How to Look Like You Know What You Are Doing

What's the trick to looking like you know what you're doing? Well, just looking like you know what you're doing. It's a trick I discovered at school a few years ago and something that I have put into effect ever since. It's simple, probably so simple that you would never think of it. Just look busy, with a purpose. As long as you look busy, even if you're completely lost and need to think through a few things, you can buy yourself some precious time by just looking like your furiously working towards a conclusion. Work's every time. I should patent this stuff.



For as long as I remember it's taken me a little extra time to get stuff done. This is not from a lack of trying, or because I'm slow moving or anything like that, it's simply that I like to think things out. I use to get in trouble at school for "day dreaming" even though I was just thinking about my assignment. I learned at that point that people want you to just look busy even if you're not doin g anything in particular. Whether you're trying to find the perfect baby shower decorations for a baby shower (which I recently had to do), or have to get in an important report at work (which I also had to do recently), people seem to feel a whole lot better about the whole situation if they see you feverishly working, even if it's all just an act.



Take this for example: As I mentioned before I was recently put in charge of getting baby shower decorations for a friends baby shower. Finding the perfect baby shower decorations was tough. There was a lot to sift through and none of it seemed to exactly fit what my friend wanted. After a few weeks, my friend began to get nervous and asked me, crying (she was under a lot of pressure at the time), why I wasn't searching and taking it seriously. Instead of yelling at her and telling her how much work I had done I decided I was going to begin to include her in the process to show her how much I was working. So from then on, every couple of days I sent her links to baby shower pages to see what she thought. I was actually doing less work then before but since I was showing her what I was doing I looked busier.



And that is the key: as long as you look busy people will think you know what you're doing. Once I started including her she felt better about the whole thing and apologized to me. Try it sometimes, I guarantee if you look busy people will give you the benefit of the doubt, even if your still trying to figure out what you're going to do.