10 effective tips for improving your personality

The teenage period is a time of growth and development physically, emotionally and mentally. It is a time when the bedrock of your character is cemented beyond spurious changes. Do you want to build an irrepressible and confident personality? The following tips will help enhance your personality and boost the way people perceive you.

-Build your confidence and appreciate your worth

Well, the first step in improving your personality and profile is to for you to appreciate what you bring to the table. You need to have a solid grasp of your strengths and weaknesses. Knowing your strengths and weakness then brings about confidence as you are able to categorically demarcate and demand for the respect you are due. You need to come to terms with your weaknesses and while you work on eradicating them to the barest minimum, you need to avoid being weighed down by them. All great personalities are built on self-confidence. Without self-confidence, your journey to developing a better personality is over before it has even started. However, care should be taken as the line between self-confidence and arrogance is quite thin. 

-Learn public speaking

That everybody listens when a good orator speaks is no coincidence. The ability to communicate effectively to a large audience has always been tied to having a great personality. It has often been said that not everybody is equipped to speak in public but I beg to disagree. Every single human being can achieve at the very least, a functional ability to speak to large audiences. Build your public speaking ability by listening to motivational tapes and reading books on public speaking. Books by Dale Carneige are especially good to cure this most embarrassing of ills.

-Learn to listen

One of Abraham Lincoln’s greatest ability his the ability to genuinely listen and see reason with people. To achieve a greater personality, you need to develop a special ability to listen and sympathize with people. Luckily, it is not very hard to achieve if you put in the required effort. Learn to become genuinely interested in people and keep an open ear at all times.

-Learn to dress well

Dressing well means different things to a fashion diva, a pop artiste, a politician or a medical professional. However, dressing well is simply the art of making appearances that are well suited to the image you want people to see you representing. This explains the difference in its translation by different categories of people. Everybody has met somebody they refused to associate with based on the image they assumed they represented. You are first slated by the way you appear.

Dressing well does not necessarily involve getting designers and the latest trends in vogue or putting on expensive apparel. In fact, in certain circumstances, dressing expensively can send the wrong message. Dressing well has a contextual meaning; what you had on yesterday may not necessarily suit your purpose today. So, pay attention to your appearance to improve the way you are perceived.

-Improve personal interaction

As an adjunct to learning to listen, you need to also learn to interact positively in such a way to leave an indelible impression on people who associate with you. People who have come across individuals with excellent personalities report having an euphoric feeling while with them. Learn to contribute positively to conversation, learn social grace and etiquette and be wary of sounding dull and uninterested to people.

Many people also suffer from an inability to communicate with the opposite sex effectively as a result of a plethora of reasons. Learn to bridge this gap by building your own self-confidence and self esteem to record an improvement in your personality.

-Increase your knowledge base

Read and absorb information from diverse walks of life. Spread your interests over a wide range of subjects. You will be surprised to find out how many fields you may discover you have interests in. Read books and surf the internet to acquire both current and historical facts. A great personality is one with sufficient knowledge to share.

-Maintain healthy relationships

A popular saying emphasizes that we are mirror images of the friends we keep. In actual fact, we are what our friends are. Evaluate your goals and that of your friends, find out if they are even similar and take action appropriately. You can’t have an optimistic personality when you move around with pensive and skeptical friends. Build new relationships with people who can help in your journey to self-perfection.

-Learn an extra skill

Develop a skill (professional or otherwise). Take an interest in a marketable skill. It helps promote your brand, build your confidence and uphold your self-esteem. Skills abound for you to learn; MCing, baking, writing, teaching, providing web services among others. Having a skill makes you come across to people as being extra focused and a determined individual.

-Be health conscious

Having a great personality is no victory if you have poor health. Despite our health not being totally under our control, we can still play a huge part in ensuring we always operate as close to full health to possible. Excellent personal hygiene, regular checkups, eating well and exercising have been shown to have a direct uplifiting effect on health. Practise and engage in them to further boost your chances of good health.

-Pray

Learn to develop a relationship with God. Having the perception that God is on your side imbues great confidence and self-assurance, which are both vital in improving personality.