Mary Reggie - Change Your Habits Change Your Image: 20 Ways for a Brand New Winning Look

CHANGE YOUR HABITS
CHANGE YOUR IMAGE

20 Ways For A Brand New Winning Look

MARY REGGIE

Copyright 2014 by Mary Reggie.

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Rev. date: 03/27/2014

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Contents

This book is dedicated to the tens of thousands of students whom I have taught grooming & deportment over a period of years in Private Institutions of Higher Learning and

Corporate Organisations. Your interest and keen participation in all my sessions for aerobics, make-up, social etiquette, deportment and beauty, has never left me exhausted!

Thank you for being such wonderful learners, many of whom have become good friends.

I also thank my wonderful sons Andrew and Edward who are the energies in my life which my late husband, Jeevan, has left behind for me.

You shouldnt judge a book by its cover nor a man by his appearance, but lets face the harshness of reality. We all do it, if not all the time, at least some time or even most of the time. We make decisions about people within the first few seconds of meeting. In this modern society everything is influenced by ones physical appearance and behaviour. Your job, relationship and even happiness are influenced by the way you look and how you carry yourself. While this is an unfair statement, it is the truth.

If you dont want to make an effort to look your best you will go through life being unsure of yourself and without much confidence. If you have decided to work on your image, this is the book for you. Many of you have desires in life to be like someone else who is popular, successful, famous or beautiful. It is indeed a good sign to have ambition especially if you want to make some improvement in yourself. On the other hand, the moment you are contented with life and begin to accept yourself for who you are and accept your outlook, deterioration sets in and there will be no more zeal to achieve your dreams because you do not want to try or because you think that nothing can be done to change the way you are. Most of the things you do every day are habits and the wonderful thing about them is that you do not have to think about doing them. The dark side of habits is when you are at a point when you want try to change them. Aristotle said We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

Irrespective of your age, you will find various chapters in this book giving you the steps you need to in order to make an impression through your appearance and behaviour. This will be your responsibility to achieve but you will have all the tools you need to succeed. It aims to inspire you and give you the motivation to make changes in your life. Though it may be difficult for some, if you want to learn how to be sophisticated to get the attention in a crowded room, you need to make a habit of certain activities, which in no time you will master, that they become second to nature.

Why is being perceived as pretty so important to countless women. Is it because at some point girls who believe that intelligence was the key factor to success were led astray and made to believe that being pretty was more important. Intelligence cannot be seen but you can make people believe you are intelligence by the way you carry yourself and by what you say.

The Girl Who Rates A Second Look

Grooming is a square, old-fashioned word but it is an important one and in every generation it has its own significance. The well-groomed girl is the one who always stands out in a crowd. She is often remembered for how she looks or for how she carries herself with elegance. Often girls wonder what she has done, to have that captivating appearance. Why does she always rate a second glance no matter where she is? It is not her expensive clothes. In fact most of her dresses probably come from chain stores. It is not her stunning figure although she certainly is not too skinny or oversized. It is definitely not her exceptional beauty yet she is attractive in a natural, difficult-to-define way.

But then someone who wants to be the centre of attraction will think like a fashion model and will learn the importance of impeccable grooming very early in her life. She learns never to be caught by surprise of not being ready. She cannot afford to risk a huge assignment cropping up suddenly on the way when her hair needs washing or an interview with a top corporate organisation. She always has something nice to wear even if her best dress has been sent to the dry cleaners. All this sums up to a habit that she has cultivated that makes her never to take her looks lightly.

The rules that apply for this girl are just as what applies to any top model. Imagine that you are now a model and not anyone else. If you wake up feeling dull and put on your pair of old jeans and a casual top and do not put in any effort to wear makeup, you can be certain that you will run into the person in your life that you would most likely want to impress or it could be your best friend calling in on you looking her very best!

So the first rule of looking fabulous (your secret weapon in getting the most out of life) is never to be taken unaware. Keep up the attention to detail no matter how weary you are at bed time or how droopy you are in the morning. There are endless details to watch. Just make looking good, a habit. Think about this. You do not have to think about cleaning your teeth when you get up in the morning. You brush them from the force of habit. The answer is to be always beautifully groomed and to make all the other details into habits too. Every girls grooming chart details will have her own personal list. Make a note of your own weak spots so that you can check every day. For example, you may never go to bed without taking off every scrap of makeup no matter how tired you are. Something like this need not be added to your list. On the other hand, if you tend to let your clothes pile up, awaiting a wash, this should go on to your list. Make all the other details into habits too.

Good grooming means paying attention to every detail, day in and day out. There are hundreds of them and this book aims to get you to pay attention to the details that are necessary if you want to be the girl who rates a second look.

Honesty Check

If you are told that you are what your mother is, take the statement in good stride. Your mother is an indicator of how you will age. For those of you who look like your father you could also age like him. For example, if your father has skin discolouration, you have to avoid the sun as you are likely to have some form of pigmentation.

Examine everything that your parents experienced and these are good hints as to what is happening or is about to happen in your life.

You would have heard this statement, you are what you eat very often and there is so much truth in it. It takes years to put on those inches on your waistline and it also takes years to take them off. The older you get the more difficult it is for you to burn off those calories and one of the ways is to eat food that will increase your metabolic rate. You should take in more protein than carbs or you can exercise those inches away. Eating nutritious food with antioxidants can help you in areas that no creams can help. Simple bad habits such as not getting enough sleep will zap your energy and soon you will be acting like your grandmother.