10+ things that diminish your power

1. Chasing people who have rejected you

2. Sharing too much information

3. Repeating yourself

4. Talking to fill up silence in a conversation

5. Responding to veiled insult or backhanded compliment

6. Getting all maudlin

7. Sharing information with acquittance when a long duration of time has elapsed

8. Going off topic when a current point has not been fully explored

9. Cutting people off in conversation

10. Complaining and gossiping about others

11. Not concluding a conversation

12. Parroting the other person word for word

13. Using qualifiers

Starting off a sentence with an unneeded qualifier:

I am sorry but

I might be completely wrong but

Maybe it’s just me

Qualifiers discredit your communication, and it signals doubt and a lack of confidence. People may believe that you don’t feel confident in what you’re saying so why should anyone else take you seriously? And you seem untrustworthy.