Dress Like Today Is Important
To d a y i s i m p o r t a n t. I t i s t h e o n l y d a y y o u ’ v e g o t t h a t h a s s o m e
reality to it. Why shouldn’t you treat it as important? It is. So
dress like it matters. And no, I don’t mean in the way my
mother always used to tell me, “Make sure you’ve got clean
underwear on; you never know when you’ll get run over by a
bus.” I loved this as a kid. I couldn’t see how important clean
underwear would really be if I were lying there in the road.
And I used to imagine how, if my parents got me to the hospi-
tal in time and the doctor stripped away my torn and
blood-soaked trousers, he’d look down and gasp in horror,
“Don’t look! This kid has got yesterday’s pants on—get him
out of here!”
Look, a lot of these Rules are about conscious choice, con-
scious decisions, conscious awareness. Those I have observed
who seem to have a handle on this thing called life are con-
scious people. They are awake and aware. They know what
they are doing and where they are going. If you, too, want
your life to be more than a set of random events that happen
to you and instead make it a series of stimulating challenges
and rewarding and enriching experiences, then you, too, have
to be conscious.
And you do this by greeting each day as if it is important. You
get up and shower/wash/shave/put on make-up/comb
hair/brush teeth, etc. to make you look good, feel good, smell
good. And then you dress smartly, cleanly, snappily, stylishly,
as if you were going to a job interview or a birthday party or
an outing. If you dress for each day expectantly, importantly,
smartly, then each day will become that.