In order to command, expand and accomplish at higher levels of excellence we must move with charisma and professional presence.

Hello there!

Do you know what it means to be able to walk into a room filled with important individuals from all walks of life and have the ability to command the room? That’s having charisma, or professional presence.

Professional Presence is more than looking good or wearing expensive clothing.  Some of us have spent thousands of dollars carefully and meticulously constructing what we believed would be the perfect wardrobe for ourselves only to throw it out like yesterday’s newspaper and start all over again.

It was not authentic!

Perfecting Your Authentic Image and the Professional Presence Series has helped individuals and team members to create unstoppable success by thinking, feeling, speaking, looking, acting, and being the part. Professional Presence is an essential asset for advancement in most professional arenas today. This is why we are hosting The Professional Presence Series.

Our first symposium is FREE for a small and select group and we want to launch this series at the highest level.

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Enjoy a light lunch and fashion presentation. There is no cost to attend but you must RSVP HERE... Space is Very Limited. We look forward to connecting with you then.

Sincerely,

Chloé Taylor Brown

The Most Transformational Radio Show & Master Class In The World Launching February 20th, 2012

Chloé Taylor Brown, Lifestyle enhancement coach, transformational trainer, author, symposium leader, advocate for women and girls, founder of the Global Girls Initiative and President of Total Image Enhancement will Host and Lead the Transformation Each Week with Special Guest and Participants.

Get Your PEP On! This Radio Show Is “The” Master Class of all time. It’s about getting you out of your head and into your life within record speed and by quantum leaps. It’s about developing and elevating personal excellence in individuals, families, and organizations for unshakable sustainability. It’s about setting the world on fire by being more authentic and “You” and accomplishing what you intend to accomplish in life.

~Chloé Taylor Brown

We’re Looking for 50 Individuals to Participate in our 13 Week Pilot Program and Master Class, GET YOUR PEP ON!

Your interaction with Chloé Taylor Brown and her PEP team will be real-time, dynamic, personal, and transformational. You will not be able to thank us enough… and best of all… there is NO Monetary Cost to You. That’s right! This 3 Month Series is Valued at Over $6,000. All that is required of each participant selected is 115% commitment of your time, effort and participation in at least 10 of the 13 session of the Master Course and the weekly Radio Show, Get Your PEP On, on Monday’s from 10 to 11am Eastern Time From February 20 through May 14, 2012.

Your Acceptance Into the Master Class Includes:

1. Your Personal PEP Profile
   
2. A 30 minute live debrief with a Certified PEP Coach Practitioner prior to the start of the show on February 20, 2012
3. 2 interactive web lessons-30 minute each during the 13 week course
4. A written document explaining the 12 vital abilities of the Personal Excellence Profile—The PEP!
5. A 30 minute follow-up power coaching session with a PEP Coach Practitioner following the 13 week course, May 14, 2012
6.  A PEP audio conversation with Chloé Taylor Brown and Eric Wolery sharing significant information and knowledge about “you” and the vital significance of the PEP and elevating your personal excellence
7. Discounts on all future courses, coaching, training and products

To be considered and selected as a participant in the 2012 “Get Your PEP On” Master Class please upload and submit a 60 second video of “YOU” telling us why you’re ready to “GET YOUR PEP ON” in 2012. Click Here To Upload Your 60 Second Video or to Connect with us Today.

Life flows from the inside out. It’s time for inner work. The workings of a woman’s body, mind, and soul are like the workings of the universe.

~Chloé Taylor Brown

If you’re a woman between the ages of 40 to 59 I encourage you to take the first bite of chocolate yourself …and put your own oxygen mask on first. Then you’ll be ready to take on the world; perhaps for the second or third time. Go within, and ask your self these important questions and answer each of them truthfully and honestly for self expansion.

