VIBRANT PERSONALITY

Developing a vibrant personality requires, besides outward attractiveness, an even more important quality, which is called INNER CHARM or CHARISMA. A charm that comes from within.

The six (6) qualities that are listed as the characteristics of great actors and actresses are:

The first step in learning how to be a more attracting and stimulating personality is to examine and evaluate your presence to daily life.

The following are the ten (10) major requirements toward the development of a FINE personality:

We must learn how to make it function. We must acquire wisdom in addition to knowledge. Wisdom involves aims and purposes and ideals, which is even more than knowledge.

Wisdom involves character. Ideas and ideals are powerful determining factors in the development of personality and character.

"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be used much till they have been seasoned." says Oliver Wendell Holmes.

It is every person's inherent right to wish to advance in life's progress. Indeed, to progress constructively should be the desire and the principle urge of every man and woman's existence. Success depends greatly upon a magnetic, pleasing personality.

A personality is like the mechanical magnet. Someone has defined PERSONALITY as a balance perfection of a healthy body, an illumined mind, and controlled emotions.

That you build the personality to its fullest one must learn how to reach out and in and draw from within himself a strong unit of PERSONAL POWER. Here are the twelve (12) steps toward PERSONAL POWER :

A person is first observed through their physical appearance. People are likely to judge one first by their outward appearance. They form an impression of one by what they SEE before they hear one speak.

Most important of all is the silhouette beneath the outer clothes. POSTURE is the spine of an attractive figure. Develop a rhythymic walk, WHICH IS BALANCE IN MOTION, and one will develop grace in all his movements.

Standing
1. Head held high and over the middle of your shoulders.
2. Chin parallel to the floor
3. Shoulders even and pulled back a little
4. Arms resting easily at your sides with the palms turned towards your thighs
5. Feet pointing straight ahead about 4-6 inches apart
6. Pleasant composure on face

Walking
1. Head held high and over the middle of your shoulders
2. Chin parallel to the floor
3. Even steps with weight balanced on balls of feet
4. Swing arms freely in accordance with stride
5. Pleasant composure on face

Sitting
1. Head held high and over the middle of your shoulders
2. Chin parallel to the floor
3. Sit well over your hips

What is character ? "Character is higher than intellect." says Ralph Waldo Emerson. Walter Pitkin (American journalist) defines character by saying, "It is a web of habits which deal with oneself, with other people, and with affairs in which the needs and wants of people figure.
A firm character is a tightly woven web. It may be too austere for comfort, or cruel or insipid in its sense of value, but none the less it is firm. It knows what it wants and needs, and it knows how to get it."

That it is a web of habits that deal with oneself, with other people, and with affairs in which the needs and wants of people figure, we accept.

It is for us, however, left to strengthen this web. To make it firmer for good rather than for evil. Character grows in stature and fibre through useful contact with people and events.

At least five different theoretical approaches address the "why" question. That is, why are there individual differences. Evolutionary Psychology emphasizes universals of human behavior and attempts to explain individual variability in terms of alternative adaptive strategies. Behavior genetic approaches analyze the variation in behavior in terms of the complex interplay between genetic and environmental influences. Systematic work in biological theorizing has emphasized the continuity of behavior across species and searches for the biological underpinnings of temperament and complex behavior. Social cognitive theories emphasize the importance of socialization and the effect of cognitive processes to create one's unique patterning of behavior. Traditional psychoanalytic techniques, although not a major area of current personality theory, did have an influence in the theories developed throughout much of the 20th century. Ability is construed as the best one can do on a particular measure in a limited time (speed test) or with unlimited time (power test). Personality measures are estimates of average performance and typically include reports of preferences and estimates of what one normally does and how one perceives oneself and is perceived by others.