Increase Your Self-Esteem - Be More Dynamic by Discovering Your Fashion Personality Type

By Chloe Taylor Brown

Have you ever spent any quality time considering your Fashion Personality Type and how this plays a big part in your lifestyle?

Darling, knowing your clothing and fashion personality type increases your self-assurance about the clothes you do buy and your self-confidence, and can solve so many fashion slip-ups; and, besides that, it will help you to save your precious time and priceless energy by keeping you out of stores that have nothing to do with your authentic image or the real you.

What is more valuable to you, your time or your energy?

Check out the 10 Clothing and Fashion Personality Types you can take advantage of to start Perfecting Your Authentic Image today.

Avant Garde - high fashion at best or worst. At best, it can include chic, one-of-a-kind pieces from your favorite designer's custom-made collections.

Bohemian - in its true essence a counter-culture to real fashion. Today it is an eclectic unstructured chic look.

Casual - at its best is youthful, easy-going, simple and unpretentious, but with a flair.

Classic - chic, yet simple and feminine; the designs and styles have a timeless appeal and can be worn year after year.

Conservative - modest, reserved, soft and feminine, with a tendency to lean toward simple flowing lines with rounded curves.

Country & Western - wild and strong, American values, rugged individualism, comfort, denim, rhinestones and fringes.

Dramatic - bold, confident, striking and chic; a risk taker who goes for crisp tailored ensembles. You do not like to mix and match.

Flirtatious - feminine, romantic, seductive and girlie, easy flowing fabrics that float and wrap around the body.

Glamorous - timeless and beautiful, confident, resilient, poised and polished, tasteful, stylish and high end.

Rebellious - a feminine maverick who goes for shock appeal, using clothes to make a bold and edgy statement that oozes controversy or sexuality, or both.

Most of us are multi-dimensional when it comes to how we like to dress and what we feel good wearing. So pay attention to what you wear most of the time and how you feel wearing those pieces or outfits. Also, notice what your family and friends tell you fit you well and what looks good on you. Who knows, this particular clothing type may represent your fashion personality type and bring out the best in you.

Tell me about a time you wore something and you felt absolutely amazing wearing it and everyone told you how great you looked. I would be very interested in listening, and hearing.

Love to you,

Chloe Taylor Brown

Chloe Taylor Brown is the president of Total Image Enhancement, a lifestyle specialist and business development firm in Atlanta, Georgia--USA. She is an image enhancement specialist, life by design POWER coach, author, and speaker. Her secret formula is her gift of combining personal experiences with cutting-edge techniques and systems to deliver powerful keynotes, presentations and workshops that get people out of their head and into their life.

As an international fashion model Chloe worked for Armani, Versace, Escada, Revlon products and others. Today she provides one-on-one POWER coaching to executives, entertainers and socialites, and individuals in transition; and to organizations like The Home Depot, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Avon Corporation and Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Getting Ready Chloe-Style: Perfecting Your Authentic Image and Determine Your Ideal: Creating a Life of Fulfillment and Prosperity. She is also the creator of the National Initiative for Girls on Body Image and Self-Esteem, a program that inspires and empowers girls-middle school through college, to recognize their intrinsic value to society and to the world. To learn more about Chloe Taylor Brown and Total Image Enhancement please visit http://totalimageenhancement.com

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I Always Have to Be Right!

By Stephanie Cooke

We have all had times when we know we are right but others have disagreed with us. Sometimes we will choose to challenge this, but other times we may simply agree to disagree in order to keep the peace; we don't usually attach much importance to this. For some people though, the need to be right is all consuming, and it can be impossible for them to back down if their views are challenged. I have a friend who's need to be right is actually quite comical- even when she's been proved to be wrong, she will invent the most way out scenarios when what she said may possibly be right, and claim that this was what she meant anyway! Another friend will insist on using Google after a disagreement over something involving facts to prove that she was right.

These people are often quite dominant in social situations. They can come across as confident, or even arrogant, but underneath this they are often very insecure people. They need to be right and to have this recognised as it validates their sense of self worth and sense of control. They can act very aggressively when this sense of control is threatened, as everything they hold an opinion on is directly linked to their self concept. This means that they can often lose perspective and 'blow up' over the most seemingly trivial things if challenged. It is also possible that they could also be genuinely unaware of the extent of the problem. However, it can be very emotionally draining to be around people like this, and others may actually avoid discussing certain subjects with them to reduce the risks of triggering this behaviour.

So- what if this sounds like somebody close to you? How do you deal with their need to be right at all times? Remember that they are actually very insecure people, who are afraid of being ridiculed or judged in any way. You will have to gain their trust; once they know that you are not going to judge them they will find it a lot easier to back down when they are wrong.

Even if you disagree with what they have said, still validate it in some way rather then just bluntly telling them that they are wrong. Make them aware that you think that what they have said is valid, but that there are also other points of view.