1. Do I have a high ability to value myself?
2. Do I perceive accurately and efficiently?
3. Are my decisions in alignment with who I am and what I want to accomplish?
4. Am I a dynamic communicator?
5. Do I build rapport with others easily?
6. How well do I interact with others to get their support on my decisions?
7. Am I taking the correct actions to get me to my heart’s desires and objectives?
8. At what level am I producing what I say I really want to produce in life?
9. How certain am I about who I say I am and about who I say I’m working on becoming and what I want to accomplish in life?
10. Do I have the ability to command at a high level because of my ability to act, produce and have certainty?
11. Am I expanding based on who I believe I am and my dream for my life now?
12. Do I have the ability to accomplish what I want, deserve and envision for my life?
13. Am I true to my highest and ideal self?”

How do your answers resonate with you and make you feel? Your personal excellence is your energy and your power within; unleashed, it will supply all of your needs. If you would like to evaluate, measure and get a profile of your personal energy and excellence please click this link to take The Personal Excellence Profile–the PEP!

I’m sending you love today and always.

Chloé Taylor Brown

What is a Modern Lady?

Today’s “Modern Lady” is elegant and classy. She knows how to mix and leverage her authentic life-flow to reach her desired goals. The “Modern Lady” combines her personality with feminine ideals, modern reality, polite behavior, refinement, knowledge in many areas, and an overall standard and vision of excellence that creates a strong personal feminine power. She is very confident, positive, and alluring.

Today’s “Modern Lady” is the counterpart of a true Gentleman with Authentic Swagger. She knows how to behave, speak, and hold a position at all times because she leads with Authenticity.

Re-fine-ment means to improve, enhance, polish…to free or become free of what is course or uncouth… to make improvements by making subtle changes. Refinement is attained through applied knowledge and good manners. Manners include etiquette and form; rules that set a standard for human behavior and an established manner of doing or saying something (can you imagine if we did not have rules and established ways of doing certain things in society). Every woman or girl, regardless of her profession, chosen life direction or calling could greatly benefit from being educated and taught the importance of good manners and proper etiquette, which go hand in hand.

Etiquette is about using your manners (behaviors) so you are comfortable with yourself and have the ability to make those around you feel comfortable as well. It’s about knowing the rules and knowing when it’s okay to break them so you don’t humiliate yourself or others. When you are authentic, knowledgeable, gracious, thoughtful, and kind other people are attracted to you.

Have you ever seen a woman whose appearance was extremely pleasing to behold? She  may  have been fabulously dressed and very beautiful. That is, until she opened her mouth to speak, at which time you discovered her words were out of sync and incongruent with her visual appearance, and her manners were even worse.

The “Modern Lady’s” manners always match the way she is dressed and the way she wants others to know her… It’s her brand.

I can’t count the times I’ve witnessed beautiful women of all ages who’ve lost their manners (in personal and professional situations), or perhaps they never acquired them in the first place. What about a beautifully dressed woman in feminine attire who walks, sits and speaks like an unrefined man? In almost all instances this can be redirected through refinement. Many just don’t know they are behaving inappropriately or projecting a “split image.” They must be taken aside in a gentle, loving and motherly way and educated—femininely and authentically. We must pass it on.

We are a society who has forgotten that young girls must be trained in regard to the finer points of life and how to be a modern lady. It is not only the responsibility of the mother to teach little girls how to become modern ladies… it is the responsibility of every woman who calls herself a modern lady. If it is not being demonstrated at home, or for whatever reasons many girls aren’t getting proper training, then we must provide the proper training and resources to form young women and girls into modern ladies and women who can hold a position powerfully. Oh, my… who and where in the world would I be if Aunt Anita had not chosen to participate in my formation of becoming a modern lady?

Sincerely,

Chloé Taylor Brown

Listen! Can You Pay Attention?

There is a beautiful, so incredibly simple and assessable process that I want to share with you. This process benefits men, women and children. It offers enormous payback to organizations and individuals alike, with results that are measurable and sustainable for corporations, families, and for “you”. If implemented and utilized consistently, this process will assist “you” in taking your life, your life-situations and your lifestyle far beyond the next level of living. It will assist you in increasing your health, happiness, confidence, wealth, peace, and your overall appearance. It is the magical process of being attentive.

The root word for ATTEND is Latin and it means (to + tendeŕe), which means “to stretch”  “to pay attention.” ATTENTION is Mental concentration or readiness: Synonyms for ATTENTION are: Observation, observance, regard, vigilance, mindfulness, inspection, heed, heedfulness, watching, listening, consideration, intentness, study, alertness, thought, application, diligence, caution, preoccupation, thoroughness, recognition, concentration, and finally, care.

