Assessing Your Personal Needs

While assessing your personal needs, sit down, relax and take some quality time to ask yourself some questions?

1) Assess your wardrobe needs - you have some definite likes and dislikes.

2) Write down your favorite colors and fabrics, think about what people have commented on and complimented you on.

3) Your body has probable found its natural weight by now -maybe not but you have a sense of what looks good on you or maybe you could use some fashion guidance. Write down what styles make you feel good.

4) Have you had enough of the shopping rat-race, the traffic, the people, the time invested, the frustration of shopping numerous locations for hours on end and leaving with nothing, is it really worth it?

After you have assess your colors, fabrics, body type, personal preferences and frustration level and have written them down, contact several clothing websites that excite you and that you can afford.

Making the Most of your Mind

Just as the fuel we put into an automobile engine effects how it operates, so too the images we stuff into our minds affect how we think. To make the most of our minds, we need to feed our minds healthy thoughts and images, just as we feed healthy food to our bodies. What we put in our heads impacts what we think and feel. The messages we speak to ourselves can be negative or positive the process works both ways. If we learn to make positive, life-affirmng statements to ourselves we'll begin to believe them instead of negative statements. Our thoughts and emotions feed on what we put into our minds. So be positive! focus on strengths, tell yourself uplifting truths, expose your mind to good, positive, hope filled ideas and stories. Imagine yourself overcoming your greatest fears and becoming the best you can be.

Five Tips for Finding Flattering Clothes

(1) Know your body type and pick clothes to accentuate your strengths. (2)Know what colors best suit your skin tone, eye color and hair color.(3) Shop for a good fit. Even the most expensive garment will make you look bad if it doesn't fit right. (4) Make your choice based on fit, not the numbered size printed on the label. Sizing varies from maker to maker and brand to brand. A size 9 junior is one brand may be the equivalent of a size 13 junior in another. (5) Buy a few quality, well-fitting clothings pieces .

The point is that in order to look our best and feel our best, we need to wear clothes that fit properly. Above all, choose clothing that moves comfortably with you. When you squat down, bend over, or cross your arms in front of you, your clothing should still feel good on. It shouldn't feel tight or uncomfortable. Some people mistakenly think tight clothes look sexy; the truth is tight clothes make you look fat.