The first thing others see is YOU—not your resume, background, or credentials. A picture is truly worth a thousand words and how you dress is the “picture” you provide for all the world to see.

How can you showcase your unique expertise, valuable experience, and strong education without sounding egotistical?

A quality education prepares you to make a living, make better choices, and have more doors open as you build a solid life.

Take your place among experienced professionals by focusing on ways to learn, grow, and succeed.

By establishing a strategic online presence through your website, social media, keywords, meta tags, and Google AdWords, the world may discover your expertise and "beat a path to your door.

Put in the time. To position yourself as an expert, practice, apply, experiment, volunteer, and work within your area of knowledge to deepen your own understanding as you build real-life experience.

When you have paid the price, earned the right, and done the homework to be called an expert, people perceive you differently.

Your expertise can elevate your impressions to bring you to an entirely new realm.

Your body language continuously communicates for you, whether you are aware of it or not. Are your intended messages being well conveyed?

One of the most compelling things about you is the energy you put forth—whether it is positive, negative, or neutral. And that is only the beginning.

The way you walk, talk, stand, and carry yourself sends messages to others that can attract or repel, encourage or discourage, and impress or depress.

The soul fire determines the strength of the spirit.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler’s trophy wife.

Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

Real friendship is a slow grower.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!