CAREER CHIC

Whether you’re a hard boiled career chick on the fast track or just trying to make a living, you and your fellow working girls have plenty in common- from dealing with work-related stress finding the energy to make the most of everyday. Now I will offer tips, techniques, and suggestions to help you of professional productivity, personal fulfillment ---and fun!

• 1.   Remember when your mother used to tell you that breakfast was the most important meal of the day? With the exception of power lunches that help you move up the chain of command, she was right.  
• 2.   Get lathered and get going. You can shave shower time down to two minutes flat. Benefits of two minute shower besides abbreviating primp time? Better skin! Beauty experts swear that slathering on to cure to dry skin is only half equation: shorter cooler shower that helps your skin to retain more moisture in the first place.

• 3.      Master sixty second make-up. Keep essential in small zippered pouch. It’ll not only help you find everything in a pinch, but it’s easier to throw into your bag for touch up-s later. Basic make up: powder, blush-on and lipstick.

• 4.      Start your engines; maintain a vehicle you can count on to. The number one rule in car ownership is similar to body ownership: get your checkups. Every three thousand mile you should plan to take your car for an oil change, warm up your vehicle and make sure not to overheat it.

• 5.      Organize your Day-timer to save time, money and your career. Make a daily to do list, cross off items as you accomplish them. At the end of the day move the unaccomplished goals to the next page.

• 6.      Make your desk clean and avoid being a “piler”. Try holding file technique and label them

                           “Important Act Now!” “Review by Friday” and “Low Priority”.

• 7.      Learn how to say” I love my job”.

• 8.      Flash your sweetest smile as you bid goodbye to your office mates and boss.

• 9.      Go out if you still have leisure time. Meet your girlfriends and shop with them, visit your guy friends and talk about NBA, eat out with your family, download new songs to your iPod or hit the gym. Unwind somewhere or do the things you loved to; you deserve it girl.

• 10.  Moisturize, get a good sleep and don’t forget to thank God for a beautiful day.