8/6/2019 Chapter 1 - Your Image and Its Impact

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Your Image and Its Impact

Personal Packaging- sends out messages to others- camouflages the real you- a true picture of your inner beauty combined with outer beauty- includes: the way you move - your visual poise, the manner in which you behave

and speak - your social grace, the eclectic knowledge you possess - youraesthetic awareness

To get beyond the first impressions made on others, you must package yourselfattractively but never forget that there must be something of value inside that image.

Image-a reproduction or a mental picture of you as seen by others

FACTORS THAT MADE YOU WHAT YOU ARE

1. Past experiences2. The way you learned to respond to members of your family as you were growing

up3. Roles that you played4. Names you have been given

MAKING YOUR IMAGE FIT YOUR ASPIRATIONS

1. Body language (Your body language is important.)2. Image change (When you change your image, you have to be prepared for new

responses from other people - some positive, some negative.)3. Be consistent with the image you want to project.4. The components of your image must be in harmony with each other.5. Your image must be in harmony with your environment.