To keep their attention and gain their trust, you must make a great first impression. So if your goal is to get further ahead in your social or professional life, you need to get people to like you. Immediately. You need to be memorable. Today I'm sharing 10 surefire tips for nailing any first impression. Here's what we have coming up: Be on time and do your homework Wear the right uniform Greet people properly Make eye contact Assume they like you Get their name, remember it and say it correctly Control your body language Be a great listener Be open to talking about yourself Bring other people into the conversation Plus, the five mistakes you should avoid to make...
And every time they drop something fresh, we’re all ears. So this month we were in for a treat with not one, but three pieces of newness! But before we dig in, let’s take a few steps back to understand Heimplanet’s journey: after they introduced the Motion Series in 2017, with its rather active and lightweight approach, they wanted to focus on their urban travelers again. Back in 2013 they did the Monolith Series with a set of packs and bags which they pictured to be their Jack of all trades – covering all kinds of travel relevant to Heimplanet. Despite some of them being successful and much appreciated by customers and reviewers alike, they had to learn that a...
Please join Valerie Stivers and Hank Zona for a virtual wine tasting on Friday, May 15, at 6 P.M. on The Paris Review’s Instagram account. For more details, click here, or scroll to the bottom of the page. My hands smell like strawberries and chicken liver, and I’m drinking a Vernaccia, the “good white wine” of The Decameron. In the middle of cooking, I flip through my phone, scrolling through the orange banners announcing death tolls. It’s incongruous and heartbreaking. As a schoolchild, I used to thrill myself with the horror of the World Wars and spent hours in the library daydreaming over what epoch-defining disaster would happen to me. Vietnam was over. Nuclear fears were easing. It was the...
But I guess when furniture pieces need to withstand a variety of seasons and still look good year after year, it warrants a higher price tag. The truth can hurt…the wallet. But before we move on, watch how Em DIY’ed her patio before that famous beautiful tile went in (just wait for the ad to run first): Ok we’re back! SO because of that, I made it my mission this week to create an affordable accessories roundup post. Because while your outdoor furniture is built to last many many years, you just might want to switch up some throw pillows, add a rug or heck FINALLY get that fire pit you’ve always dreamed of. Doing those things should NOT have...
Now? Well, forget it. It’s like dating WrestleMania where every man is for himself. You might not just come out alive. Some people give up altogether and seek other forms of entertainment. But you are still here. So . . . I guess I may as well cover the next section of our Dater’s Guide which I promised two weeks ago. The Guide presents Dating 911! Welcome to Dating 2019, A Scammers Delight. A couple of weeks ago, I know I promised to do a whole topic on scammers out there in the world. But I felt like it wasn’t enough talking about why we kept repeating our mistakes. The first post talked about forces that were beyond our...
