Why dress for success?

Dressing has always been one of the higher priorities in the history of man. Since the Stone Age, dressing was an essential part of survival, as well as eating. The social evolution of man has now changed our priorities: if you’re satisfied with food and body protection, you’re now looking for social acceptance; dressing is one of the most important factors in defining the first reaction other people are going to have with you.

Also nothing nowadays is the result of a single person effort; our social life is now part of our survival as eating and sleeping. And how we look at a fist glance will set the tone for our interaction with other people we meet for the first time.

So should not come out as a surprise that a nice share of the success is the direct result of the way you dress and behave; this is why this topic has been studied thoroughly since very long topic. I’ve resumed here the top 4 tips from the experts.

Modern dress for success tip #1: Dress with quiet elegance

In order to dress for success in your day-to-day life you will need to develop a sense of quiet elegance. It’s not necessary using your wage to buy expensive clothes. And even if you do, you have not to be loud. Simple elegance will do the trick: exploit colours and accessories.

Modern dress for success tip #2: Dress with nose

Don’t be offended by this obvious principle: your body odour adds to the way you look.

Hence, investing in some good perfume (plus an effective deodorant) will go a long way to promote a positive first impression. Maybe you had experience of being near someone with a bad smell: every time you are going to meet him, this is the first thing you’re going to remember.

Modern dress for success tip #3: Understand the social etiquette

It is very important when you cultivate the dress for success habit, to develop the required etiquette as well.

Every social context has its own etiquette. You should know how to address an interviewer when you enter the room, you should know how to offer a chair to a woman in a restaurant; you should know how to dance at a formal party and so on.

Etiquette is not just “good manners”, but refers to the correct social formal behaviour in a social context. In other words, you can never dress for success without having the right attitude and correct etiquette.

Modern dress for success tip #4: Dress according to your counterparty expectations

If you want to create a positive impression on your counterparty, the dress code will be very important. It will set his or her judgement base and will imprint their first impression about you. This is equally important with personal relationships (are you going to a date?) and social relationships as well (are you going for a job interview?).

The more formal the context, the more formal the dress. This is a simple rule. So for a job interview the safest bet would be a business suit, tie, and black shoes.

From modern dress for success tips to action

These dress for success tips will help you in getting started on being quickly accepted in your social goals. Of course they are just tips and you have to find your own twist. But the first success principle is that nothing happens without action.

So exploit these dress for success tips to make reaching your social goals easier. If you are dressing for success, you’ll get through your path more easily, but you have still to follow through. These tips are just the start: you have to learn taking action and going ahead. You can learn how the power of action after these modern dress for success tips will help you reaching your goals.

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A phrase from Byron Katie’s book, A Thousand Names For Joy, came to mind: arguing with reality. That is what all of the agitation in the gate area was about. The plane was late. That was reality.

Passenger: I’m supposed to be in Vegas tonight.
Reality: The plane is late.

Passenger: Why do things like this always happen to me?
Reality: The plane is late.

Passenger: Damned incompetent airlines!
Reality: The plane is late.

Passenger: We should have taken an earlier flight.
Reality: The plane is late.

And then comes the zinger. The paragraph that went - for me anyway - straight to the heart of it:

When you argue with reality, you just can’t win. Never. The attempt carries with it some measure of utterly avoidable unhappiness and stress.

How often do you find yourself arguing with reality? How much energy have you wasted railing against what is?

I know my own answers to those questions are, “Too often,” and, “Too much.”

As Dick points out, reality will always have the upper hand. You can’t win an argument with it, and the energy you waste with frustration and anger could be put to infinitely better use.

When I accept reality, I can start putting the time and energy into asking, “OK, given this situation, what can I do? What steps can I take? Where can I go? How can I use my time?”

In short, it takes me out of victim mode and lets me put my energy into moving forward.

–

Curt Rosengren, Passion Catalyst (sm)

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by Curt Rosengren

on May 9, 2007, 4:29PM

That got me thinking about how I’ve seen that play out. One of the things I often see people do is limit themselves because they’re afraid to be “wrong,” or to look “stupid.” In the interest of only letting their strokes of genius out into the light, they start to choke off their idea flow. Paradoxically, that makes it that much less likely that any strokes of genius will see the light of day.

Donald points out that there’s actually a multiplier effect at work when it comes to letting the ideas fly:

If I have two ideas - A and B - I can only derive one new idea from those which is AB. If I have three ideas - A, B, and C - I can derive four new ideas which are AB, AC, BC, and ABC. If I have four ideas - A, B, C, and D - I can then derive eleven new ideas which are AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, CD, ABC, ABD, ACD, BCD, and ABCD.

To give you clearer picture of the exponential effect, here are the numbers above and some more:

• 2 ideas generate 1 new ideas.
• 3 ideas generate 4 new ideas.
• 4 ideas generate 11 new ideas.
• 5 ideas generate 26 new ideas.
• 6 ideas generate 57 new ideas.
• 7 ideas generate 120 new ideas.

He goes on to outline some suggestions for ratcheting up the volume on your ideas.

If you want to create the best life for yourself you can, opening yourself to the broadest expanse of ideas possible is vital. You can only act on what you know about, and if what you know about is limited, so is your potential.

There is so much potential swirling all around us, it’s mind-boggling. Opening yourself to the exponential nature of ideas will help you discover that potential.

–

Curt Rosengren, Passion Catalyst (sm)

Time for a career change? Launch it with…
The Occupational Adventure Guide:
A Travel Guide to the Career of Your Dreams

Originally
from The Occupational Adventure (sm)

by Curt Rosengren

on May 8, 2007, 4:28PM

Dads, if you’re reading this, please don’t be offended — we’ll be heaping plenty of praise on you in a few weeks. But this Sunday is Mother’s Day after all, and we sons and daughters have a whole bunch of reasons to be thankful for our moms. Hare are five that come to mind:

1. Our Mothers Taught Us to Work Hard: If we have a good work ethic — and we think that we do — it’s grounded in plenty of encouragement and positive reinforcement from Mom in our early years.
2. Our Mothers Reminded Us to Keep Our Elbows Off the Table: What better lesson to teach a youngster than to have good manners. We sure keep those teachings in mind today during dining interviews and networking events.
3. Our Mothers Told Us to Be Patient: We’ll admit to struggling with this dictum from time to time, especially when dealing with that toxic coworker in the adjacent cubicle. But for the most part, we’re able to keep our tempers in check.
4. Our Mothers Showed Us the Power of Love: We know that falling in love in the workplace can be a risky proposition, but it isn’t easy walking away from true romance.
5. Our Mothers Trained Us to Battle Through Tough Times: Getting fired — or losing our job for any reason — is no fun, but we’ve learned not to mope around for too long. After all, we have our next job search to worry about.