Becoming UNSTUCK with your style!

I often hear people telling me that they are bored with their outfits, their style, their life, their job.....

Could this be Hedonic Decline? Meaning - the repeated consumption of hedonic (pleasurable) stimuli resulting in a decline in enjoyment.

In today's fast past world, we can safely say many of us are on a hedonic decline treadmill whereby we must continually find new and better experiences merely to maintain our current level of satisfaction. Thus, a diminished hedonic response has clear implications for general well-being.?

Here are some practical points:

• Hedonic decline?occurs when repeated exposure to something reduces our enjoyment of it.
• For example, hedonic decline can cause people to derive less pleasure over time from their favourite food, art, and relationships, the more they engage with those things.
• This drives people to continually search for new things and experiences in order to maintain their current level of happiness.
• Certain factors can mitigate the likelihood of hedonic decline, like consistently engaging with a wide range of different things (e.g., different styles of art, new activity, new style).
• When people stop engaging with something, their hedonic response to it tends to recover over time, which means that when they engage with it again they'll enjoy it more. Interesting!

How is this related to your personal style? Everything! So when you dress yourself everyday if you feel that your clothes do not match the change or emotions you wish to see in your life then I believe its time to change your style.

This means EVOLVE: Your wardrobe is full of old clothes, old memories and old associations good and bad. It is important for you to start to realise that the person that used to wear those has evolved, moved on and an updated more fabulous person exists in its place.

The way to remain true to your style, authentic in what you wear, continually evolving and not bored- is to first look in your wardrobe. This doesn't instantly mean ditch everything.

This does mean:

• Culling the old and unused
• Playing with the existing fun & useful pieces: re-inventing pieces into new outfits often gives you the same hedonic feeling as purchasing something new.
• Experimenting with new colours and shapes.
• Packing away items you love but a little bored with and bring them back out in 12 months.
• Shop for 'new me' pieces.

Importantly do not remain stuck with the same ole.

In this world of insta everything, you run the risk of hedonic decline which is not a natural state to be in as it more often than not causes deep unhappiness.

And equally nothing wrong with culling and starting all over with what is authentically you. When investing your money in a style overhaul/ new clothes equates to inner joy, personal and professional development, then it's a wise move.

In this world of insta everything, you run the risk of hedonic decline which is not a natural state to be in as it more often than not causes deep unhappiness.

Interested to know how you to slow down Hedonic Decline and become unstuck? let's chat.

About Me:?I'm a personal stylist based in Sydney, travel worldwide for my clients and if in person is not possible, I conduct virtual style consultations.?I help women and men to fearlessly?express their 'visual' voice?through their style. I have an innate intuition that allows me to see what you don't about yourself. You will see when we work together, it's more about discovering or re-discovering YOU. If you want to harness your creative flair and to stand out from the rest in your own unique way, let's chat about making some 'silent' noise with your style.?

You can read more about me?here?and follow me on?IG?@stylebygessica?where you will be inspired by my style curations to commence shifting your style boundaries and shake things up.?

Stay Stylish, and if you're not, I can help you Be!

Gessica