A new year invariably brings thoughts of change, of self-improvement, of new beginnings. So it is with Cosimo: as we celebrate our new blog, I’ll take a look throughout January at our library’s worth of books, current and classic, on topics of self-help, personal development, and refreshening the mind, body, and spirit. If you’re ready for a fresh start yourself, stay tuned throughout the month for some ideas to get you motivated.

Sheila Grant has successfully re-imaged over five hundred women since 1985. She worked as a fashion director for TV shows on CBS and NBC, then started her own Image consulting firm, taking individual clients, and conducting seminars and workshops for women. She also became a Ford model at the age of forty-three, after her own re-imaging. Now, she shares her secrets in Any Woman Can!: How to Get a New Look and a New Life. In this inspiring and affirmative book, Grant reveals how you don’t have to be rich, thin, or young to get a new image and a new life. All you need is the will to change, and this book tells you exactly how to do it. In a friendly and accessible voice, Grant offers woman-to-woman advice and practical exercises in wardrobe, makeup, hair, body, voice, posture and more, including dating advice for the 40+ woman. Sheila also shares her own personal story, full of triumphs and tribulations, to demonstrate that if she could re-image her own 40+ self to find confidence, happiness, a new job, and a husband — then any woman can!

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