55 Life and Style Lessons I’ve Learned — Inside Out Style

This month I turned 55, sure it’s exhausting to imagine as I don’t look a day over 32!  I hope that I’ve realized just some issues throughout my lifetime, a few of them I’m positive you’ll already know, and others could also be useful to you.  Right here goes…

1. Life is brief, spend time with folks you get pleasure from their firm, and folks you’re keen on
2. Your working life is even shorter, so try to discover one thing you’re keen on doing, that you simply’re captivated with, and that you simply really feel makes a constructive distinction not directly.
3. Spend time creating.  It could be in your backyard, within the kitchen, at your stitching machine, with some knitting needles, with a hammer, and even in your wardrobe.  Creativity improves psychological well being, chances are you’ll not suppose you’re “inventive” inventive, however there can be a manner you may harness your creativity, I’m positive of it.
4. Dense prints are nice for disguising lumps and bumps.
5. Be beneficiant together with your data.
6. Perfection is the enemy of action
7. Perfection is a form of fear
8. There isn’t any such factor as perfection, so cease looking for or create it
9. Strive issues out, experiment.  Analysis reveals that the extra you do and take motion, the higher you get and the extra rapidly it occurs.  This goes for creating outfits in addition to every part else.
10. There’s by no means a “proper” or excellent time to do one thing, so chances are you’ll as properly cease placing issues off and begin now.
11. Make sure that your work aligns together with your values
12. Cease worrying about what another person thinks of your outfit, gown to precise your persona
13. Not everybody will such as you, whether or not you try to “be” somebody you’re not, or whether or not you simply be your self
14. It’s a lot much less tiring simply to be you.
15. Fashion is a hammer, it’s a software to construct your private type house.
16. When one thing doesn’t work the way in which you need, it’s not failure, it’s a lesson.
17. You might be by no means too previous to study.
18. Ensure you have your personal private type standards earlier than you ever go purchasing for garments, that manner you gained’t be tempted to purchase issues that sit within the wardrobe unworn (should you don’t know them, you may develop them with my online program 7 Steps to Style).
19. Being exhausting on your self is extra prone to make you cease attempting somewhat than encourage you to enhance
20. All feelings are transient, whether or not it’s anger, jealousy, pleasure or happiness, you may’t be completely satisfied each minute of on daily basis.
21. The extra you’re you, the extra the best folks will love you
22. The extra you study the extra you uncover that there’s a lot extra you could possibly probably know and that you simply’ll by no means actually know a lot about something, and that’s fully regular and OK
23. Your physique will change, your colouring will change, your tastes will change and so your wardrobe ought to change with you in every season of your life
24. Use your values as a information to your wardrobe, buying and outfit decisions
25. When you don’t know your values, determine them out as they function an important touchstone for each resolution you make in your life.
26. Don’t throw out a garment simply because it hasn’t been worn up to now 6 months or yr.  Let it go if it’s not you, should you can’t think about sporting it once more, it doesn’t suit you, you don’t really feel good in it , if it doesn’t fit your present way of life, local weather or location.
27. The colours that make you shine are these which might be inherent in you.  They exist already in your hair, pores and skin, lips and eyes.  These change by way of your lifetime because the pigments in your hair, pores and skin, lips and eyes change.
28. There isn’t any proper reply.  You might be a person, as are the opposite 8 billion folks on this planet.  There isn’t any one proper outfit, or proper physique form, or proper type.  What’s best for you isn’t proper for everybody.
29. Don’t purchase off must-have lists.  This refers again to you being a person.  Simply because it’s proper for the one who wrote the checklist, doesn’t imply it’s best for you.
30. Simply because the salesperson has been very useful doesn’t imply you should purchase one thing you don’t completely love, that may work with a number of stuff you already personal, and that matches your way of life and private type standards.
31. You aren’t a thoughts reader and neither am I, which is why I after I get emails and folks ask me “What ought to I’ve in my wardrobe?”  my reply is “I do not know”.  It’s because I don’t know you, your preferences, physique, colouring, way of life, location, tradition, values,  private preferences…. and the checklist goes on
32. Be versatile, if in case you have a really set thought of what you need, you usually tend to be disenchanted because it’s virtually not possible to search out that actual factor/individual/look/fill-in-the-blank
33. Don’t purchase something that doesn’t go together with not less than 4 different gadgets in your wardrobe, then you definitely gained’t have wardrobe orphans.
34. Take care of your physique.  You’re the one in control of it, and you’re the one who will reap the rewards (or really feel the ache).
35. Discover train you’re keen on (or can not less than tolerate to do not less than 3-4 instances per week).  Not everyone seems to be sporty (I’m positive not), however train is not only good on your physique, it’s good on your mind, your well being, your longevity, your psychological wellness.
36. Probably the most time wasted is the time between making a call and admitting to your self you’ve made the choice, then appearing on it.
37. Unsure what your resolution is?  Strive heads and tails, select one reply to be heads, the opposite to be tails, toss the coin within the air and see which aspect you hope the coin comes down on.  That’s your resolution.
38. Be glad about the small issues, and see the small issues. 
39. Your wardrobe is like a kitchen, it needs to be a sensible place, the place you may simply discover the elements and instruments it’s good to create scrumptious outfits.
40. Simply since you love a garment in a single color, doesn’t imply you should purchase it in each color it is available in.  
41. See the nice somewhat than specializing in the dangerous. What you deal with expands.
42. Don’t buy groceries with out a checklist of issues that you simply really need, that may fill your wardrobe gaps.
43. Let it go… within the well-known phrases of the movie Frozen.  A lot time, and vitality is wasted if you don’t let it go.
44. Concentrate on enhancing what you’re nice at somewhat than your weaknesses, as you’ll by no means be nice at your weaknesses, however you is usually a genius at what you’re naturally nice at
45. Solely purchase what you may afford, don’t go into debt for the most recent look.
46. Dress your portrait area first. Make that the point of interest of your outfit somewhat than obsessing about camouflaging physique elements.
47. Respect that different folks suppose otherwise from you.  That’s OK.  You don’t must be mates or be on the identical web page as everybody.  Simply respect that others could not maintain the identical views or values as you.
48. Being form doesn’t imply being a doormat or letting others at all times have their manner.
49. The dimensions on the labels of your clothing is irrelevant and isn’t an indication of your price.
50. Social media is a “highlights” actual and never actuality.  Their life will not be as glamorous or thrilling as it could seem.
51. By no means say “By no means”, you don’t know should you’ll change your thoughts sooner or later, and it’s at all times OK to vary your thoughts.
52. It’s OK to cry, it releases the stress hormone cortisol out of your physique.
53. Get to know your stunning physique and what creates concord with it – the silhouettes, the materials, the types of garments (should you don’t have that type of type schooling, I’m right here to assist with my 7 Steps to Style program which has all that – and extra  – inside)
54. When you don’t have management over one thing, cease worrying about it.  When you do have management and don’t prefer it, change it.
55. Garments are like milk, they go off over time, so wear your good clothes before they become dated.

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