Are you a pleasant person? Would the people closest to you say you are pleasant to be around all the time? Would the people you work with or even the people you happen to encounter throughout your day say that you are pleasant?
This is a question we should all probably ask ourselves from time to time so that we can keep “being pleasant” top of mind. We should be honest with our evaluation and not provide ourselves with any excuses if we realize we have not been so pleasant. So often, people will say they are pleasant to other people as long as other people are pleasant to them. Or, they will say they can be pleasant as long as the situation doesn’t call for them to be otherwise.
The alternaview
Being pleasant is a choice we all can make every single day and there really is nothing that we should allow to interfere with our ability to be pleasant all the time. It shouldn’t matter if the other people you interact with are pleasant. It shouldn’t matter if you have to express a contrary opinion or disagree. We should be pleasant people and continually have pleasant interactions because when we are able to continually do this, we open ourselves up to experiencing our days and life in a great way.
Think about those days when you had a bad experience with someone. Even if you felt you were completely not to blame and there was nothing you should have done differently, you still were negatively impacted and didn’t feel at your best after the negative encounter. You were most likely all wound up and you lost your calm peace of mind.
How we experience every moment of our day really matters. The more moments we can have where we are enjoying the people around us and interacting with them in a great way, the better. And, even in those instances where it is necessary to disagree, when we are able to do so in a calm and rational way and we don’t allow the disagreement to ever become intense, emotional or confrontational, we always end up in a better place.
If we genuinely want to be a pleasant person, it is helpful to observe and learn from the pleasant people around us. These are some of the great characteristics I have noticed pleasant people usually have.
Take a look and check off all the characteristics you also have.
30 Traits of A Pleasant Person
- Genuinely interested in knowing and learning about people
- Understanding about issues and challenges
- Willingly allows cars to merge into the lane in front of them
- Says please and thank you all the time
- Loving
- Smiles many times throughout the day
- Always listens to the person they are speaking to
- Patient
- Laughs a lot
- Generous
- Focuses on how other people are feeling
- Attempts to tell funny stories and make other people laugh
- Always willing to lend a helping hand and offer assistance
- Compliments other people
- Appreciates the people and things around them
- Thoughtful
- Happy
- Not worried about always proving they are right
- Can always see the good side of someone
- Not worried that people are taking advantage of their kindness
- Interested in learning from people
- Happy to do favors for other people
- Would give you their last bite of pie
- Open minded
- Freely and easily apologizes when appropriate
- A great friend
- A great neighbor
- Holds the door open for the person behind them
- Laughs at other people’s jokes
- Genuine
…that’s the alternaview.
Are you a pleasant person? Have you noticed any other traits? Do you agree with this alternaview? Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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I think that exudes from your blog. I think I even remember reading one of your posts where people asked you why you were always smiling … definitely another trait of a pleasant person. Thanks for stopping by the alternaview. It is great to have you commenting here.
)! And I really hope to meet you some day in person!! 
I have to work on those 2 points. I believe it is really important that we learn to be pleasant and nice to people. The more we are pleasant to others, people will be pleasant toward us. Thanks for sharing 
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