Have Fun

Thursday, November 25th, 2010 at 7:18 pm

If you plan on succeeding in this industry, you need to accept real fast that you are in the people attraction business. If you’re not having fun you won’t be able to attract people to you or your business. Now, I’m not saying that every single day will be fun because that would be misleading. However, I am saying that you need to enjoy the process and find a way to have fun. Think about it, would you follow you?

Be the attraction!

Social and people skills can be really helpful with that. Spending the last years behind the computer, you will see where now my weakness is, people. Why do they not think like me? A very good training place are networking events. My confidence to speak on this events grew over time. It won’t happen over night.

It really has to become a habit to talk to people. I easily fall back into the old trap, hiding behind the computer and communicating only via email.

So, how can this be fun? Listen to the person first, then adjust. Find something in common, that is really not so difficult. Leave the dark humour at home, at least when you meet people the first time. It can go just sooo wrong, trust me on this

Make people feel good and important. They easily open up and they like to be around you. Meeting people once is not enough to stick in their heads. Turn up to the meetings again, talk to the same people and you might even find something new about them.

Being around positive people can be really uplifting. However, ground yourself again and back to work. There is a difference between social networking and business networking. You have to draw the line here. And yes, work can be fun