Jack up your style
I don’t know about you, but when I am really intentional about how I get dressed up in the morning and I look good, it affects my whole day positively.Â
Jack up your style!
I don’t know about you, but when I am really intentional about how I get dressed up in the morning and I look good, it affects my whole day positively. It has been proved in various studies that dressing well definitely affects your psychologically. Even different colours affect how you present yourself and how other people see you.Â
Like what you see
My coach believes that you should always dress in decent gym gear while working out. It is just so much better to like what you see when you look in the mirror. When all you see is baggy pants and a saggy T-shirt, this does not motivate you to keep going. It does not matter what your body looks like right now, dress for the body you have now and do it with proper fitting clothes.
When you don’t dress well, you send yourself a message that you don’t matter. You are not worth it. You may say that you chose to dress like this, but this means you have purposefully chosen to do this. There is a difference between just throwing anything on and choosing to dress in a certain way.
Judge a book by its cover – Jack up your style
Studies have showed that other people make up their mind about you within 3 seconds. Unfortunately, people do judge a book by its cover, they judge you by what you wear. In the city I live in, we have a lot of homeless people on street corners begging for food and money.Â
Most of them just look terrible, and I am sure this is intentional, as they garner a lot of sympathy from passing motorists. However, occasionally you get a beggar who dresses fairly smartly, I know for me, I am more likely to dole out some money to him or her.
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I have been talking mostly about dressing, but there are other ways to jack up your style. What does the state of your home look like? And your car? This is part of your style. When your house and car are messy, your thoughts are messy and you, for sure, will not show up as a “together” person, who has their life in order.
The more stuff you have, the more brain space you take up
Clean your house, get rid of all the clutter in your cupboards, clean out that room you just throw things into to get it out the way. By opening up the space, you are also opening up your mind, you are allowing more intentional thoughts in your mind. The more stuff you have, the more brain space you take up.
For example, every time you see that shirt lying on the floor, you think you need to pick it up and that magazine that is lying around or the pair of shoes by the door. This takes up brain space and it niggles at you.
When everything has been put away, your surfaces are neat and clean, you get a real sense of satisfaction that there is order in your world. The same goes for your car, if it is full of old take-out cartons, empty cans, tissues, mud, doggie smells, it detracts from your sense of peace and order.
Jack up your style
I often speak about your future you, that person you want to become. The person who has lost the weight, the person who has made the money, the person who is married, the person who is a success. How does she dress? What does her home look like, what does her car look like? Where does she spend her time? I can assure you she does not look like something the cat dragged in, she is not messy on her person or in her environment.
She
She takes care of herself. She knows she is worthy. She knows she deserves the very best of everything. She has upleveled her style and her surroundings. She is in charge of her thoughts and feelings. So she is showing up in a whole different way which means she achieves the results she is after.
Do not discount any of this, it is important. I dare you to a 30-day challenge.
- Dress up every day as the person you are striving to be, overdress if you have to. Every single day, even your off days, dress comfortably but well. No baggy, torn clothes and messy hair.
- Clean your house, put things away every day, wash the dishes, pick up the clothes. I promise you this takes much less time than you think.
- Have your car cleaned once a week, take out all the trash every day when you get home.
- Put yourself in better surroundings, go to a restaurant instead of going for take-out, or have a drink at that fancy bar you have been eyeing instead of the local around the corner.
This is going to take a bit of effort and planning, but it will be so worth it. Let me know how this changed your life and what aha’s came about for you.
Till next week.
A
Xxx
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