It is often seen that the eating habits of your friends have a major influence on your eating habits. It is a common sight that when you are about to order some low calorie and healthy food, your friend orders some high calorie but tempting dish and you end up ordering the same. It has been proved that the eating habits of friends who are big eater rubs on to you.
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The finding of a recent study has revealed that religion can have a very profound influence in the life of an individual. It has been noted that people with religious beliefs are far more contended in their lives and have much better control over their lives compared to their counterparts. Religion can, at times, protect people from the shocks and disappointments of the daily lives. The people with religious beliefs are also at a lesser risk of suffering from psychological harms than the non-religious ones.
Sports have been existing in our society since time immemorial. They have evolved over the years and will, without a doubt, always continue to be a part of society. Sports have always had a positive effect on the society. Although, the professionalism in sports has brought along some negative effect recently but they in no way would be able to overshadow the positive impact which sports has in our society.
Ever thought why do we take so much time in choosing certain things in our daily life? Reason is simple, because the choices we make in our daily life has a direct influence in our lives. The only trouble is to choose from the various options available for things that you need to choose. However, if one is clear enough in mind about what one wants, there won’t be any problem in choosing the right thing.
Take for instance, if we go to buy a pair of jeans, we would consider things like what kind of jeans fit us best and what is the latest fashion in jeans. Taking these factors in mind, the jeans we would choose would have a direct influence in our daily life. As if it is in sync with the fashion, then people will consider you up-to-date with the latest trends.
If you think you can master the art of controlling people you are wrong, you will never be able to control people, you can just influence them. Whether we agree or not, we all wish to get the power or secret of influencing people at work. This is mainly because we want to progress at work by taking our works out from other people. So, what all is actually needed to influence people, read on to know about it.
The key to influence people depends on three main needs, including, symbolic rewards, security and material gains. Majority of people seek these three things and influencing them becomes easy if they get any one or all of these things from you at work. Now, let us elaborate these three things.
Symbolic rewards meaning praises or recognition. You will easily succeed in influencing anyone at work if you give the praise and recognition a person requires. This way the person feels special and obliged and in a way is influenced by you.
Listen, don’t you mind about some “dirty” methods of competitive activity? I will give you one from my practice.
This is just a business, nothing personal and eventually I had to do it.
One of competitive firms came on our city and arranged a presentation about its opening and I had to ruin their performance. I used one technique called “black questions”.
This is an example: The hall where presentation was going to be held was full of people (actually their potential clients). I was sitting in the front raw as an ordinary visitor.
When representatives of “X” company finished to speak and asked audience about questions I started with the following:
Dear Sirs. Your speech was impressive and well prepared, but let me ask you something on behalf of all our audience (u see, first of all I’ve voiced identification with all presented audience).
You was telling us that been your client is so good because “X” company has so many advantages etc., but you haven’t even mentioned about any potential difficulties of probable troubles which could take place in our following cooperation.
As everybody knows that it is not real to lead business without troubles or risks but you didn’t tell us frankly about it.
Why? Don’t you even know about these risks? Are you not competent? Or, which is much worse, you’ve concealed it with definite purpose! Haven’t you?
My dear readers, you can just only imagine what they said after that)
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