I hope you enjoy them as I have!

Until next time.

Your Friend in Success and Life

Leanne Annett

Chris Rewell is Australia’s leading image professional with 24 years experience in the business of image. She has over 20,000 corporate, community and individual clients and has featured in the media numerous times.

What are your top eight image tips for women?

1. Wear your ‘best colours’. You’ll look healthier and younger and feel fabulous rather than looking tired and old. The compliments you will receive will pep you up, especially if you are having one of those ‘tired and old’ days.

2. Wear clothing lines congruent with your bodyline. Your clothing will look like a natural extension of you rather than something a friend passed on.

3. Buy the best quality clothing you can afford in neutral tones that suit you. Then acquire appropriate fashion colours to update your wardrobe seasonally.

4. Buy ‘quality’ costume jewellery (if you are not able to purchase the real thing) and quality accessories seasonally to update your outfits.

5. Keep seasonal stories consistent. Cords and tweeds don’t generally mix with dressy fabrics such as satin and silk. However, if you choose to follow mixed stories, think the outfit through, from your hairstyle to your shoes, so that you pull it together to achieve the real thing and not a terrible faux pas.

6. Grooming is essential. Hair, hands, skin and make-up all need to be appropriately considered.

7. Your body is the basis of your physical presence. Take care of it, respect it and dress it as if you love it, especially when you are ‘between weights’ and biding time for your ‘real weight’ to arrive.

8. Get to know your body and love it. You have to live in it for a long time.

What are your top eight image tips for men?

1. Wear your ‘best colours’. You’ll look healthy and strong rather than burnt out and over-worked.

2. Wear clothing lines congruent with your bodyline. Your clothing should look like a natural extension of you. Clothing appropriate to your bodyline will compliment your presence rather than being a distraction or sabotaging your appearance.

3. Buy the best ‘quality’ clothing you can afford in neutral tones that suit you. Seasonally acquire shirts, ties and accessories to update your wardrobe.

4. Know your body. Are you long in the torso and short in the legs, or vice versa, or is your body balanced? Are you high waisted? Are your arms short and your neck long? Are your shoulders tapered or square? In order to buy the right shirts, jackets or suits you need to know your body.

5. Buy ‘quality’ clothing. Quality is an investment in the future and the result of intelligent effort. Find a quality menswear store and create a relationship with the staff. Quality stores generally have experienced and well-trained people to assist you.

6. The objective is to project an image of substance and presence without others realising the impact that your clothes are contributing. The man should be seen, not the clothing.

7. Immaculate grooming is essential and should be complemented with a strong, straight posture.

8. Have a plan - build a wardrobe, not a collection of individual outfits.

For more great tips, check in next week.

Until then,

Allan Poole

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Your Friend in Success and Life

Leanne Annett

David Straughton is an in-demand corporate and public speaker. Founder of Think Big and trainer to hundreds of companies on topics such as generating sales, improving productivity and much more.

What advice can you offer about employing Generation Y salespeople?

Focus on what’s important to Generation Y - most want a clear fast-track career path with the opportunity to move ahead.

Offer freedom within boundaries - clearly spell out the house-rules upfront.

Build more trust - make them feel respected and important from day one (think about business cards and impressive job titles).

Assist in their development - help with quality training and development. For example, coaching, mentoring, special project work and the opportunity to learn from mistakes.

Be flexible - when it comes to rostering, time off and your attitude to decision-making, ensure that you consider their input - be an asker, and not a teller.

Provide unlimited praise, support and encouragement - Generation Y might think they are great, but many of them have little resilience. So go easy on the negativity and harsh discipline.

Make work like a game - provide lots of fun and competition. They need work to be like a game with action, a sense of urgency, continuous continual scoring and feedback, challenges and opportunities to access ‘game cheats’ (a fast fast track to playing at high levels).

In the US, Wendy’s Restaurants uses a great model called FAMILY when dealing with Generation Y.

F is for ‘fun’ - make the job exciting and challenging.

A is for ‘applaud’ - recognise your people with rewards and thanks.

M is for ‘model’ - ‘walk the talk’ and set a great example.

I is for ‘involvement’ - ask and use other people’s input.

L is for ‘lead’ - lead, train and develop people.

Y is for ‘yield’ - agree with some requests, especially when it involves rostering.

Remember, you will only receive respect from GGeneration Y after you have given respect to them. They are not cogs in a machine, but rather leaders in waiting. They seek an opportunity, not just a job, and want employers who care about them (and if you pretend to care about them, they will only pretend to work).

I hope you enjoyed this week’s success tip. Be sure to check in next week for the next installment.

Until then,

Allan Poole

After he founded Good Health Solutions, which is now Australia’s largest corporate health and wellbeing consultancy, Andrew continued to work with professional athletes and is now considered one of Australia’s leading experts on performance.

What are your seven steps for successful goal-setting?

1. Ask yourself the right questions - what do you want and why do you want to achieve it? How much does it really mean to you? What are the benefits of achieving the goal? Who will be affected? Are you prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve the goal?

2. Involve significant others - don’t keep your goals to yourself. Enlist the support of your partner, family, friends and colleagues. This keeps you accountable, while at the same time forming a support group to keep you on track.

3. Get anchored - write your goals down on a sheet of paper, simplify them into point form and then display them somewhere you can view them regularly - your diary, office, car, even on the back of the toilet door.

4. Small bites - George Miller, a 1950s psychologist, believed that we can only deal with seven bits of information at any one time. Any more than this and we need to group things into more memorable, manageable chunks. So when you create your master plan for the New Year, keep goals to a manageable number and group similar areas.

5. Set a plan - after you have written down your specific goals, the next step is to work out a specific plan. Identify the key steps you need to take toward accomplishing your goals and assign specific dates for their achievement.

6. Project the future - review your goals at least every seven days (every day is ideal) - and don’t leave it for another year. This helps activate the Reticular Activating System (RAS). The RAS is an inbuilt goal-setting device that tracks us toward our target and filters the type of information we let into our internal system. Spend time thinking about what it will be like once you have successfully achieved your goals. How are you going to feel? We really do become what we think!

7. Be realistic and reward yourself along the way - it is important to reward yourself along the way as you tick off your achievements. Give yourself a pat on the back for sticking to the process.

And remember, humans make mistakes, so don’t beat yourself up if you lose focus. If you find yourself breaking resolutions or experiencing distractions, sit down and go through the goal-setting process again, starting from step one.

If you enjoyed this week’s success tip, make sure to check back for next week’s installment.

Until then,

Allan Poole

Here are more of the “Quote of the Day” from iLifestyleClub recently.

They continue to be a source of inspiration for me. I hope they are an inspiration for you also!

Until next time.

Your Friend in Success and Life

Leanne Annett