How to Love Your Reflection

Our Take on Fashion: The DivaStyle Coach takes on Glamour’s 5 Work Outfits in 60 Seconds

LTRAdmin — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:55:09 +0000

Glamour magazine is a great resource for fashion-conscious consumers - and their recent video entitled "What to Wear to Work: 5 Work Outfit Ideas in 60 Seconds" is an example of their fresh take on fashion for working women. I have my own perspective on work wear, and in this article I'm going to give you my evaluation of their choices and let you know whether the outfits they recommend would be work-appropriate for business.

Are Dress Codes in the Workplace Important?

LTRAdmin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:58:29 +0000

Are dress codes in the workplace still important? It’s a very interesting question in our current Internet-based business environment. When the ‘dot-com’ boom was in full force, it became a prized circumstance to be able to wear just about ANYTHING to work. Many dot-com companies had very relaxed dress codes and allowed employees to come [...]

What’s YOUR Fashion Personality?

LTRAdmin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:56:18 +0000

Being consistent with a style or mode of fashion is not necessarily a bad thing – consistency with your image can inspire trust and confidence in you and your abilities – but everyone could use a periodic style update to keep their look fresh and new. If it’s been a year or more since your [...]

Air Travel: Is The Clothing You Wear Important?

LTRAdmin — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:14:37 +0000

When it comes to air travel and clothing, we are all different. There are some travelers whose travel attire is a business suit – perhaps out of necessity, or because of the implied credibility a business suit can bring to the wearer. Others may wear traditional jeans – either because they classify jeans as comfortable [...]

Pulling Your Fashion Act Together

LTRAdmin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:40:49 +0000

Dear Reader, You’re an intelligent, funny woman with a fabulous personality – but… Does the ability to check out the newest fashion trends and adopt them into your own closet and style preferences seem beyond you? You CAN evaluate the latest trends and styles with a discerning eye and help you pull together just the [...]

Dealing with Disappointments – Bridging to Acceptance

LTRAdmin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:47:54 +0000

Disappointment can provide us with a bridge from expectation to acceptance of reality, increased wisdom, and the energy to begin again. Whenever we do something in life with an expectation of how we’d like it to turn out, whether that is a new exercise program or a revamped eating plan, we risk experiencing disappointment. When [...]

What Do We Communicate through Chronic Lateness

LTRAdmin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:23:04 +0000

06 – What Do We Communicate through Chronic Lateness Finding a clear and authentic way of addressing chronic lateness helps us to better honor both others and ourselves, while realizing what chronic lateness says about us. Being late for an appointment or a date can seem like a small thing that really doesn’t matter, but [...]

Create Your Masterpiece

LTRAdmin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:54:47 +0000

You are the author of your own life story, and you are free to create a masterpiece of your OWN design. We all have a life story – filled with relationships, events that help shape who we are, what we believe to be true, and what we want from the world around us. Depending on [...]

Taking a Fresh Look at Media

LTRAdmin — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:43:08 +0000

We must commit to seek out media (visual, audio) that empowers and informs us, supports our dreams and goals, and to say a firm “No” to media that drains energy and hope, damages our self-esteem, self-confidence and self-image. There is a lot of information available to us – more than ever before, and in many [...]

Bring Out Your Best

LTRAdmin — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:15:44 +0000

The traits – dare we say faults? strengths? – we notice in others, can be opportunities for us to understand ourselves more deeply and authentically. You’ve probably heard that universal saying that the people who irritate us the most are the ones who express qualities that we ourselves have (but may not want to admit [...]