the rank placement!!! “How could that be?” I pondered. My hair almost stood on end.

We know that how we project ourselves has an impact on others, but I never dreamed in a million years that it was THAT strong, or that we had the ability to project it so accurately. Imagine it – if this group of 12 non-professional actors, could instantly project themselves as a certain rank – be it a 2, or 5 or 6 or king - we must be doing this unconsciously every day. We must surely be projecting the rank we feel ourselves every moment of the day.

What impact does this have on our lives?

From this we can conclude that it’s HUGE. How we project ourselves impacts our results on everything – whether we ask for a raise, or ask a new client for business, or anything else in life!!! You name it – however you project yourself has ENORMOUS impact on your results AND more importantly - YOU HAVE THE POWER TO PROJECT YOURSELF ANY WAY YOU DESIRE, as proven by the exercises above!

3 MINUTE FOCUS TIP: Stop now and decide how you want to project yourself. Then step out there and do it. It takes no training at all. We already have it stored in our psyches. Just use it.