Men's Style Tip - How To Save Time By Quickly Browsing Men's Fashion Magazines For Clothing
Ideas
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I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style.
Today, I'm going to be teaching you how to properly browse through men's style magazines.
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Okay, this wasn’t a question that came in, but it was something I was thinking about
because I got a lot of magazines and I do that because they're really cheap and I find
that usually I can grab at least one idea from each magazine.
So to me, it makes a lot of sense.
I get each of these magazines for about a dollar, sometimes quite a bit less.
They come right to me and I can browse through them, and these are literally some of the
smartest guys when it comes to men's style who are curating all this content, presenting
it to me, and I have the ability just to go through it very quickly and grab some awesome
ideas, but I think most men don't do this.
I think most men just read through it, find a few things that they like, or they put it
on a shelf and they get this huge stack that builds up over the year and then they end
up canceling their subscription after a while because they realize, "Well, I've got 24 of
them sitting up on my desk or more than that, and I've never even read through them."
It's just too daunting.
It's just this big stack.
So I want to teach you what I do, and it's pretty simple, in order to get through these
things quickly and to make sure to grab the ideas, and that's the big thing because one
idea in one of these magazines, one picture, one illustration, one article can really affect
your style and I think it's worth you actually getting these and trying to incorporate that.
It's also a nice reminder every month getting these magazines and it reminds you not to
go out because some of them try to push you to go out and spend $5000 to $10,000 on a
single piece of clothing, but it gives you an idea of what's going on.
And again, the big thing is you've got these editors who are bringing all this content
to you and presenting it to you to look at.
So here's a copy of Esquire that's an older one, but you see Ryan Gosling on the front.
This is actually a very interesting cover.
So what I usually do is I'll take my iPhone.
I set a timer on it, around two minutes, and I have two minutes to go through this magazine
and find everything that I think is worth keeping and tear it out.
I'm not going to do this right in front of you because I just don't have a table to put
it on.
It's kind of a game.
I'm going to make it through this entire magazine in two minutes and tear out everything that
is of value.
So I will quickly zip through it.
I look at the commercials because I will occasionally see a picture of a guy that -- well, this
one, he's got a really nice jacket, so boom, I've torn it out and I am going to keep that
one.
Now, I would go through the entire magazine and do that very quickly.
Of course, you can cheat.
Two minutes works for me.
I find it actually as a bit challenging, but what it forces you to do is make a snap decision
of you looking at something and deciding, "Do I like it or do I not?" tear it out and
once you've got all of those -- and usually maybe 10 pages, maybe 15 pages I'll pull out
of a single magazine, sometimes articles I want to read, not too often articles I want
to read, but usually it's about something I see that's inspirational.
And then what I'll do is I then can take that and take action on it because so many times,
we get all these magazines and we never take action on anything that's presented to us,
so just ideas of what I do.
I'll sometimes see a manufacturer I've never heard of or some new up and coming person
or a great article, and then I'll go do research online.
I'll perhaps take the content into the bathroom and read it when I've got a little bit of
time there.
What else?
I've got a book that I'm putting together.
I'm not talking a book.
It's more of like just a folder where I throw in inspirational items.
I find since I'm only keeping 15 pages versus 100 pages, after a few months when I -- occasionally,
you've got those afternoons or you've got those evenings in which you're just looking
for something to do.
I can grab my inspiration book of all those things I've torn out and I can just go through
it and be inspired, and every page inspire me versus oftentimes only 10% of those magazines
really I'm drawn to.
That is my tip to you.
Hopefully you find it useful.
I think a lot of you guys, if you're like me, you probably have just huge stacks of
those magazines out there and you need to get rid of them, you need to clear out space.
I find this really helps me.
And again, the big point is if you can take one idea, that can be life-changing in terms
of your style and there are some other stuff out there.
I do this with other magazines.
It's not just men's style, so I get National Geographic Traveler, Fast Company.
I like those ones.
They've got some pretty cool stuff in there that appeals to me, but again, I like to just
go through it very quickly, see what inspires me, grab it, tear it out because rarely will
I ever pull one of these magazines off the shelf.
This has been Antonio Centeno with Real Men Real Style.
I hope you enjoyed the video and I will see you in the next one.
Bye-bye.