With a worldwide recession, a fast changing world and an online cyberlife that sees your friends updating their status with all the wonderful things going on in their lives it is easy to see why insecurities and uncertainty rule our lives in a way they never seemed to in the simpler, pre-internet past.
Apparently by now most of us have forgotten about our new year resolutions and fallen off the diet wagon. However not all of us need to diet as such to lose those extra pounds we put on as we indulged in December.
Picture the scene: it’s Saturday afternoon and you’ve hit the local high street with your boyfriend in search of some new clothes. As you gaze at the shoes, scarves and other paraphernalia you notice a man walking past in a football shirt and instinctively shudder as the haze of man-made fibres catch the light and damned near blind you. Thankfully, it’s not your bloke. No. He’s far too sophisticated and man-about-town to ever don such garb. Phew!
At this time of the year we often take stock of what we have, and don’t have in our lives and what we would like to change. Most of us seek to be happy as the primary goal in life. Sometime we feel if we can get our ultimate job, meet the man of our dreams, have that longed for family or win the lottery, we will be happy. But happiness is not necessarily a natural state.
Christmas and New Year are a time for entertaining and mingling with a plethora of parties and dinners to go to and hold. In fact, for social butterfly Belles, throwing a fabulous dinner party in January is just the way to get through the cold, depressing month. But in a digital age that has sometimes forgotten good etiquette, what do we need to do to make sure our guests feel at ease, or indeed how do we respect our hosts if we are the guest?
It’s not just what you say; it’s how you say it. When body language speaks volumesWhen we start dating someone, other than having a wonderful time, our minds are continuously forming initial impressions, and interpreting words and signals while we get to know each other. The actual words we use together with how we say them, tone, volume etc., contribute up to just 45% of our message and the rest is conveyed through body language, such as posture, gestures and mannerisms. We naturally interpret body language to gauge what the person is really feeling inside – critical when we fancy someone!
Heating on. Heating off. Reaching for your winter coat one minute and digging out your summer frocks the next. Whilst it’s been great to enjoy some freakish October temperatures, unfortunately it seems such extreme conditions are the perfect breeding ground for the evil that is the COLD!
When Angela and Dave Dawes won £101 million on the EuroMillions lottery last weekend many of us dreamed of what we would do with that amount of cash. While we may think we would have no trouble finding things to spend that money on, who wants to waste time researching the top travel destinations and doing all the negotiations and organisation? Celebrities and multimillionaires know that it is important to have someone in their entourage who can make their every wish come true, no matter how large or small!
They say first impressions are the most important. That has never been truer, as new research from Experian CreditExpert – the UK’s most trusted credit monitoring service – reveals just how quickly we form opinions.
So the suitcase is back in the loft and the tan-prolonging aftersun you’ve been applying daily is down to its final squeeze. Brown crunchy things that look suspiciously like autumn leaves keep appearing in your garden and nights are drawing in. Friends and colleagues have now stopped telling you how ‘well’ you look. It’s all a bit grim.
Belle About Town is for the woman who is time deprived but style rich.
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