Style Statement -- Live by your own design

HAPPY is a feature documentary that takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Calcutta in a search of what makes people happy. Combining interviews with the leading scientists in happiness research and real life stories of ordinary and extraordinary people around the world, HAPPY uncovers the secrets behind [...]

Read my interview on the A Beautiful Ripple Effect blog, (find out five lessons I’ve learned in my life.) Check out Carolyn’s site, it’s full of deep, rich wisdom and beauty, loved connecting with her!
Carolyn’s giving away a signed copy of Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design to one lucky winner. To enter to [...]

This is simple, beautiful and powerful, love it!

Credit: SWISS MISS
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Today we’re giving away Carolyn Rubenstein’s book Perseverance. Twenty unique and fascinating stories, with one common theme: perseverance. The stories of these heroes demonstrate how anyone can learn to live with energy and passion, regardless of the obstacles to be faced, and will remind us all that now is everything.
For a chance to win, please [...]

This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine.
~ Traditional song
One of the questions I ask my Style Statement clients is, “What do you want more of in your life?” It’s a simple yet profound question. One client’s reply was especially luminous: “I feel deep joy within me, but I want to [...]

Last spring Bill Murray gave a poetry reading to construction workers building the new home for Poets House in New York. Watch how he weaves poetry and humor to embrace the craft of the hand and the heart.
My favorite is “I Dwell” by Emily Dickonson.

Leah Dieterich’s mother always told her to write thank you notes. So she does. To everything. thxthxthx is her daily exercise in gratitude. What or who would you thank today? I would write,
Dear Discouragement,
Thank you for showing me when I need courage, I persisted and received a glorious result.
with love,
C

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
~ Jacques Maritain
Who doesn’t want acknowledgment for a job well done, fabulous hair, good intentions, or great style? Yet we often unconsciously deflect the praise that could nourish our deepest cravings.
If and when you are complimented, receive it. Stand in the place where you are seen. Let it [...]

I have a love hate relationship with fashion, love that it can be a vehicle for self expression, hate it’s often a vehicle for consumerism. The standard seasonal fashion question, “What’s hot?” I find boring and stale. So it was a lovely surprise to to read a thoughtful answer by Marie-Louise Von Haselberg, Editor-in- chief [...]

Talking on the phone while getting to work, getting dressed, applying mascara, eating lunch, shopping, folding laundry, in line at the drive-thru, cooking dinner, wrangling your kids (the cat, the dog, the mail), tidying up, and…checking your email.
Mobility and wireless technology make for endless multitasking possibilities.
Here’s a radical concept: mono-task. Do…one…thing…at…a…time. This is the same [...]