Category Archives: Attitude

What Influences What You Wear? Try The Positive Mirror

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What influences what you wear? Is color an important influence? I have no doubt that it should matter to you because color has deeply personal meanings for each person - even you!

What influences what you wear? Is color an important influence? I have no doubt that it should matter to you because color has deeply personal meanings for each person – even you!

Think about what influences what you wear.  What comes up for you?  Do you get inspired by TV programs or by morning news show segments?  Do you get ideas from fashion magazines?  Or, maybe you get ideas from how you see other people dressing at work or at social events?  Maybe what influences what you wear has to do with where you work. Maybe it’s a combination of these sources.

Many years ago, when I used to work for top retailers in Chicago, on occasion some customers would be inspired by an outfit in a store window, or on a mannequin in my area.  “I’d like to get that whole mannequin,” some customers would say to me.  But just like the TV shows, the magazines, the people around you, and your work environment, not everything that influences you is necessarily right for you.

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How Challenging It Is To Create Change To Your Personal Image

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Stars of the stage and top executives have one great thing in common. Both can identify with how challenging it is to create change to their personal images. No one wants to look like a tarnished star.

Stars of the stage and top executives have one great thing in common. Both can identify with how challenging it is to create change to their personal images. No one wants to look like a tarnished star.

Changing is a bitch!  When you’re determined to make positive changes to your image, it may be very helpful to know that – no matter how challenging it is to create change – you’re not alone.

Over the weekend I coached a group of musicians, who all acknowledged how challenging it is to create change that improves their personal image and brand.  It was an excellent experience for them that they could share the biggest challenge they each presently face within the group.  Even though everyone had her or his own top challenge, everyone could relate to what the other is going through.

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Staying Open-Minded Lets Us See The Truth In Others

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By staying open-minded, the sight of mosques throughout Istanbul no longer give me angst. All I see is the architectural representation of faithful people who I experienced to be both passionate and peaceful.

By staying open-minded, the sight of mosques throughout Istanbul no longer give me angst. All I see is the architectural representation of faithful people who I experienced to be both passionate and peaceful.

Staying open-minded is one of the most important things you can be, whether it’s when you’re traveling, or when you’re encountering people even in familiar territory.  On my most recent trip, which included visiting the nation of Turkey for the first time, I realized how important staying open-minded really is.

My partner and I travel frequently, most often to Europe.  So we always felt like we lived up to staying open-minded with relative ease.  But, in the days leading up to this most recent trip, I was expressing my apprehensions.  As a gay and Jewish man, how would I be received in Turkey?  Would I be safe?  In an effort to staying open-minded, I acknowledged those concerns, and “packed a full bag” of curiosity.

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Don’t Be A Genuine Fake

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A small shop selling leather accessories that mimic the real thing. My advice: refuse the temptation to buy items that are genuine fake.

A small shop selling leather accessories that mimic the real thing. My advice: refuse the temptation to buy items that are genuine fake.

As if I needed a “reminder-to-self”, while enjoying a perfectly lovely trip abroad, I got a clear message that I must refuse to be a genuine fake.  You should, too.

Now, I didn’t need to come to Turkey to figure this out.  But the concept of buying goods that are each brazenly marketed as being a genuine fake, struck me as a genuine affront to all that is good in the world.  For about twenty bucks apiece, I could have filled my wrists and arms with genuine fake brand name watches with nearly identical designs and appearances to the real McCoy’s.  I am sure we have all seen this before on Canal Street in New York, or by some street vendor off Union Square in San Francisco, or just about anywhere else.

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Makeover Superstar – No matter who you are!

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Jody Watley [ca. 2006] singer/songwriter of Makeover Superstar, and also inspired this post.

Jody Watley [ca. 2006]

I absolutely want each client to become her or his own makeover superstar.  But not one of my clients initially says that this is ultimately what they care about.  And that’s because I’m already thinking ahead, from the perspectives of wanting everyone to far exceed their own goals, and of wanting to be an outstanding service provider.

It is my honor and focus to help each client realize and fulfill their personal image goals.  And while each client has her or his reasons and desires for making changes and improvements, a true measure of success can be assessed when I see that each one of them becomes a makeover superstar.

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Feeling Good Enough Should Not Come at the Expense of Others

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Feeling good enough should not come at the expense of others. Instead, set positive intentions to honor your own outer and inner beauty.

Feeling good enough should not come at the expense of others. Instead, set positive intentions to honor your own outer and inner beauty.

I’m a life long student of self-image.  And if you’re a regular reader of my blog, you probably are, too.  So, whenever I have an opportunity to learn something new, I take it.  Last week, I attended a healthy living class for adult learners at Stanford University focusing on helping others to find ways of feeling good enough about their self-image under the leadership of a licensed clinical social worker and a sexual health instructor.

It was one of the most bizarre classes I’ve ever attended.

