A Chic Paris Lockdown – Day 25 – Own Your Star

 May 14, 2020

Fiona Ferris calls Day 25 “Cultivate Your Own Star Quality” in her book, 30 More Chic Days. Fiona encourages us to recognize and enjoy the fact that we are the stars of our own lives. We are the only ones living inside our heads.  Fiona is writing about how we see ourselves in our minds. Whatever our personal style, when we accept and honor our qualities that make us unique, we radiate the confidence of a “star.” We are able to see ourselves as distinct and interesting people. With this vision, we feel free to look at our own specific strengths and see what we can do with them. We develop confidence and joy in our unique talents and skills. She advises us to put the list of our perceived “weaknesses” to the side and focus on building up our strengths.

Fiona points out that when we accept ourselves as the stars of our lives, we naturally take care of ourselves better, we keep our attitude positive and we are able to prioritize our time for positive interactions and activities and avoid those activities and people that are negative drains on our energy.

According to our own personal style, we can incorporate one or more ideas from this chapter as our “star behavior”. It might be using that special scarf when we are running errands or setting the lunch table with the nice silver for our lunch at home alone. Why not? We will enjoy that little extra touch of beauty in our day. That is really Fiona’s whole point – we are the super-star of our existence – let’s own our unique take on life and live it up!