How often are you ATTENTIVE … on purpose and intentionally? What can “Being” focused and attentive do for you?

Several years ago I made a tremendous discovery while teaching my seven year-old second grade son how to win friends and “be popular” as he called it.  At the time, my youngest child complained for weeks of a situation he perceived himself to be in at his school—he said he had no friends and no one wanted to play with him on the play ground. It broke my heart because I had already tried all of the confidence building strategies I used with my older children; but, they just weren’t working with Joshua. My heart ached for him as he told me about another incident while driving home from school on this particular Wednesday. I honestly did not know what to do for my son at that moment… but, as I began to focus and be attentive, in that moment, it came to me as I heard. Teach Joshua how to be attentive.

I had never thought of it before. “Joshua, I want to teach you something that’s going to help you to feel better and you’re going to get lots of friends,” I told him.  I guess he figured he had nothing to lose so he sluggishly said, “alright, OK, mommy”.

We walked into the house, got settled and jumped right into the process of “being attentive.” I got Joshua to sit with me, with our knees facing each other as though we were about to have a long conversation. I told him, “Joshua, we’re going to look into each other’s eyes and just “Be” together.” I told him that we were not going to focus on hair, nose, or anything on our faces except our eyes. I also told him that by “paying attention” to what we’re feeling on the inside is going to help us to feel better on the outside. I also asked him to pay attention to what he feels I might be feeling as he is being attentive to me by looking into my eyes.

After being Attentive with Joshua for about thirty seconds I perceived and felt tension leave his little body as he began to smile. That was it. It took less than five minutes. The rewards that first day were subtle but very comforting to both of us. The next day we experienced the same comforting feelings of being at peace, and, we experienced pretty much the same following our third afternoon of sitting together and “being attentive” with one another. The forth day was Saturday… early that morning, before I even had an opportunity to think of Joshua’s situation and the exercise I was sharing with him, my son ran into the house after being outside playing with his arm stretched out as he handed me a smelly, dirty, shredded baby blanket that was unrecognizable.

“Mommy!” he called. “Here!” He handed me the blanket. “What do you want me to do with this?” I asked as I held the blanket with two fingers in the air. “I don’t need it anymore, Mommy. I know who I am!” He didn’t give it anymore thought as he ran back outside to play. Not only did Joshua start to realize “who” he is… he was also able to hold his position in who he knew himself to be, and yes, Joshua did start to become a popular second grader who attracted lots of girls and boys as his new friends.

Being Attentive is a significant spiritual gift and ability that anyone can learn and implement through practice. Being Attentive works for all of us; from high-level business deals, military leaders, federal judges, CEO’s of large corporations, teachers, doctors, and leaders of all levels, as well as for athletes, mothers, students, and even small children.

When you are “being attentive” you are being yourself—the real you—the spiritual you, because you are being right here, right now in presence-time, experiencing the power of now, as Eckhart Tolle, speaks of in his best-selling book, “The Power of Now.”

When you are being powerfully attentive you experience a higher level of awareness and present yourself as “more excellent” and real. When this awareness is combined with your holographic vision, clear intentions, your applied intelligence, and purposeful action based on the vision… the results of your life situations will align, shift, and change dramatically, in a most favorable way that appears magical, or “beyond miraculous” as I’ve been told by leaders at The Home Depot.

What’s so amazing to me is that so many of us spend so much time and energy trying so hard to “not” be our real, authentic, bona fide, genuine, fabulous selves. It’s as though we’re doing all we can to not allow others to see and know our real selves.

PAST – PRESENT – FUTURE 

There are 3 states that we can exist in (if you find more please let me know), the past, present, and the future. The key is to try to spend more of our time in the “Present.” When you’re living in presence-time you’re in a “stretched out” state of you being more aware and knowingly spanning a portion of the past, the present, and a clear picture of your future… of what you really desire in life.

