About this lesson
Learn how to identify and eliminate the main cause of bad body language.
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Rather than give you a 100 hour course that
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is the equivalent of a PhD on body language, I wanna save you time.
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And I wanna help you focus on what is truly most important.
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There's one big problem that affects most people in business situations that
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hurts them with their body language.
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If you can address that one issue, you solve almost all your problems.
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Now, not every problem, there are particulars that can stand out
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in a certain situation that might hurt you.
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But I wanna focus on this one issue.
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The issue is if you're nervous, if you're uncomfortable.
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Because when you are nervous, your body reacts.
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We become in some situations like little bunnies, we freeze, we don't move.
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And all the things we do in normal conversation with friends, family members,
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colleagues we're comfortable with, we stop doing, we freeze.
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It's a preservation method that our body has.
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We think oh if we freeze, no one will see us and
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no one can jump out of the bushes and attack us and eat us.
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And unfortunately it's the exact worst body language you could use
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to make a business prospect, colleague, customer feel comfortable with you.
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Because we as human beings are wired to deal with a tell,
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if not in our head in our gut when someone is nervous,
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uncomfortable and wants to get away from us or fearful of us.
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So that's why its so important to address this issue.
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When you are in new situations, when you're talking to new customers, or
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new prospects.
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Or you're giving a speech to a group that's larger than
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what your used to speaking to, the natural thing is to be nervous.
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So that's why some of the most useless advice you'll ever get
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is when people say well just be yourself.
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Oh, you're gonna give a speech to 2,000 people, just be yourself.
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Well, if you don't speak to 2,000 people regularly,
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yourself being natural is like this.
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It's being scared, it's actually very natural to be scared
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in situations where you're uncertain.
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You're home alone at night and there's a wind storm and you hear creaks
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in the house and you're never usually home alone, you might be like this.
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You might pull the covers over your head, you're being natural,
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you're being natural in that situation.
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So, a lot of what we're gonna focus on in this course is not on how you could just
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be natural, but how you can be natural, when you are comfortable.
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And then to figure out exactly what you're doing here and
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do it in business situations where you're not comfortable.
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If you're giving a presentation and it's critically important to your business and
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you're speaking to a billionaire whose decision could make or
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break your company, guess what?
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It's completely natural to be nervous, to be scared,
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to be tense, to have your body tense up, your voice crack.
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Um's and uh's come through.
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So being natural in that situation isn't going to help you.
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What's going to help is figuring out how
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do you come across your best when you are completely relaxed.
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And then doing those things when you are giving the presentation to that
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billionaire or that most important client prospect who could make or
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break your entire business.
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So that's the number one thing to focus on.
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Yeah, there are all sorts of other little subtleties and
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we could spend 10,000 hours in this course going through every single
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case study example, but I want you to master what's most important.
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What's most important is to not do the things that
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everybody does when they are nervous and uncomfortable.
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Because freezing your hands, freezing your body,
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freezing your neck, speaking in monotone, speaking too quickly,
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these are all things that are completely natural to do.
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But it's going to make your audience, your prospects, your customers,
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feel that you're uncomfortable.
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And if they feel you're uncomfortable, they're gonna be uncomfortable.
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And everyone is uncomfortable and people are uncomfortable, sales don't get made,
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recommendations don't get made, promotions are not granted.
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So that's why we gotta spend a lot of our time helping you figure out
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how to come across your very best.
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The way you come across when you're talking to your three best friends
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over a beer or your favorite beverage in a relaxed situation.
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So, throughout everything else we do, remember that's really the goal,
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helping you come across completely comfortable, confident, and relaxed.
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That solves almost all body language problems, and
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it actually gets you to the point where people are gonna feel good about you.
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Therefore they'll be much more open and receptive to your messages.
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