The Only Person You Need to Impress is You

I think most of us spend a lot of time at one time or another trying to impress other people. We do it in all sorts of ways - with our clothes or our belongings or by the way we behave or the things we say or do.

It works, of course, sometimes - but only with people who are impressed by externals - the young, the naïve and (let's face it) those very shallow people who judge others not by whom or what they are, but by their belongings, and the the labels in their clothes.

Obviously, getting a job (or even keeping one!) is about impressing people, and very good clothes and very nice accessories can be great props to ones confidence in those circumstances, but the fact is that nine times out of ten an interviewer or an employer (whilst perhaps noticing the neatness of your appearance) wouldn't know the difference between Cerruti and Marks and Sparks and couldn't care less one way or the other.

Being impressive to other people - real people who really matter - never depends on what you wear or what you own. It depends on you - the real you - the person you really are, and what you think of and believe about yourself and your skills, and your abilities, and what you have to offer to an employer, to society and the world.

That's why the only person you really need to impress is yourself. If you don't believe in the real you - the you without what Geoffrey's late mother would have called 'the schmutter' - who else is going to?

Emily - http://www.therapypartnership.com