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And how do you give out different emotions than your mood?
I might not do it tomorrow, but tomorrow I will try
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You're not sending out different emotions, but different signals. The best (easiest) example is when you're mad at something. Let's say that you've spent all morning on a report, but some of the numbers don't jive. You WANT it done, you're tired of the interruptions, and you just can't focus. You are thinking "The next person that bothers me BETTER be wearing a bullet-proof vest." That WILL come through unless you change it. For me, it would be thinking "The next person obviously doesn't know that I'm frustrated, so instead of jumping their shit, I'm gonna try to recruit them to help." At that point when the next person does come to me, most often, they will ask how I'm doing. That's when I politely (non agressively) inform them of my problems.
Now inside, you're still ticked off, but outside, you are constructively letting others know how you feel without sending out negative feelings, AND you are possibly engaging someone else's help. It could be they have information that could help you, or them simply saying "I'm sorry I caught you at a bad time, I'll check in later." At very least, they've provided a short distraction and allowed your brain a short "time out" from the frustration. In any case, they've helped, and you didn't send out the wrong vibe.
As far as masking confidence, what better way than to simply have confidence? When you aren't feeling confident, that means that you don't feel that you can handle the situation at hand. I call bullshit on that. You can handle ANYTHING. You can either stop, think it through, come up with a solution and do it. Or you can realize that this is out of your scope and still help by recruiting someone with more ability to help. Most people are actually quite thankful when you say "I'm sorry, I don't know much about this, but Fred does, let me introduce you." Either way, you dealt with the situation confidentally. The only way you will not pull this off (in the eyes of other people) is if you try to tackle it and later have to admit that you didn't have a clue about how to do "it". Only take on stuff that you can at very least show some improvement, all others seek other help.
I hope that his doesn't sound too much like Dr. Phil, but I am not just writing this because I "think" it works, I "know" it does for me. I hope that you can get some mileage out of it. Good luck!