Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

Expensive clothes with inappropriate or inexpensive shoes may send an unflattering message.

Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.

French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'