Ask Dallas, Make Your Best Impression Blog · January 2, 2012
Look around your house and imagine you have thirty minutes to evacuate, and the only things you can take with you are what you can fit in the back of your car. What would you take? If you had to start all over again, how would you do it differently? We don’t have to wait [...]
Ask Dallas, Make Your Best Impression Blog · December 30, 2011
No one ever has to see the list of things you’re afraid of, but in fact, sharing your list with others can be tremendously liberating. Once you let light come in to those once dark places, you will begin to see the darkness fade. I encourage you to get out your list of fears and [...]
Ask Dallas, Make Your Best Impression Blog · December 28, 2011
One of the great inhibitors of our lives is fear. If you suspect that fear has been holding you back from the things you want to do, there is something you can do about it. Set aside a couple of hours in the next few days, or take some time right now, to make a [...]
Ask Dallas, Make Your Best Impression Blog · December 24, 2011
When you find yourself in situations where your blood is boiling or your stomach is churning, try to get into the habit of stepping outside yourself and becoming the observer. This is easier to do in the heat of the moment if you’ve practiced it before the battle gets started. Whenever you find yourself going [...]
Make Your Best Impression Blog · December 22, 2011
We’ve made incredible progress in the fields of psychology and psychotherapy in the last twenty-five years. We’ve acquired new and valuable insights about the roles our addictions, our families, and our childhood histories have played in our lives and in our ultimate success and happiness. In addition to competent therapists, there are recovery and twelve-step [...]
Ask Dallas, Make Your Best Impression Blog · December 20, 2011
It’s fortunate in many ways that we’re living in the age of the dysfunctional family. Even as recently as a few years ago, you were considered an anomaly if you sought professional counseling. Now, if you haven’t been in therapy, people assume you’re in denial. Take advantage of the times. If you have a problem [...]
Ask Dallas, Make Your Best Impression Blog · December 18, 2011
While you’re rethinking the beliefs of your childhood, don’t forget to examine your current beliefs, the ones you may have acquired after you let go of the beliefs of your childhood, the ones you moved into at the time of your midlife crisis, or even the ones you settled into last year, or possibly last [...]
Ask Dallas, Make Your Best Impression Blog · December 15, 2011
The number of people who have abandoned the religion of their childhood is legion. Many people are able to leave and never look back. Others leave, but are often consumed with guilt for doing so. Some people spend years feeling angry and bitter about the restrictive, small-minded thinking they’ve spent their lives overcoming. And many [...]
Ask Dallas, Make Your Best Impression Blog · December 11, 2011
When I decided to simplify my life, one of the first things I did was to cancel most of my magazine and newspaper subscriptions. I also eliminated TV news. My purpose at that time was twofold: I wanted to create more time for the type of reading and thinking I really liked to do, and [...]
Ask Dallas, Make Your Best Impression Blog · December 8, 2011
SMILE A LOT If you have started to slow down and simplify your life, if you’re spending time in nature and have surrounded yourself with beauty, if you’ve latched on to synchronicity and tuned into your creativity, and if you’ve learned to enjoy each moment, you’re probably already smiling a lot. In fact, you may [...]
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In Professionally Polished, Teague-Snider steps outside the bounds of boring etiquette books and uses real-life blunders, both humorous and horrifying, to illustrate common mistakes and lessons-learned. Some will make you laugh out loud, others will make you cringe, but all will entertain you as you learn what you need to know to recession-proof your career and get the professional edge that will make you an indispensable asset to your organization.
Dallas on the cover of Personal Excellence Magazine! The founder of Make Your Best Impression and author of Professionally Polished, Dallas Teague Snider appears on the cover of the March 2009 edition of Personal Excellence magazine.