It’s the little things that count…
🙄 Swaying – when you talk to friends/colleagues or on stage.
😬 Reacting to every phone ping – while you’re in a meeting / dinner / any event.
🙄 Putting your hands in your hair – retying a pony tail for the 7th time, or putting your hair behind your ears for the 9th time, or rubbing the top of your head with both hands smoothing down your already smoothed down hair.
🙄 Rocking on your feet doing a subtle heal to toe maneuver.
😵💫 Using the Illy Family Words too often – including “actually”, “literally”, “honestly” and “basically”.
😱 Stringing sentences together without taking a breath – versus using the Power of the Pause. By pausing you create more attention to what you want others to remember.
🤯 Standing / Sitting with bad posture – try to walk, stand and sit with your back straight with good eye contact. This one is hard to do! Blame our screen lives. We live crunched over. Please try to stand / sit tall to show presence.
➜ Full disclosure… I am guilty of some of these super tiny annoying things too.
✅ The key is to figure out what you’re doing and try to make super tiny strides.
© 2024 Karen Cortell Reisman, Speak For Yourself® CEO. All rights reserved.
Great reminder! Yes, I am guilty of a couple of these annoying things, too. Yet, I cringe when I ess or hear others doing it!
Hi Kay – Ha! We all do these things. I’m a culprit of putting hair behind my ears. AAGGHH. Let’s try to be mindful of these annoying little habits! Good luck. Great to hear from you.
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” Stephen King.
Harry – that is hysterical. I love that Stephen King quote! Great to hear from you.
Tom- Always wonderful to hear from you. Your suggestions are not falling on deaf ears. However I am really good a the ‘sway’. The reminder of change will be good for me.
Ha! We are all good at The Sway! That’s how it ended up on my tiny annoying list. Tom, so good to hear from you! Thanks for commenting.