Follow These Tips For The Next 21 Days To Acquire Body Image Esteem,
Self-Acceptance, Self-Love and Personal Power.
 
1. After you bathe or shower—stand in front of your full-length mirror
in your birthday suit and admire your beautiful body.
 
2. Put your favorite slow music on and start a slow dance with your body
as you continue to admire your body in the mirror.
 
3. Create your own positive affirmations and affirm your body now, and
throughout the day.
 
4. Look at yourself lovingly as you affirm all the positive traits and
characteristics of your body by telling yourself what you love about
your body and how proud you are of that part of your body.
 
6. Feel the love that God has poured into your body as you moisturize
and caress it with your favorite lotions and oils, all while slow
dancing with your body.
 
7. Be present with yourself and your body so you can get to know
yourself better, your individuality, your personality and your untapped
potentiality.
 
8. Notice your body language becoming more positive and powerful.
 
9. Think of your life flowing just the way you want it to flow, then pay
attention to how that makes you feel.
 
10.  Reflect on these feelings as you move throughout your amazing day.
Notice that when you're feeling bad you're thinking badly. You can't
always monitor your thoughts, but, you sure can monitor your feeling.
 
I'm excited for you because I know you're very capable of loving and
working what you've got, darling--that special quality that sets you
apart.
 
Chloé Taylor Brown
www.chloetaylorbrown.com
Author of Getting Ready Chloé-Style: Perfecting Your Authentic Image
 

Okay, initially, I want you to invest in basic styles in quality
fabrics. Don't dry clean your clothes too much—spot clean them; and
repair them as soon as you rip or tear them.

Check to see if you have these pieces already, if not I want you to
start incorporating them into your existing wardrobe. And remember this,
which applies to men and women and to any profession, obviously, though;
if you're a classic teacher your key pieces will look different from a
conservative attorney or a glamorous entertainer; it depends on your
lifestyle.

A Basic Wardrobe for Professional Women Can Include:

1. A basic matched three-piece suit (the jacket, skirt and slacks) in
your best dark color.

2. A great pair of classic, well fitting black pants.

3. A fabulous pair of blue or black jeans.

4. A dark tailored skirt in a lightweight wool or silk.

5. A second skirt in a shade that you love.

6. A pair of versatile khakis.

7. The white shirt is the classic staple. Buy as many as you can in
different styles, lengths, shapes and fabrics, however, a 100% crisply
starched cotton shirt looks fresh and classic all the time. You can
never have too many white shirts.

8. A blouse in a beautiful jewel tone or icy color in silk or cotton.

9. A long sleeved black or dark turtleneck or mock in either fine wool
or silk.

10. A short sleeved or sleeveless black or dark turtleneck or mock in
either fine wool or silk.

11. A blazer or cardigan.

12. A sweater in a beautiful jewel tone or icy color.

13. A little black dress for a work to evening look.

14. A black lace shell dresses up any jacket. Or wear it alone with a
dark camisole underneath.

15. Every woman must own a classic Black Hand bag. Be sure that the bag
is not too big.

16. A good quality black leather belt in a classic style.

17. Pearls add elegance to any ensemble. You can have fun by mixing
lengths, but stick to similar colors and sizes.

18. Add a great chocker necklace and the rest can stay simple.

19. A good quality basic black pump in leather.

20. A basic pair of good quality flats.

21. Fabulous sunglasses.

22. Necklace, earrings and bracelets in gold or silver.

23. Proper undergarments.

24. Great hair, nice nails and a beautiful smile

The Basic Wardrobe for Professional Men Can Include:

1. Two suits (dark-ish colors) make a great foundation – the core of
your wardrobe.

2. A pair of dress black pants in wool fabric.

3. A pair of dress gray pants in wool fabric.

4. A pair of blue, brown or black pants in a cotton fabric.

5. A pair of great fitting blue or black jeans.

6. 2 well-fitting jackets—depending on your profession, you can be as
fly or conservative as you like.

7. An earth tone tweed, single breasted, silk-blend sports coat.

8. Shirts and tops:
• White, cream, light blue button-down Oxford shirt.
• White, cream banded collar shirt.
• Black/white/blue striped Oxford shirt.
• Grey/black/blue or cream fine-gauge turtleneck
• White, cream, blue (all ranges), rust solid polo-styled shirt.

9. Ties (suggested number: 4)
• Geometric ties in cream/black/gray/white/burgundy/blue
combinations--black, gray, or taupe textured ties.

10. Sweaters—solid navy/ black/cream crew-neck sweater to coordinate
with pants. Crew or V neck to coordinate with pants

11. Belts (suggested number: 2) Black and brown or burgundy leather
belts.

12. Shoes (suggested number: 2 pair) Brown, black leather, woven
loafers.

13. Well fitting sneakers or sports shoes.

14. One stylish jogging suit.

15. Cufflinks.

16. A great watch.

17. Great sunglasses.

18. Great hair, nice nails and a beautiful smile.

When thinking about enhancing or creating your basic wardrobe it's
important to remember that your lifestyle and how you naturally flow.
With these key fashion pieces, you have a great foundation for the start
of a versatile professional wardrobe. Enjoy your authenticity.