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True or False – Weight Affects Your Perception

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie

It’s practically impossible to see New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on TV or in person without reacting to his obvious obesity, isn’t it?  At the same time, do you feel that your opinion about Governor Christie’s weight affects your perception of the job he does as governor?

A recent Wall Street Journal article, “Want to be CEO? What’s Your BMI [Body Mass Index]?” got me thinking about how weight affects your perception.

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Giving Up On Your Image Is Like Giving Up On You

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I often wonder why so many people seem to end up giving up on their image, especially when they have so much potential to enhance it. Sometimes it takes the temerity to keep trying. Anyone who’s ever taken the bar exam knows that it’s not unusual to fail it the first time out of the gate. But that doesn’t stop most from retaking the exam.

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Turbocharge Your Personal Style At A Joseph Rosenfeld Image Bootcamp

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to turbocharge your personal style with me, but haven’t done it because of time or budget? Now you can. It is with great pleasure that I announce the launch of the Turbocharge Your Personal Style Bootcamp! After months of developing this Bootcamp concept, I am now ready to introduce you to this great opportunity to work together.

What You Get Out of A Turbocharge Your Personal Image Bootcamp
Actually, Bootcamp participants want the same thing as my private clients: to significantly improve their presence by updating the way you look. The way the Bootcamp has been developed, you get to honor and celebrate exactly who you are. And with the added benefit of working with a small group of participants who share the same interests and desire the same kinds of outcomes, you will finally see yourself as your truly are, and be supported by others. Not only will you get a fresh vision of yourself, others will be able to reflect that back to you. One thing you can count on is that you’ll come away from this powerful weekend turbocharged to embody your essential qualities.

The weekend is very comprehensive.
• It all begins with a 1:1 personal assessment before the Bootcamp actually begins. You and I first clarify what you want to get out of the Bootcamp.
• Next, you will develop your personal style profile, which becomes the basis of all the work we will do.
• Then a team of top hairstylists will work with each of the participants to update your hairstyle.
• Once you start to see your updated self, we’ll delve into your mindsets about your image and shopping, and develop healthier thoughts and practices.
• From here on in, you are immersed into the shopping environment for some real “hands-on retail therapy.”
• You’ll learn best shopping practices that are meaningful to your image and style, put looks together, and present the outcome of your selections to me and to the group.

I want you to have the skills, knowledge, and mindset that allow you to manage your personal image with total confidence so that you’re not worried or afraid of what visual messages you’re conveying in social or business situations.

Why I Created The Turbocharge Your Personal Style Bootcamp
This Bootcamp is specifically for rising stars and others who might be restarting their careers, and whose time and resources are limited. Still, they have a strong desire to discover and reinvent their personal style, via a fast and affordable immersion into personal style transformation. This Bootcamp gives more people the opportunity to experience transformation in a way that is different from how clients work with me privately.

What Are The Differences Between the Bootcamp and Working Privately?
There are several differences between attending a Bootcamp weekend and working with me privately. Each has their distinct benefits.

• A Turbocharge Your Personal Style Bootcamp requires the commitment of just one weekend of your life plus a full month of follow-up that includes homework assignments and a mid-month conference call. In contrast, private clients work on their image development over the course of a full year. So during a Bootcamp, we accomplish in just a weekend what happens over the course of a number of months.

• Private clients don’t get to enjoy the opportunity of shopping in stores with me. In an effort to help manage their image development while minimizing their time commitment, I do all the shopping and present all of the possibilities to them. But at a Turbocharge Your Personal Image Bootcamp, you get to have the experience of being in a retail environment with me. You get to learn how to shop successfully so that you can retain this important skill and are able to have the experience on your own after the Bootcamp.

• Turbocharge Your Personal Image Bootcamp participants learn and experience their transformation in small groups of up to 6 participants. By experiencing image development in a small group, you witness and support the transformations of others, and you equally receive the same connection from your fellow Bootcamp participants.

Interested in learning more? Check out the complete details here. I’m so excited about this Turbocharge Your Personal Image Bootcamp, and look forward your participation.

Joseph Rosenfeld helps successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs transform their self-confidence by improving their personal style. Get Joseph’s free report that helps you know which “7 Ways to Transform Your Personal Image” at josephrosenfeld.com.

In With The Old

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At Prato's Museo del Tessuto, piles of old clothes are arranged to simulate the atmosphere inside a textile factory where 'pickers' sort old clothes into categories so that the fabrics may be reused in current fashion.

At Prato’s Museo del Tessuto, piles of old clothes are arranged to simulate the atmosphere inside a textile factory where ‘pickers’ sort old clothes into categories so that the fabrics may be reused in current fashion.

One of the most common adages we all like to use at this time of year is “Out with the old, and in with the new.”  But what’s wrong with being in with the old?

I was entirely consumed with this thought while in Florence over the holidays because, as the birthplace of the Renaissance, it’s a place that continually looks back to the past and makes it fresh again.  In fact, Florentine scholars, artists, and scientists during the Renaissance have been famously credited with giving new life and meaning to ideas from antiquity.

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