advice...me?

I can honestly say I love to seem like I always know what I am doing.

Now that you've processed that...realize that THAT is the method behind my madness. Smiling and nodding will get you alot further in this world than you realize. So will going home and informing yourself about every single thing you hear in passing that you have no idea about.

Recently, people have been asking me for advice, career advice...not love, clearly...though if someone would like to trade tips and tricks, I'm game. Thing is sometimes I feel like when I look at my career I am looking from the outside in, because I always just did what felt right and didn't do what felt wrong, call it an inner compass dialed for happiness...in this case dialed slightly north and quite east.

But I think I managed, for the most part, to get it down on paper...lets see...

...set a path and be ready for it to detour...get stuck in the mud...and sometimes hydroplane. just enjoy the ride, and try everything, working all the time is alot better when you love what your doing....and I dont just mean hair...I mean the niche in hair you love...and share your dream with everyone because you never know who is listening and who can do something about it....find out the people who are doing what you want to do and become their friend, let them become your mentor...you aren't supposed to be as awesome as them yet and if you are study their habits that made them more effective than you, dont snake their job or steal their contacts there is enough work out there for all of us that we don't have to "want someones job" but we can create our own...be a person to admire and even if your not ready fake it....but most importantly...just work smart, play hard, be nice and be yourself, it makes it all much easier...let the universe show you how amazing it can be, be forward focused but be realisic, be a visionary who has a vision for their future and the openness to allow it to transform beyond what they thought was possible...

and lastly smile and laugh when you make the "wrong decision" because you just layed another brick on the road to your amazing future

Ciao

Nicoletta

p.s. In no way is my path done, I have big goals and dreams, but I couldn't be happier about what I have accomplished in two years at the age of 23, I don't claim to be all knowing, I just know what worked for me, edit as necessary.

disclaimer:: this is not to say I never broke down from being, well, broke, frustrated, angry, consufed, sad, did I mention broke?, sick, lacking health insurance, lonely, worn out, and/or hysterical...but these break throughs are part of that amazing process and can't be ignored.