Hi, I'm Matthew Hussey, welcome to Love Life. It's a privilege to be able to offer you

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ready for a big transformation and you want to do it now? You want to reinvent your career

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me. I'm going to tell you exactly how to do just that at the end of today's show. So

make sure you stay tuned. First, let's get to today's episode.

Today we are going to be talking about the four tips to mastering the art of charm. I'm

going to sum them up real quick now and then we're going to go through a couple of examples

for them. So I've written down four words. Smile, listen, contribute and comfort. Let's

start with the first one. Smile. Now I'm not going to spend a long time on this one

because we all know it is kind of cliche and people would say, what? I'm not going to

walk around like a smiling goon the whole time. But the truth is if we want to convey

a certain emotion and approachability to other people, we do have to smile because

they only know what they see. They don't know what we're feeling on the inside. They

just know what expression is on our face and is that inviting or not. So when you see

someone, when you meet someone, I want you to actually smile even before you've got

to them. Now once you actually do start speaking to that person, that's where listen, contribute

and comfort come in. Now listening is really about more than just nodding your head and

of course nodding your head is extremely important. But it's also about making those

understanding noises. And it sounds crazy, but you know, those little tiny subtle things

where you go, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Oh, you know, those little moments and varying them up

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