288 Personality<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n How do you (or anyone) show your personality?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your words carry \/broadcast only 10% of your personality.<\/p>\n Your Tone of Voice shows 35%<\/p>\n And your Body Language 55%<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ok. So?<\/p>\n Now that we are mostly communicating through emails, Twitter, Facebook and such…<\/p>\n where is your personality showing?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Saaay, you don’t think you are getting things done just by your words themselves, do you.<\/p>\n Say this:<\/p>\n I \u00a0 didn’t\u00a0\u00a0 say\u00a0\u00a0 he\u00a0\u00a0 stole\u00a0\u00a0 the\u00a0\u00a0 money.<\/p>\n Using just words with no tone of voice this sentence has over 10<\/strong> separate meanings \/messages! (see # 147<\/strong><\/a>) Determining which one depends on your Tone of Voice.<\/p>\n I <\/em><\/strong>didn’t say he stole the money<\/p>\n I didn’t say he stole<\/em><\/strong> the money<\/p>\n I didn’t say he stole the money<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n etc.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yet when sending email we transmit in the most basic form imaginable.<\/p>\n No Type style, no point size, no exclamations, no spacing, no italics, no underlining…<\/p>\n nothing that gives the reader a clue as to what “Tone” you want to add to what you say.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Is this your intention?<\/p>\n Because these forms of communication are simply not going away.<\/p>\n YOU have to change (gasp!!) if you want to improve your results using these basic tools of everyday life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Practice, practice<\/em>, practice<\/em><\/strong> just like you did with everything<\/span> else in your life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The excuse “Computers are new to me” will soon no longer work.<\/p>\n ————————–<\/p>\n These are related:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n #\u00a099<\/strong>\u00a0Perfection!<\/a> – 134<\/strong> Sand Bags & Bricks<\/a> – 215<\/strong> Knowing<\/a> – 222<\/strong> The Difference<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 288 Personality How do you (or anyone) show your personality? Your words carry \/broadcast only 10% of your personality. Your Tone of Voice shows 35% And your Body Language 55% Ok. So? Now that we are mostly communicating through emails, Twitter, Facebook and such… where is your personality showing? Saaay, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-communications","7":"category-limitations","8":"category-obstacles","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}