Chloé Taylor Brown
Author of Getting Ready Chloé-Style: Perfecting Your Authentic Image
www.chloetaylorbrown.com

In order to unleash and maintain your authenticity and stay the course
you must be able to hold your position. The way you hold your position
is by maintaining your power. Your power comes from knowing who you are
and standing firm in that certainty and the holographic vision you've
created for yourself and your life. In addition to this, darling, I want
you to look fabulous and feel good about your visual appearance, your
outer image, which should be a reflection of the real you.

Keep this in mind as you're creating and perfecting your authentic
image:

1. No matter what society or the media tries to dictate about your body,
body image and beauty, you must understand that it's superficial—it's
not real. They want you to remain insecure about your looks, your body,
your talents, and who you are so they can keep you in the stores
shopping. If you buy into what they're selling you'll never feel good
enough.

2. If you choose to embrace the uniqueness of your body, your
personality and the individuality of your being, you'll have incredible
personal power and will be able to hold your position. Did you know it
is impossible to hold your position consistently when you hate your
body?

3. If you determine that you are going to be your best self—your
genuine, real self in all that you do, you'll increase your personal
power.

4. If you enhance or design your personal image to harmonize with your
body type and shape, and who you want to be in the world, you'll perfect
your authentic image and increase your personal power.

Darling, you already have everything you need to be the best you; all
you have to do is go within and draw forth from what is already there,
to master each piece then allow yourself and others to enjoy the
masterpiece called you. How do you feel about that?

Chloé Taylor Brown
www.chloetaylorbrown.com

I'll let you in on a little process to run on yourself that will start
transforming your thinking about yourself in no time.

1. Commit to discovering and liberating your authentic self—the real
you; not who everyone else thinks you should be. This is about your
heart's desire, your innate abilities and your potential.

2. Know that you are indeed a masterpiece, multi-dimensional with many
parts to your life that make up the whole you. The way to unleash the
beauty of the masterpiece (the beauty in all aspects of your life) is to
master each part of your life based on what you say you WANT, YOUR
HEART'S DESIRE.

3. Make your goal (your heart's desire) holographic by defining it and
attaching details to it that will help you to get into the spirit of
what you say you want. This will help you to sharpen your vision and get
you more excited about what you're creating.

4. At this point you will start FEELING really good about yourself. This
is the time to start directing that fabulous creative energy of yours
into your intentional desire or goal by reaching out and taking
appropriate actions and putting that energy into your actions.

5. This vision will act like software you pop into your computer—your
mind. Run this program—your vision many many times each day and pay
attention to your feelings.

6. Notice your mood level increase; you'll become more passionate and
excited about life. You'll start attracting very interesting individuals
into your life who are excited about you, your life games and what
you're creating and you'll start helping each other.

7. Then, watch and pay attention as you start winning big in life.

If you determine your ideal, define your heart's desire, create a clear
vision and set goals to reach your ideal, and then let that become your
way of life, your lifestyle and your work, you'll increase your personal
power and empower the world.

Chloé Taylor Brown
www.chloetaylorbrown.com

REMEMBER THIS: IF YOU CAN'T DEFINE IT... YOU CAN'T HAVE IT.

After defining your life game I want you to be clear about your
intentions. So, before stepping out of your home everyday I want you to
ask yourself the following questions:

1. What are my intentions for today?
2. What image do I want to project today?
3. How do I want others to perceive me today?
4. Am I being authentic?"

When we speak about anything being authentic; we mean it is real,
reliable, bona-fide and genuine. If I were to purchase a designer
handbag from a street vendor in a major city, naturally, I would
question its authenticity. Even though it may look just as real as the
one a friend purchased from the designer store on Via Monte Napoléone in
Milan, Italy, it is not genuine. And with closer inspection and honesty,
I allow myself to admit that it is indeed a fake.

This is the same honesty we must permit ourselves to have about the
clothes that we wear and our image; which is the way we are perceived or
regarded by others. And we certainly don't want to forget our body image
and self-image—the way we feel about ourselves.

Darling, your image is your appearance, your look, or your persona, and
each of us has our own. It's called being authentic and being true to
yourself and the styles, cuts, fabrics and designers that work best for
your image, your body type and what you want to project about yourself
to the world.

Recently, the number of women who have become fashion followers has
troubled me. Many are purchasing fashions that are not complimentary to
their body types or their authentic image. A few months ago I worked
with a beautiful executive who had over sixty suits in her closet from
one particular designer, all beautiful. But, does any woman need over
sixty suits of any one designer hanging in her closet? When I asked her
about her wardrobe and why she had an excessive number of just one
designer she responded by saying, "This is what all the important women
are wearing." I knew my work was cut out for me at this point--she had
not been true to her authentic image. She had become a full-fledged
fashion follower.

I want you to understand that there is an absolute and profound power in
projecting your best image, which has nothing to do with what other
women are wearing. It's all about you, darling, your authenticity and
your individuality. It's about understanding how to incorporate
different designers and eclectic pieces into your wardrobe that reflect
your genuineness.

You must know that your selection of fashion has the potential to
influence in a powerful way; your own mood level, as well as the
impressions you make on others. In creating or recreating your image and
wardrobe all you have to remember is that you're already "da bomb"
darling. So let your selection of fashion and clothing reflect your
individuality, and watch how others perceive you as being the latest
fashion icon.

Trust me, they'll try to follow you and emulate your style; but, they
will not be able to pull it off, because its authentically you.

Chloé Taylor Brown
www.chloetaylorbrown.com

I am passionate about empowering you to make peace with your body and to
begin a proper love affair with yourself. Self-compassion is an absolute
must if you are going to move into your true essence, your authentic
self. If this is not absorbed and understood, your entire foundation may
crack; or it will be shaky, at best. Because your view of your body
determines how you treat yourself and how you allow others to treat
you—it determines what you can and will accomplish with your God-given
gifts. It also determines what you are willing to settle for in life.

1. Now is the time that we take control of our lives, and it starts with
making peace with our innate characteristics, by looking in the mirror
and smiling back at ourselves—storing up some self-love. You will be
amazed at the warm feelings that bounce off the mirror back toward you.

2. Stop standing in front of the looking-glass complaining about
everything that is wrong with your body. Build your self-esteem and your
self-worth by speaking affectionately toward yourself and about
yourself.

3. Compliment yourself on what you believe to be lovely about you and
your body.

4. Do this for twenty-one consecutive days and watch your confidence
soar.

Being confident has absolutely nothing to do with having a "just right"
body. It's about taking care of the body that God has given you and
being the best you in the whole wide world—especially in your own life,
today, right now. Forget about what other women are doing. This is about
you, darling, and the good news is it's perfect timing right now. You're
not too late or too early to take pride in taking care of yourself. You
deserve it—and I know you can do it.

Enhancing your body image and feeling good about yourself is essential
to becoming who you are supposed to become and discovering and
perfecting your authentic image. But, in order to be successful, you're
going to need a way to obtain a realistic evaluation of what a healthy
body is for you. Allow me to stress how important it is that you
understand this by asking you to think about the following for a moment.
Really! Think about these two questions:

1. What does a healthy body mean to you?

2. What is a healthy body for you?

Before you answer, keep in mind that all of us have a particular body
type, shape or silhouette. We have been genetically engineered to have
the body that we were born with. Who your parents are and who their
parents are have all played a part in what innate characteristics you
have acquired. With that bit of information, you can feel free to rid
yourself of the notion that there is a perfect body; there is no such
thing as a perfect body or a perfect body shape. Each shape has positive
and negative traits.

In getting this you will understand why certain fashions and styles look
absolutely amazing on you and why you look ridiculous in others. Also,
once you see what body type and body shape you have you will understand
what type of wellness and lifestyle maintenance program will work
naturally for you.

Darling, love to you, and don't forget to embrace your authenticity.
This is where your innate power lies.

Chloé Taylor Brown
www.chloetaylorbrown.com

This thing called body image is an essential aspect of your life and
your self-expression. It should never be ignored or made insignificant.
Your body image is essentially your power within.

Between the ages of thirteen and sixteen I felt horrible about myself.
On a scale of one to ten, I would have rated my confidence and body
image about a two or three. First, my mother was tragically killed in an
automobile accident, leaving me alone at the very time that I needed her
most. Then, it seemed almost overnight I grew to my present height of
five feet eleven inches tall. No matter how much Grandmamma tried to
fatten me up I could only muster up one hundred and ten pounds—soaking
wet. The only body parts that seemed to grow were my hands and feet.

I had horrible posture, none of my clothes fit properly, my hair was a
big bushy mess and I wore glasses that always seemed to look crooked. My
big feet hung over my shoes while I held on to myself as I walked—as
though I would fall over if I let go. Every girl had confidence—except
me, it seemed.

Yes, I had big problems, but the picture that I held in my mind's eye of
myself was even bigger; it was negative and self-destructive. That's
what "body image" is, a picture. That's right; it's like to a
three-dimensional photograph that we hold in the mind's eye of our
body—it's holographic. This perception is psychological, involving our
emotions and our imagination. And just when you've become comfortable
with hating one thing about your body, something else comes along and
you add that to the list. Yes, that picture in your mind's eye is ever
changing.

In order to effectively understand body image, it is necessary to first
understand that the foundation or the cause of body image lives within
aesthetics—in other words, an artistically beautiful or pleasing
appearance—and, let's face it, most of us want to be beautiful, or
attractive, or at least look good.

You know you like it when someone says to you, "Wow, you look good!"

How you determine beauty and the feelings derived from your perceptions
about beauty are subjective. Consequently, body image is a biased view
that we make about our own bodies, combined with what we think other
people think about our looks and the reaction we get from others. Now, I
know all of that sounds crazy, but it's true, and I'll explain next
time.

Are you ready to embrace your uniqueness?
Chloé Taylor Brown
www.chloetaylorbrown.com