My Favorite Excuse For Not Dressing Sharp - Men's Style Advice - Male Fashion Tips
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I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style.
Today, I'm going to be talking about my favorite excuse of why men don't dress sharp.
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Okay, so what is my favorite excuse?
My favorite excuse is that whenever I start talking with a man about style -- and this
doesn’t usually happen through my website because most people who come to my website
are beyond this point, but I'll be at a conference or I'll be talking perhaps with somebody on
the phone and I'll hear this, "Well, it's just not me.
I'm not going to be myself if I start to dress sharp," so let's really look at that question
or that phrase.
You're not going to be yourself if you care about your appearance.
You're not going to be yourself if you take the time to put yourself together and put
your best foot forward.
So who are you really?
Have you ever thought about that?
Most of us haven't.
I have a degree in philosophy and I still haven't figured out truly who I am, but I
do know who I want to be.
I want to be a good person.
I want to be somebody that's respected.
I want to be a leader in my community.
I want to be a great father.
I want to be a great husband.
I want to be a successful business owner.
And any time I think about those people, a slob does not come to mind.
When I close my eyes and I try to envision who that person is, he's usually well dressed.
When I say well dressed, he's not wearing a suit necessarily, but he is well put together.
When I think of men throughout history who have changed the world -- and you could be
thinking Dale Carnegie.
You could be thinking Jesus.
You could be thinking Buddha.
You could be thinking, I don't know, one of the Roosevelts.
Any of these people, any of these guys, when they come to my mind, yes, they all wear different
clothing, different eras, but they were clean.
They were well-kept.
I guess when I close my eyes and I think of these people, a slob never comes to mind.
Someone who didn’t care about what other people thought about him doesn’t come to
mind.
Yes, to an extent, but these were men that were trying to influence others and it's not
all about you.
You've got to take a step back and you've got to think, "Okay, if I want people to follow
me, if I want people to trust me, if I want people to listen to me, then I've got to give
them a reason to believe in me."
People, especially if they don't know your history or they don't know that you've got
a great degree from a great school or that you've sold multimillion dollar packages,
but they don't know all this stuff, you've got to give them the visual, which is going
to give you those first few seconds in order to get your foot in there and really lay the
groundwork of the change that you want to put out there because when it comes down to
it, I think within almost all of us, we see a great person and we want the world to see
that great person as well.
If that's your excuse that you don't feel dressing sharp is going to be true to yourself,
I really ask you to kind of look at, well, who do you want to be and think about that
guy.
And if you want to be the best darn carpenter in Central Wisconsin, well, you know what?
I think the best carpenter in Central Wisconsin is going to dress appropriately, whatever
carpenters need to wear.
He's going to have the right tools.
He's going to be able to have the right kind of customer service.
He's going to deliver the right type of service and build, the right type of houses or decks
or whatever.
But in any case, there's a picture of this person that comes to mind.
I envision a guy with a uniform.
I envision someone maybe that has a fleet of trucks.
I envision a guy that is inspiring other carpenters to live up to his expectations, a guy that
doesn’t settle for anything less, whether it'd be the stool that he just built, the
kitchen he just remodeled, or the clothing that he puts on his back.
Okay.
So hopefully I've just killed that excuse.
Let me know what you think in the comments, guys.
I will see you in the next video.
Bye-bye.