Developing a vibrant
personality requires, besides outward
attractiveness, an even more important quality,
which is called INNER
CHARM or CHARISMA.
A
charm that comes from within.
It is the most sought
for
quality from New York to Hollywood. Sometimes it
is known as PERSONAL
MAGNETISM. This is what
producers and directors are constantly searching
for in the people they meet. INNER CHARM - PERSONAL MAGNETISM
is not easily defined,
BUT it is readily recognizable. AND it is
far more important than physical beauty,
However when the two are combined the
combination is irresistible.
INNER CHARM is magnetic for it draws people to you
and makes them want to know you.
YOU can develop INNER CHARM just as you learn about
everything BUT it takes constant study and
self-discipline.
This INNER CHARM is
the talent that shines through training and
technique.
The six (6) qualities that
are listed as the characteristics of great actors
and actresses are:
1) COURTEOUSNESS
2) FRIENDLINESS
3) KINDNESS
4) INTEREST IN OTHER PEOPLE
5) VITALITY
6) SELF-CONFIDENCE
The first step in learning
how to be a more attracting and stimulating
personality is to examine and evaluate your
presence to daily life.
The following are the ten
(10) major requirements toward the development of
a FINE personality:
1) KINDNESS
2) CLEANLINESS OF BOTH MIND AND BODY
3) UNSELFISHNESS
4) GOOD DISPOSITION
5) OBEDIENCE TO IDEALS AND PRINCIPLES
6) HONESTY IN ALL THINGS
7) TRUTHFULNESS
8) LOYALTY
9) RELIGION OR SPIRITUALITY
10) GOOD HEALTH
There is no rapid transit to self-improvement.
The brain is a machine. We must learn how to make it function. We must acquire wisdom in addition to knowledge. Wisdom involves aims and purposes and ideals, which is even more than knowledge.
Wisdom involves character. Ideas and ideals are powerful determining factors in the development of personality and character.
"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be used much till they have been seasoned." says Oliver Wendell Holmes.
It is every person's inherent right to wish to advance in life's progress. Indeed, to progress constructively should be the desire and the principle urge of every man and woman's existence. Success depends greatly upon a magnetic, pleasing personality.
A personality is like the mechanical magnet. It has to be charged with an inner something that is called INNER FAITH or SPIRITUALITY. It must reach out beyond the stage, out into the audience, large OR small, and send out a wave from within the actor.
Just as the electric atom charges the bit of steel within its range and draws the bits to its charged point, the actor must establish contact between himself and the audience. When he has succeeded in doing that, he then must learn how to retain that contact, that interest, that bit of electric charge in order to hold the audience to the end.
Someone has defined PERSONALITY as a
balance perfection of a healthy body, an illumined
mind, and controlled emotions.
That you build the
personality to its fullest one
must learn how to reach out and in and draw from
within himself a strong unit of PERSONAL POWER. Here are the twelve (12) steps toward
PERSONAL POWER :
1)RADIANT HEALTH OF BODY
AND MIND
2) WILLINGNESS TO PAY THE PRICE (NOT MONEY
3) AN OPEN MIND
4) A PLEASANT BUT CONVINCING VOICE
5) A SENSE OF OBSERVATION AND IMAGINATION
6) A SENSE OF HUMOR
7) DESIRE TO EXCEL IN SERVICE
8) TACT IN DEALING WITH OTHERS
9) A SELF-CONFIDENT POINT OF VIEW..A POISED
MIND
10) ABSOLUTE HONESTY IN MONEY MATTERS
11) OPTIMISTIC ENTHUSIASM
12) PERSONALITY AND WILL TO CARRY ON
A person is first observed through their
physical appearance. People are likely to judge
one first by their outward appearance. They form
an impression of one by what they SEE before they
hear one speak.
Most important of all is the silhouette beneath
the outer clothes. POSTURE is the spine of an attractive figure.
Develop a rhythymic walk, WHICH IS BALANCE IN
MOTION, and one
will develop grace in all his movements.
Standing
Walking
Sitting
REMEMBER *** PRACTICE MAKES PERFECTION
What is character ? "Character is higher than intellect." says Ralph Waldo Emerson. Walter Pitkin (American journalist) defines character by saying, "It is a web of habits which deal with oneself, with other peple, and with affairs in which the needs and wants of people figure.
That it is a web of habits that deal with oneself, with other people, and with affairs in which the needs and wants of people figure, we accept.
It is for us, however, left to strenthen this web. To make it firmer for good rather than for evil. Character grows in stature and fibre through useful contact with people and events.
1. Head held high and over the middle of your shoulders.
2. Chin parallel to the floor
3. Shoulders even and pulled back a little
4. Arms resting easily at your sides with the palms turned towards your thighs
5. Feet pointing straight ahead about 4-6 inches apart
6. Pleasant composure on face
1. Head held high and over the middle of your shoulders
2. Chin parallel to the floor
3. Even steps with weight balanced on balls of feet
4. Swing arms freely in accordance with stride
5. Pleasant composure on face
1. Head held high and over the middle of your shoulders
2. Chin parallel to the floor
3. Sit well over your hips
A firm character is a tightly woven web. It may be too austere for comfort, or cruel or insipid in its sense of value, but none the less it is firm. It knows what it wants and needs, and it knows how to get it."
Charles Northrup
Phone: (561) 649-0041
E-mail: northrup@webtv.net
4610 Happy Landings North
West Palm Beach,FL 33415