QC DIY: Flirting With Skill (part 3 of 3)

Learning to flirt can help you improve interpersonal relationships, your love life, and even your career. Here’s 10 useful tips to becoming a better flirt:
1. Get out of the house. Meeting people means getting off the couch, potato.
2. Take the initiative: other people are shy too&mdash nothing ventured, nothing gained.
3. Nothing terminates encounters faster than sexual comments, canned lines, or threatening conversation. Small talk is important business, and good manners are a turn-on.
4. Learn the QCC’s for starting a conversation: ask an open-ended Question, make a Comment, or give a Compliment.
5. Go interesting places to meet interesting people (bars don’t count).
6. Anyplace can be a meeting place&mdash make where you are work for you.
7. Have a flirting prop: a best-selling book, a t-shirt with a fun saying, a dog, or an interesting piece of jewelry&mdash it’ll give others a reason to talk to you.
8. Adopt a 3-strike rule: Ask a person out once, twice, but if some refuses or ignores you a third time, move on.
9. Don’t take rejection personally. Being single is a numbers game and we don’t die from rejection&mdash we only think we will.
10. Flirting’s not a one-shot deal&mdash Try and try again.
Source: Susan Rabin, author of 101 Ways to Flirt: How to Get More Dates and Meet Your Mate.