Question Six

 

Lilly Daché’s Glamour Book

Glamour Test – Question Six
 

“Are you making an effort to correct the things that you know need improvement

 

 

In my Personal Report Card I had several areas that I felt needed improvement…my muscle tone, my posture, my animated facial expressions, which includes a lot of eye rolling, and my excessive use of curse words.(Those two actually go hand in hand, cause who doesn’t like to roll their eyes and swear at the same time???)

I really like cursing. I’ve even heard that people who swear are more trustworthy than people who don’t. That’s probably because we’re such great communicators! I work in a corporate environment now, which is new for me. I’ve always worked in creative jobs in small, mostly family owned companies, so I was used to saying whatever I wanted…as colorfully as I wanted. But since I’d like to be viewed as relatively professional and lady like, I’ve decided it’s time to tone it down. I thought it would be a good idea to keep a swear jar on my desk and I asked all of my work friends to hold me accountable. The thing is I run with the rowdy kids. They think the whole thing is hilarious. They all swear so much themselves that they don’t even notice it if I do. I had one friend who couldn’t grasp the concept. “What do you mean? I have to give you a quarter every time you swear?” Then he muttered something like “F*%k that s#@t!” and walked away.

That left me to hold myself accountable. I’ve been doing it for a couple of days now. I have $5.25 in my jar so far. That’s 21 curse words, in case you were wondering. But $2.25 of that came from Happy Hour. What can I say? I have cocktails and I feel things deeply.

 So that leaves the muscle tone and posture thing. I think I can knock out both of those issues with yoga. Also maybe it will make me calm, and maybe if I’m calm I won’t feel like rolling my eyes and dropping the F Bomb all the time. Win!  

Two points.