But- what if it's you who always has to be right? Try to realise that there is nothing bad about being wrong occasionally. If you realise you are wrong, admit it and stop trying to force your point. Listen to what others have to say and acknowledge their views. Accept that everyone is entitled to their opinion, and in some instances their may be no right or wrong. If it is appropriate, apologise.

If you feel comfortable, ask others to let you know when you have crossed the threshold from just stating your opinion to needing to be right. You will probably find that you earn a lot more respect through trying to correct your problems, which in turn could increase your sense of self worth and could eventually remove the underlying need to be right.

It may also be an idea to work on your self esteem to replace the underlying feelings of insecurity and poor self worth. You should find that once you start to feel better on the inside, you will project this on the outside. Remember, it's a lot more important to be happy than right all the time!

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Develop Your Personal Power

By Anne M. Clarke

Power is not something you get from anyone else. Your ability to do things is determined by what you allow yourself to do. The things which are most likely to prevent you from doing what you want are first, fear, and second, preconceived ideas you have about your abilities.

FEAR

Fear is a paralysing influence. If you don't confront fear and deal with it head-on, it can seize you up completely so you never do anything that you haven't done before. Some people deliberately seek out things to do which involves confronting their fear. It is even possible to be a "fear junkie", hooked on the thrill of doing something fearful, and then revelling in the exhilaration of having conquered the fear.

It is somewhat similar to the way that long distance joggers get hooked on the endorphins their bodies produce at the point of pain and exhaustion. Ski jumping, hang gliding, abseiling and public speaking are other examples of situations where feeling the fear is a part of the thrill. The "fear junkies" have learnt that the only way to deal with their fear is to go out and do whatever it is, regardless of their fear.

By not letting their fear take over they are able to expand their universe. Fear is a perfectly ordinary emotion which all of us experience, and it often has a beneficial effect in keeping us safe. The downside is that, in our desire to be safe, we never venture into the unknown. In fact, this creates a sensation of helplessness and powerlessness which in the end is far more destructive than the fear.

NEGATIVE SELF-PERCEPTIONS

The other major impediment to personal power is what we have learned about ourselves and our own abilities, from earliest infancy to today.

As a child in primary school I had trouble doing sums. My teacher would put big crosses all over my pitiful efforts, then have me stand facing the rest of the class with my exercise book open under my chin so everyone could see her markings, and beat me on the legs with a ruler. The humiliation was worse than the pain. My kind mother spend a lot of time trying to help me understand, and under her gentle tutelage I made some progress, but what I basically learnt was that I wasn't able to handle numerical tasks.

Years later, when I came to study for a Master's degree in business administration, I again found myself incapable of understanding the number-crunching which was an integral part of the course. Graeme, my tutor, was almost beside himself because of my lack of what he considered to be basic knowledge. It took a lot of reprogramming myself to get to a point where I could develop enough competence to pass the exams.

Even today, when I'm confronted with a column of figures which need adding up, I experience the same feelings of blind panic and a sense of utter inability to handle the task that I felt as a little girl of seven.

TAKING CONTROL

The good thing about both fear and negative self-perceptions is that they are capable of being dealt with, leaving you a stronger and more effective person. Nobody needs to be overpowered by either.

It's a matter of mental attitude.

You have the power to take control of your life, to plan your own future and watch it come true. Your potential is truly awe-inspiring.

The first thing you have to do, however, is to accept responsibility for whatever happens to you. If you blame others, their incompetence, their laziness, their politicking, their vendetta against you, their stinginess -you are really saying that these things are outside your control and therefore you can't change them.

In fact, for some people there is an emotional payoff for blaming others for things that go wrong - it enables them to escape any responsibility and they can then enjoy the feeling of being hard-done-by and the sympathy they are able to get from others as a result of their complaining.

Once you accept that what happens to you, even disagreeable things which come through the actions of others, is within your control, you will have taken the first and most important step to having a positive influence on the views of those others towards you.

Your behaviour directly affects others' behaviour towards you, regardless of whether it is favourable to you or not. So you might as well make it favourable, by in a way that creates positive attitudes towards you.

It can help to play a game with yourself, and behave "as if' you already had the job, status, money, popularity or whatever it is that you crave. Thoughts are like magnets - positive thoughts attract positive results, and negative thoughts attract negative results. By permitting yourself only positive thoughts, and acting them out in your behaviour, you are actually increasing the likelihood of achieving your desires. Everyone wants to be "successful", but often without further defining the term "success".

At a superficial level, success is often taken to refer to all the trappings of wealth such as luxury cars and designer clothes. This is only a rather limited view of success based on the accumulation of wealth. But to many, success is more subtle and more personal. It could be a real success to bring up a fine family of healthy and employable children, to overcome serious injuries following a motor accident, or to help a migrant to become proficient in the English language.

Success is really something that you create for yourself. By working to overcome your fear and your negative self-perceptions you will open the path to the fulfillment of your dreams.

Anne Clarke offers a free ebook, "Managing People", which provides all sorts of strategies, advice and tips to help you get on better at work, reduce stress,deal with difficult people and become a better co-worker and leader. Download it free from find out more at http://www.squidoo.com/managing-people

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