As a long time image consultant, who mostly works with Silicon Valley based entrepreneurs and executives, I’ve pondered the brouhaha that erupted this past week everywhere in the media, even in Paris where I’ve been visiting, when Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg showed up wearing a hoodie to meet with Wall Street investment brokers.
My list of 10 ways to exude confidence at work is inspired by a recent Forbes.com article, How To Be More Confident At Work, which caught my attention for a couple of important reasons. Truth is, looking and feeling confident in your 9-5 isn’t just about wearing the right clothes. It’s about your attitude.
Having spent hundreds of hours in the closets of my clients, I can honestly tell you that the top experience is when they realize that they spend big money on clothes that are not wearable. With eyes wide open, they realize how they have squandered their hard earned money into clothes that sit idle in the closet. The average dollar value of clothes sitting idle in my clients’ closets could be worth the value of a car! If you think of your closet as a garage filled with a car’s worth of parts and equipment that you can’t put together and drive, you wouldn’t stand for it.
Silicon Valley sure is the target of some interesting bull crap, even in my realm of style!
Though I have basically given up on posting comments to information sharing websites like Quora, I’ll occasionally drop by to see what topics people are asking about, and how people are answering those questions.
There are great takeaways from the red carpet of this year’s Golden Globes awards. Fashion worn by the stars can teach us so much about the current times. Most often, fashion designers provide stars, through stylists, design options that are reflections of current and forward thinking design concepts. With so many stars, and so many trends and styles to wrap your head around, I curated a detailed selection to help illustrate the takeaways from the red carpet. [Photo images by Getty. Click an image to see an enlarged version.]
A life coach, whose practice specializes in helping get people employed, wrote me a note recently. It caught my attention to the point that if I had to write him back a free answer, I was going to post it to my blog for everyone’s benefit.
The key to understanding the color red is to feel it. Red comes with a range of emotions and sensations that I think are beyond other colors. Even if you were blind, red is a color you’d be able to experience like no other.
For most techies in Silicon Valley, if your laptop computers and mobile devices are as badly synched as your clothing is with your lifestyle, you’re in big trouble!
London is defined by two foundational styles – City and Country – and they both influence your personal style today. Visit London, as I just did, become immersed in its rich history, and you will see how true this is. Style doesn’t occur organically in London. Like everything in this great city, how style was developed here, and how it has progressed, is part of an orderly plan. This may not make sense at first. But keep reading, and it will all make perfect sense.
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.