How To Look Breathtaking

1. Get the right weight.  Remember, the right weight for you depends on your body (bones, height, etc).  Decide if you should be on the low, middle or high end depending on your bone size.
2. Exercise.  Set goals.  Walks at least 2,000 steps, go by bicycle or try outdoor activities.  Even after you've reached your desired weight, keep up the good work to maintain a healthy weight.
3. Eat fruit for breakfast.  Try apple slices, peach, mango or bananas for starters.  If you drink milk, this is really helps improve your weight, as breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
4. Eat a healthy snack before lunch.  Don't eat chocolate or things with a lot of fat.  100 calorie packs are OK, but it's better to eat fruits, carrot or celery sticks.  Most nutritionists agree six smaller meals per day is better than three meals a day.

5. Eat lunch around 12 noon.  You can have a grilled cheese sandwich with whole grain bread or a salad with lowfat or olive oil dressing.
6. Eat another snack before dinner.  Just eat a little, don't stuff yourself.  Again, eat healthy foods.
7. Eat dinner around 6pm.  It's OK to eat a little meat, like in slices.  Try tomato, eggs, pepper and peas instead of filling up with too much meat.
8. While water is great throughout the entire day.  Make sure you get plenty of juices such as orange juice and cran-grape and apple juice, as these are great sources of vitamins and helps fight off illness. 
   

Dress For Success

Apart from your expressions and manner, among the first things people notice about you is the way you dress.  Many highly creative people affect a casual indifference toward their personal appearance but in reality, they are making a purposeful statement.  In effect, they are saying: "I'm so good at what I do that I don't have to dress for success."

If you want to make it in any financial capital of the world, pay careful attention to the clothes you wear and the visual impact you have on others.  When dressing for the business world, follow the standard advice:  Dress for inclusion.  Look at what the people one or two steps up the corporate ladder from you are wearing and be guided by their tastes.  That is about the closest thing to universal advice that can be given in the realm of dressing.  Fads and fashions come and go and what is in today may be passe tomorrow. 

Women have greater latitude for individuality in fashion, but the general rule still applies.  In most businessess, it is best to avoid extremes.  Seductive or coquettish outfits may draw admiring stares, but they will not enhance your reputation as a businesswoman.

Solid colours in women's clothing convey a message of seriousness and character.  Plaids and prints are more whimsical.  In the business office, successful women may be seen wearing suits, dressess, coordinates and skirts with blazers.  Different colours flatter different women.  Find your best colours and stick with them.

If your job calls for briefcase, invest in a top quality one.  It will add to your successful image.  If you need to have a  pen in your breast pocket, make it an attractive one.  Avoid cheap plastic pens and never wear pocket liners for pens.

Both men and women should avoid extreme hairstyles.  Again, use the look cultivated by the most successful people in your field as a guide and adapt it to your own physical features.

If you look successful, you will feel more confident in your job and about reaching your goals.

First Impression

By Anna Lynn C. Sibal

So ladies, we all know the saying 'First impressions last'.  We meet these words as a catch phrase on some commercial on TV or the radio, or in some book or magazine that we happen to read. We hear our mothers and our girl friends alternately nag and advise us about making a good first impression. It is an idea that is deeply ingrained in most of us.

We are headed for a job interview, a first client call, a blind date, a dinner with potential in-laws, or whatever important meeting which would have us making new acquaintances. We are dressed to the nines, with our faces perfectly made up and not a hair out of place, and we smell great. Is that enough to make a good and lasting first impression?

Sadly, the answer to that is no. We may look great, just smashingly gorgeous, and that is just fine. But we may ruin what picture we have painted for ourselves at that first glance taken of us with our first move or the first word we utter. How then do we solve this dilemma and create an impression that truly lasts beyond first glance?

The first thing to do would be to make eye contact with the person you are meeting and maintain it for more than a second. And then you smile. Prolonged eye contact and a smile make for a good ice breaker and set the atmosphere for something friendly and pleasant.

If something bad happened to you before the meeting and it brought you to a foul mood, don't show it to the person you are meeting up with. Making a dour face and whining a lot at that first meeting would lead the other person to think that you are not at all nice to be with, so fake a good mood. Soon enough, you would not have to fake it, and you will start believing that you are feeling great all along.

If you are feeling nervous about this meeting, try to hide it by controlling your twitching, fidgeting, jittering, or whatever habit you may have that conveys anxiety. If you feel that you are not making good conversation, you can still redeem yourself by keeping the other person talking about himself. Also, try to talk more slowly. Nervous people have this tendency to talk too fast and to talk too much about themselves. Try to curb that and just let the other person speak.

Once the two of you get warmed up, just encourage him to talk more about himself. Do not be a narcissist by turning the conversation back to your own self. Respond genuinely to him and keep your gestures in sync to what he is saying, or else it would seem to him that you are bored and are not actually listening to what he is telling you. Flatter him with sincerity but do not overdo it.

First impressions truly last, whether it is for good or for bad. Make every impression you make good and lasting.