HOW TO DEVELOP THE ALERT MANNER

No one cares to converse with a person who is listless, 
indifferent, moody, or shows battle fatigue. To prevent 
becoming equally dull, avoid all people who are not 
animated by something within them that makes them appear, 
and act, alert.

Develop the alert manner! Be enthusiastic about everything 
and let it show. Refuse to be associated with anything or 
anyone, who is listless and dull. Remove yourself from the 
presence of people or environments that are exhausting and 
repellent. Live and act with lively and active people! Be 
stimulating to be around! Be enthusiastic. Have a sense of 
humor and note how magnetic this appeal can be, how your 
personality comes alive, how you achieve that external 
glow, that impression circle! Note the magic wand it waves 
and how this magic wand can be dubbed the million dollar 
personality.

The moment you adopt the alert manner, and a more vivacious 
outgoing style of personality, you will find that tiredness 
drops away. As you convert somber words to words of 
exuberance and good living you will find yourself brimming 
with vitality! 

Mental attitudes change the endocrine attitude of the body 
and with hormones in your system you actually zip up your 
congeniality and better health. You become more interested 
in people, more understanding of them as well as more 
alert. 
In becoming more conversationally adept in influencing 
people, light up their enthusiasm as well as your own. To 
accomplish this speed up your conversational delivery. Show 
spirit. Arouse interest. Apply the spark that fires them 
up. Be stimulating, be colorful without being obnoxious. 
Talk about matters that are happy and attractive. Avoid 
mentioning your troubles. Avoid anything and everything you 
disapprove. Avoid complaints, simply refuse to be negative 
about anything! 
There is no better way to break through the sound barriers 
and tie people to you than by using words and attitudes of 
cheer. Enthusiasm is the number one asset that endears and 
attracts and it can be enhanced in all its human forms. 
Humor may be one such form.