This document provides tips for maximizing your first impression when meeting someone new. It emphasizes the importance of nonverbal communication, noting that 55% of communication comes from body language, 38% from tone of voice, and only 7% from words. The key things to do include smiling, making eye contact, having an open posture, introducing yourself, and finding common ground. Having an enthusiastic, motivated, sincere, and curious attitude will make a better first impression than coming across as angry, boring, resentful, or impatient.

1. Maximize Your First Impression

2. Connecting with other people is and will always be the world’s number one pursuit.

5. As long as you are thinking and breathing, you are communicating.

8. What is the difference between delightful or frightful when it comes to maximizing your first impression?

15. What is the single most important thing you can do to maximize your first impressions?

19. The secret to maximizing your first impression? Think before you speak!

20. Two easy steps: Conversation And Communicating

23. IN THE END We make a living by what we get, We make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

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