REMEMBER THIS: The root meaning of ATTEND—means (tendeŕe “to stretch” “to pay attention”). High-level athletes talk about this all the time… they say when they’re doing what they do that makes them great– in that moment they’re “stretching” time. According to Michael Jordan in those moments it was just him, his vision, and the ball.

Your goals are:

• To become aware of your thoughts and feelings.
• To become aware of where your attention is (what are you focusing on) and the content of those thoughts.
• To notice your level of excellence, state, and mood at any given time.
• To focus your attention on your heart’s desires, your holographic vision, your ideal life as though it already “is” that.
• Pay attention to the “feelings” this level of excellence brings.
• Know that when you are “feeling” bad or not so good you are being attentive to negativity; in other words, know that you are “thinking” negativity… refocus and place your attention back on your “big picture” and your holographic vision. Make sure to right your vision down. Make it very detailed by using all senses in describing your perfect day in your ideal life.
• Be it! Do it! Experience it! Hold your position in it!

You will begin to also notice how often you are in the past, present or future.  Most people spend very little of their spiritual time in the present.

Being Attentive is an experience where you feel bigger and more powerful while being at peace with who you are, what you want and how you can do it, regardless of what other people are doing or what situation you are facing. When you’re being ATTENTIVE you don’t feel introspected or self-conscious.

You feel relaxed and at ease, even when unpleasant surprises come at you.  You are connected to who you are with your visions, plans and what you are doing, without second-guessing yourself or others.

Why does Being ATTENTIVE matter? Because you perform better and feel good while you’re doing it. 

1. Do you perform at your highest level when you feel nervous and anxious?
2. How sagacious and compassionate are you when you feel irritated?
3. How influential and creative are you when you feel stressed out?
4. How beautiful or handsome do you feel when you are uncertain of yourself?

Feelings of nervousness, irritation and stressed-out are caused by thoughts about the past or the future – of what might happen, of how someone is not doing what they should be doing, or what someone did to you five years ago … and so on.

Initially, Being Attentive in our every day lives can be challenging because we’ve got to learn how to recognize what is actually happening while it’s happening.  Most of us want to take control of what’s happening (this has been a big lesson for me). That’s right, and when we feel like we’re failing to control a certain situation it makes us tense and stressed – we are miserable and fighting with the events of the present moment–with what is imagined or actually happening now.

To Be Powerfully Attentive, we’ve got to learn how to control the things that are actually in our control: Listen, you can control you, your thoughts, your visions, your plans and your actions!  You cannot control rush hour traffic, how long the line is at the post office, the weather, what your boss thinks of you, who your children want to be when they grow up, the client saying yes to your project, the car starting – none of these are completely under your control.

Likewise, when you are attentive you KNOW… and you can take responsibility for the distinctions between what you can control and what you cannot control.  Then you will have the capacity to take wise, decisive actions without letting what might happen next twist and fragment you into feeling bad or unhappy about who you are, who you’re being now and what you want to contribute to the world.

Know that your ability to “Be ATTENTIVE” is based on any given Situation

This means that in any given moment, or any given situation you can move from being fully attentive to feeling overwhelmed with thoughts and emotions based on the past and future.  It can happen in an instant.  This will last as long as your thoughts continue to focus on a past or future event, even if that event is only a few seconds away. So, the key is to get back into the PRESENT time. To focus on NOW; to “Be Attentive” on what’s happening now.

TRY THIS EXERCISE TO BE MORE ATTENTIVE & PRESENT: Sit comfortably with a partner the way I did with Joshua. If you don’t have a partner sit in front of a mirror. Look into your partners eyes, or your eyes if you’re alone… not at your facial feature or your hair, but directly into your eyes, as they are the windows to the soul. Do this for 2 minutes then relax. Be attentive again for 5 minutes… relax. Repeat this process until you can “Be Attentive” up to 20 minutes (you don’t have to do 20 minutes initially, however, this is the goal). You are going to be amazed and astonished at your level of perception and your breakthroughs. If you have a timer that would be fantastic but it is not necessary. This may feel a little awkward at first but please continue. You will not be able to thank me enough once you experience the spiritual connection to yourself and your power.

