Do a One Small "Save a Butterfly" or "Save the Planet" Thing Today!

I saw Monarch Butterflies migrating through our neighborhood recently and I thought about how we talk about traveling to the past and being afraid of changing the present by doing something small, like stepping on a butterfly. But we don't think about changing our present circumstances by doing something small. Every day we have a chance to change our lives and those around us by spreading out our beautiful, kindness, butterfly wings.  So today do something small, open a door for someone, buy someone a coffee, whatever your political beliefs call your state and federal representatives and thank them for whatever they are doing that you support and ask them to take action on what you care about.

Do a one small "Save a Butterfly"

"Save the Planet" thing today!

Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.
     

Do You Tug? Constant Tugging on Your Shirt?

Here is a fun article about nonverbal behavior. It’s the little movement of tugging on your shirt that’s a combination of “primping” behavior like a woman adjusting her necklace or pushing her hair back and is also a comfort/stress cue. The reality is that the shirt is too small and you feel the need to loosen it but it also communicates your desire to look better and comfort yourself when you’re feeling bad about having a bigger belly. Notice this juzzing behavior today! Do you tug? 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/men-that-constant-tugging-on-your-shirt-we-notice-it-11571251095?fbclid=IwAR3pd0lWqGReDj2l5wqjQD9Rzpzj4dWdR84ENyrAb-MuvFTYhwU_phIgS00

Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.
     

Customer Service and the Desire NOT to Talk Face-to-Face

I spoke recently to 100 CEOs of the country’s top restaurant chains and they are dealing with customers that no longer want to go out to dinner and talk, they want dinner delivered to them at home so they can stay in their jammies. And my retail clients are dealing with people that are shopping in their jammies.

 And now Sephora has a new basket concept. Take the black hand basket rather than the red one at their store and shop and no salesperson will bother you. I find the nonverbal, “Be Silent and Don’t Look at me!” desire fascinating.






On one hand my corporate audiences are saying their employees don’t know how to communicate with each other and hire me to help. And companies hire me to do one-on-one coaching with top executives in line for promotion that need to improve their face-to-face interactions. But as part of that coaching I send them out into the real world and have them engage in small talk. There is a bit of mismatch our desire to improve our communication and the knowledge that you can now order dinner without leaving the house! Now you can order a coffee on your phone and get it without having to talk to anybody at coffee shops and now shop for makeup without face-to-face interaction!!! The world is changing so rapidly!!

Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.