Is it normal for your hair stylist to give you homework when you walk out of the salon? My stylist Matt does.

Matt and I leave no subject uncovered during my hair appointments, so let’s just say we know each other pretty well.

A few months ago when I was having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, Matt was finishing my hair he said something that has stuck with me. He turned my chair around, looked directly into my eyes and said, “You need to start thinking as if…as if you are successful because if you start acting as if, you will be.” That was my homework assignment, to act as if.

Last week when Rachel Cosgrove launched her new book The Female Body Breakthrough, she sent along her first coaching video where she talked about her first lesson: To act as if you are fit. She firmly believes that if you change your thinking your actions will follow.

I think Matt and Rachel are on to something. If you want to be a success in business, at school, at a body transformation, or whatever goal you set for yourself you must change your mind.

How do fit and successful people act, how do they dress, how do they walk, how’s their posture, how do they talk, what do they read, what do they eat? Watch them. Learn from them. Act like them. Repeat.

Now, I better run I need to get my hair done and look presentable in case the Sports Illustrated Swim Suit photographers stop by for a photo shoot…as if!