LOOK IMPORTANT-IT HELPS YOU THINK IMPORTANT

Remember, your appearance “talks.” Be sure it says positive things about you. Never leave home without feeling certain you look like a kind of person you want to be.

You can usually spot a wrong kids just by the way he looks. Sure it’s unfair, but it’s a fact: people today judge a young star by appearance. And once they’ve tabbled a boy, it’s tough to change their minds about him, their attitude toward him. Look at your boy. Look at him through his teacher’s eyes, your neighbor eyes, could the way he looks, the clothes he wears, give them the wrong impression? Are you making sure he looks right. Dresses right, everywhere he goes.

It cost little to be neat. Dress right, it always pays. Remember: look important because it helps you think important and also it’s help you to think big.

Use clothing as tool to lift your spirits, build confidence. An old psychology professor of mine used to give this advice to students on last-minute preparations for final examination: “Dress up for this important exam. Get a new tie. Have your suit pressed. Shine your shoe. Look sharp because it will help you think sharp.”

Your physical exterior affects your mental interior. How you look on the outside affects how you think and feel on the inside.

Your physical appearance affect your thinking. A soldier feel and think as a soldier when he is in uniform. A woman feels more like going to a party when she is dressed for a party. A student feels and think as a student when he or she put on a school uniform.

By the same token, an executive feels more like an executive when he is dressed like one. A salesman expressed it to me this way: “I can’t feel prosperous and I have to if I’m going to make big sales-unless I know I look that way.”

Your appearance talks to you: but it also talks to others. It helps determine what others think of you. In theory, it’s pleasant to hear that people should look at a man’s intellect, not his clothes. But don’t be misled. People do evaluate you on the basis of your appearance. Your appearance is the first basis for evaluation other people have.

When you package yourself highly expensive, you will sale yourself so expensive. Any moment you want to sell yourself to people, properly package yourself, you have a better chance to make more money through your appearance.

What I am trying to say is: the better you are packaged, the more public acceptance you will receive.

When you dress need. People will respect you in the restaurant, when you package yourself very well people they will value in stores and at work. When you dress very need, you will be recognize specially in the meeting.

We look at some people and respond with the “Hey, Mac” attitude. We look at others and respond with the “Yes, Sir” feeling.

Yes, a person’s appearance definitely talks. The well-dressed person’s appearance says positive things. It tells people, “Here is an important person: intelligent, prosperous, and dependable. This man can be looked up to, admired, trusted. He respects himself, and I respect him.

The shabby-looking fellow’s appearance says negative things. It says, “here is a person who isn’t doing well. He’s careless, inefficient, unimportant. He’s just an average person. He deserves no special consideration. He’s used to being pushed around.”

Appearance is important. But how do you expect me to afford the kind of clothing that really makes me feel right and that causes others to look up to me?

That question puzzled many people. It plagued me for a long time. But the answer is really a simple one: pay twice as much and buy half as many. Commit this answer to memory. Then practice it. Apply it to hats, suits, shoe, socks, coats – everything you wear. Insofar as appearance is concerned, quality is far more important than quantity. When you practice this principle, you’ll find that both your respect for yourself and the respect of others for you will zoom upward. And you will find you are actually ahead money-wise when you pay twice as much and by half as many because:

1.      Your garments will last more than twice as long because they are more than twice as good, and as a rule they will show “quality” as long as they last.

2.      What you buy will stay in style longer. Better clothing always does.

3.      You will get better advice. Merchants selling N80,000.00 suits are usually much more interested in helping you find the garment that is “just right” for than are merchants selling N40,000.00 suits.

Remember: your appearance talks to you and it talks to others. Make certain it says, “Here is a person who has self respect. He’s important. Treat him that way.”

You owe it to others-but, more important, you owe it to yourself to look your best.

You are what you think you are. If your appearance makes you think you are inferior, you are inferior. If your appearance make you think small, you are small. Look your best and you will think and act your best.