I found your blog sometime in the last couple of months and got more and more excited as I followed along… I knew I wanted to buy the book but was broke, so I waited, and then I saw that you posted about a couple of contests to win copies so I entered both. A few days later – in the middle of serious self-questioning and transition – I decided that I had to have the book and ordered a copy from Amazon. The day it came I found out I won the Startup Princess contest! A couple days later I found out I’d also won Suzanne Marques’s contest…. I told Suzanne I’d already won a copy (so I have two now, the one I bought and the one I won, and I’m waiting for the perfect moment to give it to someone in my life, just when they need it). Talk about manifesting your desires. (Actually, something similar happened with something else I wanted badly but couldn’t afford – a Bamboletta waldorf-style doll for my daughter – I won two of them! So I have more faith in this “manifesting” thing than I used to.)
What does your Style Statement mean to you?
Knowing my Style Statement has really brought it all together for me. In my writing, it means letting my posts come from within rather than writing what I think others want to read or what is “popular.” Integrity really is icing on the cake. It balances out the sometimes wild flow of thought and structures it. It lets me be me. Without the integrity, I have the tendency to get caught up in what others say, do or think. With it, I am at ease with myself and the world. And of course it can go the other way too…without creativity, my life is dull and lifeless. I am a follower, not a leader. Integrity without Creativity is BORING.
My Style Statement is Creative Integrity.
Creative: Open, flowing, colorful, takes in everything, a sponge.
Integrity: Structured, In touch with deeper wisdom, Intuitive, Pays attention to gut feelings.
I just finished the book last night (I’ve been pegging away at it for a couple of weeks) and I am a dyed-in-the-wool “Sophisticated Nostalgic.” Everything about me, from the tailored vintage clothes (in which I present Silver Screen movies at a local historic cinema) to my “rapacious intellect” (statement of a former lover) screams this Style Statement.
Can you tell I’m tickled? I surely am!
When I got to that answer, my smile just beamed and I thought “Bingo!” Your insightful findings about Sophisticates (how curious and intricate and cosmopolitan and citified we are) hit the mark exactly.