Let’s go deeper. Self-observation (paying attention to what you’re doing when you’re doing it), permeation (really seeing and getting into it), and precise replication (copying and reproducing) of the now are the keys to getting you unstuck and unlocking and eliminating worrisome past and future-based thoughts.  When we can commit to our own correct choices (based on our knowledge of who we are and where we’re going), our own decisions, plus continuous observation, permeation and precise replication of our habits and shortcomings in a given situation then we can be fully present in that moment.

We must learn to value ourselves and have certainty that we are in fact, good enough, even if the book is not a best seller, even if the husband or wife gets upset, even if you are not selected as parent of the year, and even if you fail to close the biggest deal of your life. Then these outside events will no longer define your feelings or your self-worth, and you will feel centered and grounded because you are being present and paying attention..

I want you to start paying close attention to spot when you are trying to alter the present moment, by either fighting it; this will show up as anger, frustration, bullying. Or you may try to escape the present moment by, avoiding conflict, over-analyzing, over-pleasing by denying its existence, or by masking what is really there.

The “Attentive” or “Presence” exercise that I did with Joshua to help him to “be popular” at school works for all who are ready to receive it. It’s an exercise to reconnect with yourself – your thoughts and your feelings – so you can be clear-minded about what’s really important for you to be saying and doing in the present moment.

Being more Attentive and Present is exciting, adventurous and tremendously rewarding.  Noticing your thoughts and the resulting habits that come from them is the first and biggest key to learning to be more attentive.  You’ll enjoy the pay-off when you really need to be at your best – for professional athletes, entertainers, surgeons, judges, in key social situations, in business deals, and in love and life situations.  You will discover that taking charge of your own presence and thus taking charge of your own being is far more rewarding than a promotion, a pay raise, or even a new lover.  You are taking care of yourself – the greatest gift you can give to yourself is the ability to Be Attentive and Present.

ATTENTION is mental concentration or readiness. When you operate with a high-level of readiness your performance expands in the areas that are important to you:

1. You experience better concentration and focus.
2. You experience better execution and attention to details that matter, especially under pressure.
3. Your listening and memory skills will improve greatly.
4. You will have the capacity to distinguish what is important and what is not.
5. You will have the ability to work much smarter.
6. You will have better conflict resolution skills.
7. You will become more persistent and you have an increased effective ability to learn and implement your new knowledge.
8. You will demonstrate wiser, clearer decision making abilities, especially in the moment.

These abilities are sharpened and intensified because all your mind and heart are focused on what’s happening NOW, uncluttered by nervous, anxious thoughts and fears about what you or others should be saying or doing.

There are also 8 relationship benefits of Being more Attentive and more Present:

1. You will be more consistent, correct, effective, and in alignments within your relationships, which leads to much greater harmony.
2. You will experience improved physical health and energy.
3. You will experience more laughter and a playful outlook.
4. You will partake in more honest and open communication at home, at work, and socially.
5. You will increase your confidence and conviction in leading others.
6. You will experience and enjoy a greater capacity for genuine emotional connections with others.
7. You will experience life and relationships with people becoming easier and more fun.
8. You will be able to consistently operate in life at a higher level of Excellence!

These happen because you feel and have more self efficacy, self-control, more certainty, and feel more secure and better about you.

You stop feeling drained of energy and power by the burdens of the past and imagined worrisome, not happened yet futures.  Instead, you focus on doing what’s ideal and optimally correct for you today. You will start to build a track record of positive feelings, certainties, and patterns of improving your successful actions that help you consistently reach the level of successes you are aspiring for.

The end result of Being more Attentive is that you are much more capable of giving your valued relationships and missions in life a far higher quality of what they need from you, because you are powerfully here – now, attentive and feeling very worthy and good about yourself, while simultaneously, effortlessly and naturally emanating continuous positive, high mood levels! Now tell me, who would be attractive to you as you’re showing up in life more authentically you?

When you are Being Fully Attentive, you magically raise your own awareness, cleverness, skills, abilities, intelligence and overall excellence, while at the same time you’re helping to raise the same qualities in ALL the other people you come in contact with, align with, and truly connect with. This is a free gift that is available to all of us… all we do is show up, be attentive and utilize the gift.

As always, I’m thinking big with you and sending you love today.

Chloé Taylor Brown