It’s a big deal that your clothes impact or influence others. But what about choosing the right clothes so that they best impact you?
A recently published study by two students of Northwestern University’s Kellogg Business School provides insights into how to get the right mindset by choosing the right clothes. They created the term “enclothed cognition” to describe a process that affects your mindset based on the symbolic meaning and the physical experience of wearing your clothes.
How do you know if you need to improve your likeability factor? The answer is directly proportional to your desire to finding greater professional or social success.
As the New Year begins, people interested in improving their appearance wonder whether working with an image consultant or stylist will help them achieve their goal. Before making that determination, there are a few key things to know ahead of time. The most important thing is to first know your goals, as this will have a lot to do with the kind of professional you choose to work with.
A deeply satisfying conversation with a dear friend led me to take a journey of personal recollections. As we bring one year to a close and start a new year full of promise and plans, it seems appropriate to share some of the thoughts with you.
Think of a fresh approach to occupying a fresh “you” with your personal image. There’s plenty of iniquity to get riled up about in the world today. But not putting your best personal image out there would be one of the greatest injustices because you have total control of it.
About 50% of my work involves “Makeovers,” clients who want to make head-to-toe changes. They tell me that they have been inspired by those Makeover TV shows and hope to have a chance to start over and start fresh. I tell them that they’ve come to the right place, but my clients get far more than they ever bargained for.
No matter how successful you all ready are, paying close attention to your personal brand can help you realize your goals and aspirations. Maintaining your personal brand is vital to the effectiveness you experience in your work, at your home, and in your community. At the core of others’ interactions with you is whether they buy into your personal brand. Are you consistently expressing your brand message?
The notion of consistency sounds like a lot of work. So why bother?
When you think about creating a new look for yourself, what would you want to change? And why change it? Knowing both answers will help you come up with an action plan so you can be successful at reinventing your personal image.
If you’ve read my first three blog posts of 2010 you might have noticed an absence of the word “resolution.” That is until now. Why? Because I don’t believe in them. They really serve no purpose.
What could these possibly have in common? Read along and I promise you’re going to find a correlation that makes sense.
Last week a very fine piano technician paid a visit to my inherited Steinway baby grand piano. The piano has been sitting in our living room since it arrived from Chicago on the day of my 40th birthday. The piano is in good condition but could be improved before we invite concert pianists to play it and before we start taking lessons on it.