First impressions are apt to be permanent; it is therefore of importance that they should be favourable. The dress of an individual is that circumstance from which you first form your opinion of him. It is even more prominent than manner, It is indeed the only thing which is remarked in a casual encounter, or during the first interview. It, therefore, should be the first care.

What style is to our thoughts, dress is to our persons. It may supply the place of more solid qualities, and without it the most solid are of little avail. Numbers have owed their elevation to their attention to the toilet. Place, fortune, marriage have all been lost by neglecting it.

Your dress should always be consistent with your age and your natural exterior. That which looks outr, on one man, will be agreeable on another. As success in this respect depends almost entirely upon particular circumstances and personal peculiarities, it is impossible to give general directions of much importance. We can only point out the field for study and research; it belongs to each one’s own genius and industry to deduce the results. However ugly you may be, rest assured that there is some style of habiliment which will make you passable.

If, for example, you have a stain upon your cheek which rivals in brilliancy the best Chateau-Margout; or, are afflicted with a nose whose lustre dims the ruby, you may employ such hues of dress, that the eye, instead of being shocked by the strangeness of the defect, will be charmed by the graceful harmony of the colours. Every one cannot indeed be an Adonis, but it is his own fault if he is an Esop.

Almost every defect of face may be concealed by a judicious use and arrangement of hair. Take care, however, that your hair be not of one colour and your whiskers of another; and let your wig be large enough to cover the whole of your red or white hair. It is evident, therefore, that though a man may be ugly, there is no necessity for his being shocking.

After the fight and breakup, it takes a few days to realize that you really loved that girl but at times it’s already too late. When you lose her from your life she most of the times takes away the tranquility and calmness. Therefore the moment you realize that you have made a mistake and you want her back, you should not delay in adopting the appropriate measures to win her back. It’s easier said than done to get a girl friend back especially if she is fond of another male friend. It will not be as easy as a walk in the park to get her back into your good graces more or less win her heart back.
The name of the game to win a girls heart is patience. Very few girls would leap into another relationship without finally knowing that the first one went sour. They might commit to memory the good times you had together but they would also be aware of the unpleasant times and will not believe in the relationship. This is a typical reaction considering the hurt they went through from the past relationship. Make sure you by no means make the mistake of taking your relationship for granted if you do happen to win her back.

You can always run to her friends for help if everything else fails. Have her close friends take action by delivering gifts to her that you have purchased and conceal your name for the time being. Make her wonder who the secret admirer is that is giving her such lavish gifts and when you think it’s the right time, identify yourself to her. Let her know that you are still under her magic and charm and that you are not complete without her in your life. You will not be a whole person again until she agrees to be your girlfriend again.

Today, i am going to talk about my self esteem result. Recently i found a test that measures your self esteem credit. Actually i do not believe this kind of tests but this one is a bit trustable ( i hope ). Anyway, you can reach this test from here. This self esteem test has 10 questions and it takes nearly 5 minutes. Also, this test is hosted by one of  discovery’s websites, which make it a bit trustable, is DiscoveryHealth. On the other hand whether or not it won’t be trustable, what will you lose. That’s why i suggest you. Try it and see your self esteem result. I took it and here is my result. According to this result i should improve more myself:)

Results of your Self-Esteem Test

	Self-Esteem Index
Your score =63

My Self Esteem Details

According to this test, you have a reasonably high level of self-esteem. There is, however, still some room for improvement. You seem to experience some doubt about your own abilities, occasional feelings of inadequacy and possibly even question your own self-worth from time to time. Essentially, you sometimes get caught up in a vicious circle; if you believe that you cannot do something, your belief causes you to think and behave in a way that leads to your eventual failure. Although your self-esteem is generally healthy, and some insecurity is normal, it certainly can’t hurt to give your confidence a boost. There is a wide range of resources available out there on the subject, why not check them out? You’ll certainly see the long-term benefits – increased confidence, better relationships, less anxiety and an overall improved sense of well-being.

