Sunday, December 30, 2012

Looking For A Post modern Matchmaker?

 Tawkify!
 

Charlee's Tips For Tawkifiers

1. How to make Charlee's Tawkify Cocktail:
1 cup red wine
1/4 cup vodka
2 tbsp. sugar
1 whole vanilla bean stalk
1 whole cinnamon bean stalk

2. Twenty minutes before you're due to pick up the phone, make the cocktail.

3. Sit down, sip, and relax the 101 muscles of your face.

4. This is where your expression manifests, it's very emotional, and even if you're not meeting someone face-to-face your expression and posture will affect how you feel and communicate.

5. After you relax the chin muscles, the cheeks, around the mouth, around the eyes, the nose, and the forehead, then focus on a feeling inside of yourself that is like a substance of all that you love about yourself, and let that expression come into your face and animate it. This will give you a better starting-point for expressing and communicating.

6. Don't be too aloof—if you wanted to gain the attention of someone who responds to coldness, then you're fishing in a sea of sick fish. We want healthy ones, here!

7. Don't be overly giving of yourself yet, but be reasonably generous with your attention—an interested attitude—a warm radiance of attention is what attracts people.

8. It's a good space to get to know people. Be available and warm, but don't push so far in the person backs away.

9. Speak slowly and let your emotion color your speech. When I got back to New York from France one summer when I was 21, my old boyfriend came by for tea. I was so used to speaking in slow, articulated, (with a slight exaggeration in the "feeling" behind it for toning effect) English with the Parisians who couldn't suffer my hacked French, that it remained a habit for a while after I returned. "This is the best time I can remember having in YEARS!" my ex said, with a peculiarly renewed interest in me. Later I asked him why he enjoyed my company so much when all I did was offer him tea and ordinary conversation. He said I spoke so nicely--so slowly and clearly--that he was enchanted and felt the power of the exchange. I have tried to remember to slow down and enunciate since then. "It made you sound more intelligent," he said!

10. Remember people's hearts are at stake here—be honest and try to be kind.

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