I’ll give you $1000 a month to tell me how to dress!

[Joe S.]

I’ll give you $1000 a month to tell me how to dress! … or not!!!

So today I met with a friend/realtor acquaintance at a closing. And he had on a jacket with a matching sweater. His wife was with him they were dressed just right  for the touch of cool weather.

I told him he looked sharp which made him very happy and he told me he was paying a mentor $1000 a month to teach him how to dress. He then went on to tell me about how he was hiring mentors/ coaches  to help him. The mentor/coach was making him believe that this was going to make him super successful.

 I kind of figured hard work and making good choices with your money has the biggest bang for the buck, but hey I’m still open to learn. From my observations the wealthier a person gets the less they try to prove it. (Some exceptions to this of course.) Some rich people even go to a little bit of trouble to hide it. It seems like the coaching/mentoring industry goes to great lengths to try to prove they are wealthy in order to get other people to believe in them. At least that has been my perception.

Would you pay somebody $1000 a month to tell you what to wear as far as a wardrobe?

[Karl B.]

I would not. If I wanted to dress 'cutting edge': I know plenty of women who have style sense and would gladly take me to the relevant stores to show me what to buy to make me look nice. I can think of a better way to spend $1000 (like a nice vacation). 

PS. I must admit, on most days I'm dressed like a vagrant as I'm working on my rental properties in one form or another (today I painted a kitchen) but I do have some nice threads to go galivanting around town in.

And I agree: the most successful people I know are very down to earth. They may have nice cars but the one they drive most is typically nothing special and you would never guess they were as successful as they truly are. The people who dress super flashy are often crumb bums.