Finally,i will be happy if you share your results or leave a comment.

Trust yourself, there is no one can make your works better:)

It is a question many people could ask. More than 45 million Americans now belong to a health club,up from 23 million in 1993. In the US, some $19 billion a year is spent on gym memberships. Of course, some people join and never go. Still, as one mojor study-the Minnesota Heart Survey-found, more people at least say they exercise regularly. The survey ran from 1980, when only %47 of respondents said they engaged in regular exercise, to 2000, when the figure had grown to %57.

And yet obesity figured have risen dramatically in the same period: a third of Americans are obese, and another third count as overweight by the US goverment’s definition. Yes it is entirely possible that those who regularly go to the gym would weigh even more if they exercised less. But like many other people, I get hungry after i exercise, so i often eat more on the days i work out than on the days i do not. Could exercise actually be keeping me from loosing weight.

The conventional wisdom that exercise is essential for shedding weight is actually fourly new. As recently as the 1960s doctors routinely advised aganist rigorous exercise, particularly for older adults who could injure themselves. Today doctors encourage even their oldest patients to exercise, which is sound advice for many reasons: people who regularly exercise are at significantly lower risk of all manner of diseases – those of the heart in particular. They less often develop cancer, diabetes and many other illnesses. But the past few years of obesity research show that the role of exercise in weight loss has been widely overstated.

“In general for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless” says Eric Levussin, chair in diabetes and metabolism at Lousiana State University and a prominent exercise researcher. Many recent studies have found that exercise is not as important in helping people  lose weight as you hear so regularly in gym advertisements or on televisions. Read the rest of this entry…

Here is the 11 quotes about advice. I enjoyed them, also i hope you will like the list.

• I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. – Harry Truman
• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. – Erica Jang
• Old people like to give good advice as consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. – François de La Rochefoucauld
• Socrates was a Greek philosopher who went around giving people good advice. They poisoned him. – Anonymous
• Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. – Latin Maxim
• When your mother asks “Do you want a piece of advice?”  It is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You are going to get it anyway. –  Erma Bombeck
• Newer take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of troubles. – Sydney J. Harris
• When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. – Marquia de La Grange
• It is a little embrassing that, after 45 years of research and study, the best advice i can give you to people is to be a little kinder to each other. – Aldous Huxley
• When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. – Al Franken
• Friendship will not stand the strain of vey much good advice for very long. – Robert Lynd

If you have much more quotes about advice please do not be hasitated and leave a comment.

When we look at a certain object, a painting for instance – we will not be able to appreciate what’s in it, what is painted and what else goes with it if the painting is just an inch away from our face. However if we try to take it a little further, we’ll have a clearer vision of the entire art work.

We reach a point in our life when we’re ready for alter and a entire bunch of information that will help us unlock our personal development power. Until then, something can be staring us right under our nose however we do not see it. The only time we think of unlocking our self improvement power is when everything got worst. Take the frog principle for instance –

Try placing Frog A in a pot of boiling water. What happens? He twerps! He jumps off! Why? Yet he is not able to tolerate sudden alter in his environment – the water’s temperature. Then try Frog B: place him in a luke warm water, then turn the gas stove on. Wait til the water reaches a certain boiling point. Frog B then thinks “Ooh..it’s a little warm in here”.

Folks are like Frog B in general. Now, Anna thinks Carl hates her. Tomorrow, Patrick walks up to her and told her he hates her. Anna stays the same and does not mind her what her friends says. The next day, she learned that Kim and John also abhors her. Anna does not recognize at once the importance and the need for personal development until the entire community hates her.

We learn our lessons when we experience pain. We finally determine the warning signs and signals when things get rough and tough. When do we recognize that we need to alter diets? When none of our jeans and shirts would fit us. When do we stop eating candies and chocolates? When all of our teeth has fallen off. When do we recognize that we need to stop smoking? When our lungs have broken down. When do we pray and ask for help? When we recognize that we’re gonna die tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry…