![Jody Watley [ca. 2006] singer/songwriter of Makeover Superstar, and also inspired this post.](http://www.josephrosenfeld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/jody-watley-the-makeover.jpg)
Jody Watley [ca. 2006]
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.
These photos are of Tony, a man who chronicled the changes to his body over a 3 month period. Top left was Tony at the start of his program. Top right photo was Tony mid way through. And the photo at bottom is Tony’s transformed torso to date.
My clients are always telling me that no matter how important fitness and nutrition are to their lives and to maintaining a healthy self-image, it’s not easy to keep up with. Maybe even you are on a journey to improve strength and body shape. Keeping fit and eating right are not spectator sports. You can’t watch someone else do it and have the results rub off on you. If you are concerned about enhancing your self-image by improving your fitness and nutrition, you have to do the work.
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.
Just now, while opening up my computer to write this post, I quickly realized that I am working from home in sweats. I’m actually recovering from an acute case of food poisoning. Fun times. I’m not even back on solid foods, yet. But while in the same sweats I wore to the urgent care doctor yesterday, I just had to write about the notion of working from home in sweats.
This guy is a cultural icon of social media. But does his personal style make looking like the best you seem like it’s too much?
Time after time, both clients and non-clients tell me that it’s almost too much of an effort to look their very best. But why is looking like the best you so hard to do?
Let’s review a few key things that come up for a lot of people who have been brave and vulnerable to share their reasons with me.
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.
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.
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.
Making the most of your personal image can be easy or difficult. It doesn’t have to be difficult, but the more you resist, the more difficult it is. If you have resisted updating your image, gave up on trying to coordinate clothing to make cohesive outfits, neglected to consider the messages and purposefulness of your clothing and outfits, or have let yourself go only to find that you have a negative self-image, then you’re making it more difficult to make the most of yourself.
Have you ever felt controlled or manipulated to be someone who you are not, simply by wearing clothes that someone else gave you or told you to wear? If you think this is something that doesn’t involve you, you might think about it a bit more deeply. One of my new clients has identified this issue as a chief reason for her low self-image. It could be something that you have also experienced. You may even be causing this hardship, unknowingly, on someone else that you love.