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Introduction
We already talked about the fifth principle of Napoleon Hill's 17 principles of success is the Pleasing Personality. Our personality can be our greatest asset or liability. Napoleon Hill explained how 29 major factors shape our personality and we can modify our personality at any given point in time. In our last article, we discussed 10 factors and now let's talk about rest of the factors.29 Factors of a Pleasing Personality
11. Pleasing Tone of Voice: We can make or break a day of others by just our way of speaking. Our words may be acidic or floral. We must try to speak in more appropriate way during our conversations.12. Facial Expression and the Habit of Smiling: Our single smile can make other’s day. Always try to make positive facial expressions as these expressions can attract others and inappropriate expressions can repel them away.
13. Tolerance: We have to accept that everyone have different perspectives towards life and we must accept this fact. Tolerance is the most important attribute of person working in successful mastermind alliance.
14. A Keen Sense of Humor: Good laugh can release any type of pressure or stress. People used to like personalities with good sense of humour.
15. A Keen Sense of Justice: Everyone likes the fairness and people appreciate fair justice.
16. Appropriateness of Words: Our tongue can make our fortune or it can open the door of hell for us. Appropriateness of words is very important to build a pleasing personality.
17. Effective Speech: Effective speech and appropriate usage of words complement each other. People like personalities who present their speeches in an effective way.
18. Control of the Emotions: Many people say that they have very volatile emotions but emotions can also be controlled with practice.
19. Alertness of Interest: Our alertness of mind is very important as people like personalities who show genuine interest. People with alertness of mind can create big opportunities by small leads.
21. Appropriateness of Dress: We know the swimsuits are meant to be used while swimming and corporate suits are required in corporate setups. We can become successful by understanding this principle.
22. Control of Temper: We make bad decisions when we lose our temper. Wait and delay your decisions during such instances.
23. Hope and Ambition: Hope and ambition ignite a spark within us. This is a fuel of successful people.
24. Temperance: We must balance everything in our life and understand excess of anything can wreck havoc. Consumption of any resource in moderation is very important.
25. Humility of the Heart: We must not express pride for our achievements. Our nature of gratitude can win hearts of people.
26. Effective Showmanship: We must show our work to seniors at appropriate time so that they can join our vision. Effective people manage the show with the help of advance planning.
27. Clean Sportsmanship: There’s a famous saying that "sunshine every time makes a desert." We have to understand that success and failures are the part of our life. Learn from failures and show gratitude for successes .
28. Ability to Shake Hands Properly: This is a very effective tool when combined with proper eye contact. If you are weak at this quality then start practicing it more often.
29. Personal Magnetism: We can create magnetic personality by being empathetic towards others. People who understand other's feelings have very magnetic personality.
Summary
If you do not have pleasing personality and people used to shy away from you then you have to search for relevant causes. We must also understand that we can make our personality very pleasant by inculcating 29 factors mentioned earlier in this article. Pleasing personality can do wonders for you and can make you rich. Andrew Carnegie used to pay 75000 USD as an annual compensation to his company’s CEO Charles Schwab and additional 1 million USD as a bonus for his pleasing personality that created harmonious atmosphere in his company. You can also create your market value by having a pleasing personality.All the best.
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