Your Voice …….Passport to Success
65Your Voice .......Passport to Success
As an indelible impression your voice is like a fingerprint. It leaves a tattletale impression day after day.
Although the average person doesn't realize it, his voice is 15 % pf his Personality Appeal. By cultivation, his voice can become a finely tolled instrument for 100 % communication.
Remember that the human voice can be an instrument of charm. It can be vocal magic surrounding anyone who uses it effectively to create his Impression Circle.
Your Voice is a persuasive power..........use it !
An ugly voice terns people away as effectively as does a dirty body. Public relations status, and person-to-person relationships, are dependent upon the personality you present each day. Remember that your voice CAN be appealing. It CAN be persuasive if you utilize the unique power of using words to your advantage.
Your voice can be a stimulant. It can be a depressant, a hypnotic, or a press agent. It can calm people in pain or excite them. It can convince those who have a lot at stake to act against their better judgment. It can turn suggestion into command and elicit co operation when all other efforts have failed. It can convert to action. Your voice can be your power !
How does your voice actually affect people ?
Spoken words reveal attitudes. They spotlight a thought and the very tone of words may imply what words themselves do not say. Because 95% of all human beings misuse their voices, they often say what they have to say in manner they later regret. They misuse their voices and it is this misuse of tone, rather then content, which is so often misconstrued.
This means that a voice which is monotonous, lacks vitality, flows without end, is emotionless, carries negative inflections, or is scratchy or loud, is bound to be irritating to people. You simply don't get through when this happens.
No one can afford to be unconscious of the power and glory of the human voice in the bid for success. No one can afford to have people identify him through particularly irritating sounds.
If your voice is dull, people expect that you will be dull. If your voice is gravelly, rough or uncouth, people classify you a gravelly, rough or uncouth, and only the strongest of other personality facts in the Impression Circle can ever change this classification.
Because of this your voice can become a forbidding showcase when improperly used. Or, it can become a glorious route to success with people. So your voice, as part of your Personality Appeal, and a living part of your Impression Circle, is essential to success.
As a guide to avoiding the kids of speaking voices which antagonize people I have set up a charge indicating types of voices which people do not like. These are obnoxious vocal characteristics which hack holes in your Impression Circle.
Are You Harming your success chances with an Irritating Voice ?
The Kinds of Voices which annoy people :
- Apathetic Voices
- Booming voices
- Emotionless Voices
- Gutteral Voices
- Harsh Voices
- Hissing Voices
- Loud Voices
- Monotonous Voices
- Nasal Voices
- Rapid-speaking Voices
- Scratchy Voices
- Shrill Voices
- Very soft Voices
- Voices begging sympathy and whining.
- Voices filled with poor grammar
- Voices filled with slang and profanity.
- Voices without articulation.
- Voices without breath control
- Voices with downward inflections
- Words interspersed by gulping, smoking, eating, blowing, and so forth.
People become appeases, angry, gentle or violent, according to the sound of words. Through words they are motivated to act and react, and a person's enthusiasm for you and his attentiveness to what you are saying is keyed to the right use of words. There must be no distractions, no social static, to irritate the people with whom you would be a success.
