Making an excellent first Impression

~ Gottfried

Eyebrows speak louder than words. Truth is, you only get one chance to make an excellent first impression. Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time. It takes a moment to judge someone and a lifetime to understand them. So judge them anyway.

When I first met her she smelled like bubble gum and roses. Now she moves around smelling like hydraulic. I’m not sure why she takes comfort in the fact that I couldn’t possibly leave her. I’ve left a lot of people for less. You can’t come to me today smelling like yesterday.

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong, good and competent. That’s the “halo effect.’ Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept, you may assume everything else they do is inept. Apply regardless.

My first instinct when seeing an animal is to say “hello.” My first instinct when I see a person is to avoid eye contact and hope it goes away. Many people associate stage fright with the fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it’s like a kind of fever. Keep burning up.

Two things remain irretrievable; time and a first impression. We don’t know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don’t always appreciate their fragility. My first impression is sending a clear message that it is not enough that I should succeed, others should fail.

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it. Life is a first impression. You get one shot at it. Make it everlasting. Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark. I always make a poor first impression.

It saves a lot of time.

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

38 thoughts on “Making an excellent first Impression”

  2. SMiLes Mr Gottfried It Appears my Unabashing Honesty Attracted my Wife
    to me From the Very Start It Surely Wasn’t the Size of my Wallet Still Living
    With my Sister in Her Apartment Dear Lord at age 28 Yes Dear Lord Times

    Two and Less Still Making Less Than Five Dollars An Hour Yet Foot in the

    Door in Federal Employment Just Waiting For President Clinton to Sign An Executive Order to Transfer my Menial Non-Appropriated Federal Job 5 Years

    Later into Appropriated Fund Employment Basically Paying me More Than

    Double Doing Basically the Same Job Handing Out Rental Shoes

    For Bowling What i Did 18 Years Before Getting 5 New Job

    Changes and Promotions in the Last 5 Years of Employment

    Before the Stress of it All Wore me Down You Know the Story Worst
    Pain Known to Humankind for 66 Months Type Two Trigeminal Neuralgia

    No Drug Would Touch Along with A Synergy of 18 Other Life Threats in Disorder
    Way True my Wife Didn’t See That

    Coming as i Digress Back

    to the First Impression Now

    True i Was Smiling As Always Yet

    i Just Blurted it Out She Was So Petite

    And About 5 Foot 6 Yet i Said Oh my God
    Size 9 ya Gotta Be Kidding me Feet that Big

    i Just Asked my Wife Again What Kind of First

    Impression That Made She Said She Thought She

    Couldn’t Believe i ACTUALLY SAID THAT Although you See

    i considered myself Close to an Expert in Guessing Shoe Size

    From Other Bodily Characteristics Outlier my Wife Was Yet It’s

    True Rather Large Yet Very Beautiful Feet With Exceptionally Long Toes

    And I WILL ADD Long Fingers too Great For Nail Polish Above so below

    Yeah it’s True i Was
    Pretty Clueless for All

    of What Was Socially
    Acceptable to Say Back

    Then Live and Learn Trial

    And Error That’s Life Strikes

    And Gutterballs Ride The Wave
    The Best Ya Can And Will Without Falling

    Off What’s Really Amazing is my Pay More Than

    Doubled Again and i Ended up at the Equivalent

    NF-04 Pay Grade Retiring At Marine Captain Pay Level in the Military

    Or Yes Even Major As They Had to Give me Back Pay All the Way Till

    2009 Recently as the First Nine Years of Service They Transferred

    To Appropriated Funds They Lost the Paperwork For i Had to

    Dig it Out of my Personal

    Files From Decades Before

    For the Period of 1984 till 1993

    It’s True i Didn’t Hit the Sweet Spot
    Always on Social Responses Yet Damn

    WRiTE i Could Sure Fill Out Some Paper Work

    Dot All the i’S and Cross All THE T’S YET i Gave

    Up Good Grammar When i Set Myself Free Hehe

    Anyway It’s the Last Impression That Counts in Public
    Dance Shock And Awe And Leave them SMiLinG When

    They See
    You Coming

    Again Even If You
    Aren’t Public Dancing

    in the Decade Long Duration

    of Dancing First Impressions Best

    Part Of All i get to See All Their First

    Impressions Wearing Sunglasses at Night

    Oh my
    God It
    Will Get
    So Very
    Very Hilarious HAha..

    If You Can’t Make the
    Right First Impression and

    Even the Circus Won’t Let

    You in Be the Star of Your
    Own Unique Impressions Hehe..:)

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

      1. You Know (Feel Sense) Mr Gottfried Miracles Really Do Happen

        Every SMiLe is A Miracle mY FRiEnD Looking Above to

        All the Hot And Cold Rocks With No Life Above

        And It’s True i Lived the Living Dead for

        That 66 Months Then Without even

        The Memory of What A SMiLe

        Felt Like Hard to Recognize

        Myself Even AS Human

        In The Mirror For All

        Of What is Valuable

        About Humanity

        Indeed A SMiLe With
        Open Arms Now A Dance

        New With Happy Feet A Song

        That Has No End Yet the Beginning of A SMiLE Again..:)

        Liked by 1 person

        Reply

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.