Article: You want to stay looking and smelling clean. Shower daily, use deodorant, and wear clean clothes.  Avoid strong cologne. An overpowering smell can make people uncomfortable, and can aggravate health conditions like asthma. You want a strong personality, not a strong smell. Try to look better than the guys around you so that you stand out. For example, wear patterns, collared shirts, nice pants, and possibly a tie. Don’t wear shirts that advertise a brand name or your favorite band; you want to advertise yourself. Read How to Dress Well As a Guy for more suggestions.  Dressing well does not mean dressing up, necessarily. Your clothes should fit you well, should be comfortable, and should be appropriate for the situation. Remember—clothes are window dressing. If you exude confidence and strength, and command respect by your presence, your clothes will be secondary. Staying in shape will not make you an alpha male—that must come from the inside—but it will help with your health and well-being. It also sends another signal: the man who takes good care of himself can take care of others, too. The way you carry yourself speaks volumes to those around you, without you even making a sound. Your posture, your hand gestures, your stance—all of it sends signals to those around you about your place in the world. You want those signals to be strong and confident, not protective and small. Here are some examples of confident body language:   Stand or sit up straight. Don't slouch. Show your full height in the presence of adults. Steeple the fingers. Press the fingertips of both hands together, with palms separated. A higher steeple projects confidence, as long as you aren't touching your mouth with your fingertips.  Put your hands behind your back. This posture suggests openness and confidence. Make eye contact (if it is culturally appropriate). Look at the person you're talking to. To avoid staring, try moving your gaze from one eye to the other, then to the mouth. Briefly look away from time to time. Put your hands into your pocket, with your thumbs out. This signals confidence, and perhaps a little cockiness. Stand with strong posture, use expansive gestures, and look relaxed and comfortable in your surroundings. See How to Look Approachable for more tips on looking totally at ease in any situation. If you aren't used to looking or feeling confident, it may take some time to adjust. This is normal. Work on building the habit of confidence. If you slip up, remember that tomorrow is a new day. It will get easier with practice.   Try power posing before a challenge to help you feel stronger. If you need a private place, go to the restroom. Remind yourself of something you did well in the past, and take a moment to be proud of yourself.
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Keep your hygiene impeccable. Dress well. Join a gym and get fit. Project confidence through your body language. Don’t be afraid to fill the room with your presence. Give it practice.

Imagine settings and characters. Although the subject matter can be just about anything, songs are widely used to convey very personal stories, so focus on characters especially: their motivations, what actions they might take, and the consequences of those actions.  Of course, no rule says that you must start with lyrics before composing the music. So if you wake in the night with a snatch of melody in your head, feel free to skip ahead to Part 2 and start from there. But having a firm grasp on the story you want to tell can make critical choices easier when composing music. Even if you only aim to create an instrumental piece, consider keeping a story in mind to guide you. Classical composers would often do this for inspiration. For instance, Dvorak scored the second and third movements of his ninth symphony, “From the New World,” to a poem by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow. Songs are typically structured into verses and choruses. A traditional verse is composed of four lines, with the second and fourth line forming a rhyme. Build your characters here and develop your story. For example, Bruce Springsteen’s “Brilliant Disguise” depicts the mounting mistrust between a husband and his wife. Each verse depicts their relationship by listing the husband's growing suspicions. While verses develop a story, the chorus sums up the situation. Use the chorus to hammer home the point you're trying to make. It can be expressed in a single line that’s only sung once, a single line that’s repeated for emphasis, a rhyming couplet, or four lines, just like a traditional verse. In “Brilliant Disguise,” Springsteen follows the four-line format for his chorus. In a few words, he sums up the overall theme of mistrust with: “So tell me what I see/When I look in your eyes/Is that you, baby/Or just a brilliant disguise?” A middle-eight (also known as a bridge) is a unique piece of music within a song. Usually it comes before the last verse and chorus, offering the audience a fresh change in sound. Lyrically, they serve as a means to express a significant change in the story, whether it's a change in perspective for the characters or a new turn in the narrative. However, middle-eights are not necessary, so don’t feel obligated to write one. In the last verse before the middle-eight in “Brilliant Disguise,” the narrator begins to switch focus from his wife to himself as he wonders why she’s with him at all. Springsteen employs the middle-eight to expand this shifted focus. Here, the narrator examines his own actions and state of mind, revealing a new dimension to his mistrust with the conclusion: “I wanna know if it’s you I don’t trust/‘Cause I damn sure don’t trust myself” In your first draft, concentrate on the story itself and flesh it out in full. With each subsequent draft, make edits that will strengthen your lyrics when sung.  Count the number of syllables in each line to make sure no one line has too many for you to sing. If you’re using a rhyming scheme, identify cliched rhymes, like “forever” and “together." See if you can express the same idea in other words that will stand out as an original statement instead of a borrowed phrase. Don’t worry about perfecting a final draft just yet. Most likely you will have to make additional edits once you’ve composed the music.
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Choose a story to tell. Flesh your story out in verse. Encapsulate your theme in the chorus. Consider including a middle-eight. Write multiple drafts.