Image from the Inside Out
June, 2002 - By: Sharon Danley

Confidence is the most desired state. It is nothing more than the daily practice of well designed rituals that improve one's life on any front. Practice turns into skill, and skill turns into confidence. And confidence projects a compelling image - on all fronts.

The cornerstones of a powerful image are about how you think, look, speak and act in any situation.

People can always spot incongruencies or double messages, but don't necessarily identify them - e.g., thinking one way and dressing, acting or speaking another.

	Image has more to do with how clothes, makeup and hairstyles enhance your eyes or main focal point, which are the outward extensions of your inner thoughts or states of mind.
	A seasoned artist can help transform a person's visual presentation through enhancing or camouflaging proportion, weight, balance, line and colour, which are expressed through makeup, hair and clothing.
	First-rate voice coaches can help develop your "auditory image" or "vocal calling card". With improved projection, pitch, placement, enunciation and tempo a voice can have a compelling component that's hard to deny.
	How you act can be simply stated as nothing more than showing respect to everyone and everything around you and that always starts with self-respect. Poise is a good old fashioned word that sums it up beautifully.