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Self Empowerment Techniques by Using Persuasive Language

Written by Mervyn Goh

Topic: Communication Skills and TrainingPublished January 19, 2011
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Persuasive Language – Convince mer
In our everyday conversation, you are always engaged with the persuasion process no matter what you are doing. You will learn to appreciate the importance of the basic techniques of using persuasive language to success. Let’s go through the empowering techniques.

1. The way you put your words bits and pieces together.

If you’re trying to make someone feel more relaxing and comfortable with you, you will want to employ the use of more informal language.

If you’re trying to impress someone, a formal kind of sentence structure will produce the better results for you.

You must identify the person who you are addressing and what they will be seeking for when you are speaking. Be careful too, because this method can also backfire when you aren’t careful with the words that you are using. You will need to become comfortable with what you are saying in order to show that you are confident in what you are trying to tell them.

2. The Art of “Mirroring”

This art involves making use of the mannerisms, facial expressions, hand gestures, and language of the other party you are trying to persuade in order to build a rapport as fast as possible.

3. Using “because” in your speech

Another essential method of persuasive spoken language is to properly use the word “because” in your speech or conversation. Don’t look down on this tiny simple word; it makes a difference by adding it when making a request or conveying a desire.

Just to share an example on how we can apply this technique

Instead of saying “Can I please borrow your car for the weekend? It would really be a big help to me.” It will be more persuasive by saying “Can I please borrow your car for the weekend, because it would really help me out a lot”.

Using “because” helps when it comes to learning how to persuade people as it bring across sub-consciously to the other party a much more convincing signal, and also largely assists to create empathy and therefore acceptance from the people you are trying to persuade.

Persuasion is in reality about what you say and the way you say and interpret it. If you take the effort and time to fully understand your audience as well as what you want to achieve, you will be definitely be successful.

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“Succeed does not come to you, you have to go to it” Using this philosophy, I decided to create this self help website to push myself to achieve self empowerment and also to motivate all of my friends out there who are reading and staying with me throughout this empowering journey.

More about me…
I am born in the island of Millionaires, guess where? It is Singapore, just a little tiny ret dot in the world but had achieved incredible results in a short 30 years with the highest percentage of millionaires here. Do you want to be a Millionaire? “Of course!” is the reply of most people but how many people can achieve it? You might be telling yourself that all these millionaires are either born with a silver spoon in their month with wealthy parents or just that they are very lucky to be successful. “How lucky they are? How I wish I have what they I have?”

I can tell you here, “You are wrong!” How do you define luck? For me, I will define luck as “LUCK = OPPORTUNITY + ACTION”. So I will always bear this in mind and getting prepared for the opportunity and take massive action when it arises. This will be the mindset of the millionaire.

For me, I might not be a millionaire now, but working progressively towards this goal. “Dream big and take baby steps” is my strategy. My ultimate goal is to achieve personal growth and financial growth. With this strong desire in mind, I am taking action every day to empower myself to change my mindset from a victim to winner one.

Remember this in mind, “You will never FAIL unless you QUIT”.

Do join me in this enriching journey and empower yourself to achieve anything you want in life.

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