• With confidence body language, you can make a great first impression on other people.

You can meet someone in a bar, for example, and even though you have the greatest pick up lines they've ever head, if you're hanging your head, turning away from them, and crossing your arms, they won't even listen to your brilliant conversation.

Similarly, let's say that you go in to a job interview. You have every employer's dream resume. You have great experience, great schooling, and great ideas. But you don't make an impression on the interviewer, because you are mumbling, you are averting your eyes, you are turned away from them, and you have your arms and legs crossed. More than anything, they will remember that you are insecure, that you will not be effective with clients, and that you won't be forceful, powerful, and a leader of people on your team.

Confident body language will impress people and show them immediately that you can be a leader. You have the ability to work with people. You can influence people in your favor. You are a great asset to any job.

In the more personal sphere, confident body language has been shown in many different studies to be one of the things that the opposite sex finds most attractive. Time and time again, men and women say that looks really aren't all that important, but confidence is irresistible.

• Confident body language will improve your success and standing at work.

Have you ever wondered why you're not appointed to be the head of a task force? Why you aren't getting those promotions? Why nobody seems to respect your opinions when you offer them?

Confident body language, more than your ideas, tells people that you are a positive force to be reckoned with in the work force.

• Confident body language helps you become more confident in other areas in your life.

If you have confident body language, then you feel more confident. This confidence that you demonstrate through the way you walk, the way you talk, the way you look people in the eye, will also make you feel more confident at work, in school, and in your interpersonal relationships.

• Confident body language will help you achieve your goals and improve your relationships with other people.

As said above, confidence is one of the things that people are most attracted to in others. Being more confident, and demonstrating that confidence in your body language, will help you develop more secure and effective relationships with others.

Similarly, if you demonstrate confident body language, you will be more apt to achieve your goals when working with others. They will be impressed by your confidence and more willing to work with you so that you can achieve what you would like.