Dressing For Success: Did You Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions?

As we are moving past the New Year, many of us look back to where we have been, where we are now, and where we want to be in the future.

Actually, this is a good personal reflective practice for everyone. Many of us focus upon money, a relationship or job; but that is so limiting. What about reflecting upon your immediate friends and family, our home, our spending habits, what brings us joy, what do we want to change, what makes us happy, what is really important etc. Many of these things that I have mentioned are intangible but produce tangible results…..this is where true success lies.

We live in a product society, end results are what we see. When we think with such a blind focus were are limiting the value of living in the now and enjoying the process of becoming. Dressing for Success in not a final result, it is a constant reflection on what makes you you, and accepting the process of gaining the results; which by the way do change as we grow and change.

Properly framing your mind to accept what is and work to create what may be takes into consideration points from my previous blogs, such as: feeling comfortable in your own skin, have the right frame of mind, and loving yourself. All my blogs are under my name, so please feel free to retrieve them from the archives.

So now stop and think, when make New Years resolutions around the intangible goals that will lead you to success instead of only the final destination.

Read more posts by E.K. Prescott, Ph.D, educator and author of The Ivy League Chronicles.

E.K. Prescott, Ph.D.

E.K. Prescott, Ph.D., has been an educator for almost 30 years, and has taught at the college level for the past 15 years. She spent many years as a high school English teacher, middle school principal, and national educational consultant. Among her many accomplishments, she has been awarded research grants, named director of a research institute, and her work was published by the S-STEP group of the American Educators Research Association. She was also asked to present her research in London, England at a S-Step conference.

Prescott earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Missouri and her master’s degree at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, WI. She earned her doctorate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was awarded a three-year, full-time Fellowship.

She is currently an online Associate Faculty member, mentor and residency instructor for the University of Phoenix-School of Advanced Studies, as well as a part-time professor for other online doctoral programs.

Nine Squares: The Ivy League Chronicles won three awards in 2013: Honorary Mention for Historical Fiction, New York Book Festival, Hollywood Book Festival and Paris Book Festival.

Prescott lives in a log cabin nestled in the mountains of northern Arizona with her husband, four horses, and two black labs. Her son Doug serves as her business advisor and lives nearby with his wife, Sarah, and their young daughter, Audrey. Doug and Sarah will welcome a new addition to their family in January 2013. "Briggs" (short for Brigadoon) is a 19-year-old Arabian. Briggs is the comedian of the herd. In his heyday, he won many ribbons, but now he enjoys the quiet, high desert.