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oil) are especially good for women. Another good suggestion is to have wheatgrass juice first thing in the morning. Ginger may often help a headache. All these foods are readily available in health stores such as Holland & Barrett.

3. Voice

The way your voice sounds can really get people to either listen up or ignore you. This is one part of self-image which you must work on, especially if you make a lot of presentations. It may be a good idea taking up singing lessons or doing simple breathing exercises to improve your voice. Take notice of how you sound on a regular basis. The tone of your voice also plays a role in depicting your mood, so take note of it. Projecting your voice also helps you attain a stronger self-image and it could play a massive role in the fourth aspect of self-image your confidence.

4. Confidence

Your confidence is greatly influenced by your appearance, mood and the way you project your voice. Also, it helps if you strongly believe in your ideas. However, be careful with how you convey confidence if you become over-confident in yourself and overestimate your abilities, people may lose confidence as well as trust in you. It is very important to not confuse confidence and arrogance. Arrogance leads to you being out of touch with reality, often causing you to look down on people. Confidence makes you believe in yourself and your real abilities, leading others to have a belief in you likewise. It leads you to have assertiveness whereby people would listen to what you have to say, while still maintaining your due respect for them. Confidence helps resolve a lot of problems and conflict of ideas.

5. Trust

With so many people entering business with the wrong motives, trust is everything. Many people in business at some point had others cheat on them by unfair practices. There are countless cases where persuasion was used to get the way of one party at the expense of another's. Many people have lost money on an unfair deal in the past. That is what they remember. Trust is often the hardest thing to build up as it is broken so easily. One way to nurture genuine trust is to firstly believe in what you have to offer and be true to yourself. Never make promises to people that you cannot deliver upon. Nobody knows what the future holds precisely, but if you make it a point to minimise other people's risks, then you are wise indeed. This is what persuades people to like you, begin to rely upon you and believe in you. Besides confidence, this is the most vital part of self-image in business. If you have an aura of genuineness and integrity about yourself people will take notice of whatever you try to propose.

In conclusion, all five things work together to create your self-image synergistically. Whatever you are going through right now, it is never too late to change the way you look at yourself and the way others see you. As the great American motivational speaker Anthony Robbins once said, "The past does not equal the future". Whatever lies behind you cannot be changed. However, everything that lies in the future is subject to change you being the initiator of it. If you start with looking carefully at your thinking process, setting yourself some goals to follow through that you look upon each day (ones that inspire you) and learn how to hold yourself in a positive light, you will start to see a shift in your self-image and ultimately, your direction. Self-image is the be-all and end-all in business. It applies to every business person and whether they succeed or fail as an individual. The more cut-throat your business is, the more important it is to maintain a positive self-image.

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