{"id":2685,"date":"2010-01-28T22:57:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T02:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2010-01-28T22:57:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T02:57:46","slug":"really-you-should-get-dressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/really-you-should-get-dressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Really, You Should Get Dressed"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s an article making the rounds on the Internet with the come-hither title 9 Businesses You Can Start in Your Pajamas<\/em>. Apparently, a lot of folks think Nirvana means never having to wear real clothes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For several years, I’ve been trying to stop the madness that involves coming up with new words for entrepreneurial activity. In my tracking of all the cutsey names businessowners give themselves, one of my least favorite has to be pjpreneur. I have tried to imagine why that would be appealing to potential clients. Why, I wonder, would I be drawn to hiring someone or buying their product when their major marketing focus is they haven’t bothered to get dressed? Haven\u2019t figured it out.<\/p>\n

While corporate refugees willingly dispose of their pantyhose and neckties, starting a business from home should not be an invitation to slovenliness. It matters more than you may think.<\/p>\n

The other night I happened to see two episodes of What Not To Wear<\/em> which both featured women who were musicians and music teachers. One was a cellist in New York, the other a jazz singer in Boston. Neither was enthusiastic about fashion, but both were confident in their musical\u00a0 ability. After a fair amount of reluctance and resistance, they were transformed. To their amazement, they both reported performing better than they had in the past.<\/p>\n

Several years I wrote a piece called Staying Motivated When You Work Alone<\/em>. Here\u2019s point number two:<\/p>\n

Dress to accomplish things.\u00a0Don\u2019t give in to the temptation to schlepp around in your old bathrobe.\u00a0 Costume yourself for the work to be done.\u00a0If I\u2019m being a serious writer, I put on jeans and a sweater; if my duties are mostly secretarial, I wear a skirt and blouse; if there are client calls to make, I dress like a tycoon.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And, of course, if you provide a service, you may very well create a costume that is appropriate and memorable. There’s only one kind of business I can think of where pajamas might meet that criteria.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0The psychological lift you get from dressing appropriately may be subtle, but it\u2019s\u00a0important.\u00a0 You just can\u2019t feel like a mogul in your sweats. Keynote speaker Karyn Ruth White concurs. \u201cIt\u2019s easier to ask for a big fee when you\u2019re sitting in your home office looking like a pro. It\u2019s much harder if you haven\u2019t gotten out of your pajamas.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, dressing for success is different when you\u2019re joyfully jobless, but it still starts with getting dressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s an article making the rounds on the Internet with the come-hither title 9 Businesses You Can Start in Your Pajamas. Apparently, a lot of folks think Nirvana means never having to wear real clothes.\u00a0 For several years, I’ve been trying to stop the madness that involves coming up with new words for entrepreneurial activity….<\/p>\n

Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[508,27,510,509],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power-tools","tag-dressing-for-success","tag-growing-a-business","tag-pjpreneur","tag-what-not-to-wear","jsn-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}