You Glow Girl! Day 1: What Turns You On?

February 1st, 2012 by Ms. Ayo Fashola

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Happy February! ♥♥ Today begins the start of our You Glow! Girl Style Challenge® Begin your personal style journey by exploring your passions. What is it that turns you on? What get’s you excited? What motivates you to jump out of bed?

There are two ways to approach your journey into style. You can do so passionately or passively. You can act or react. You can go on a passionate pursuit or you can leave it to Beaver. The choice is yours. Let’s explore style. The dictionary describes style to mean:

Imagination and individuality expressed in one’s actions and tastes: She does things with style.

Style in Motion

Style is never passive. It is always in motion and its always expressing who and how you are at any given moment. As you move through your journey in life, your unique style, imagination and the characteristics that makeup your individuality are expressed daily in your actions, choices and tastes. Everyone has a personal style. If you are a feeling and thinking human being, you have a personal style. When you actively take control of how you choose to express yourself, you grow in confidence to try new and different things. You test out new ideas, keeping those that work for you and tossing the rest.

In order for style to feel truly personal, it’s got to feel supported by your passions. Your passions give you the zeal, zest, fire, and fervor to engage in an activity regularly. your passions are the bedrock. Let’s clarify what a passion is:

The dictionary describes passion and its synonyms fervor, fire, zeal, ardor as nouns that denote powerful, intense emotion. Passion is a deep, overwhelming emotion. The term may signify sexual desire or anger. Fervor is great warmth and intensity of feeling. Fire is burning passion. Zeal is strong, enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance. Ardor is fiery intensity of feeling.

Without passion, you have indifference, apathy, laziness, lethargy and confusion. Engage in activities you truly love. Choose a path you feel passionate about. Get clear on what your passions are. It’s the fuel that lights the fire to your journey, your path, your road that serves your personal style.

The great thing about pursuing your passions is that it causes you to radiate an attractive and magnetic persona. You will radiate because you are in tune with who you are and what you love and you are simply expressing it. When you become aware of what your likes and dislikes are, you learn to do more with less. Your passions become expressed, even in subtle ways, in your personal style. Use your turn-ons to know yourself, to stay passionate, excited, truly and vibrantly alive. Any love affair will do.