Home and Car Impressions - Harmonizing Your Home and Car with Your Lifestyle

By Collin Miles

There is something great about A-list living and Home and Car Impressions, the thirteenth book of a twenty-one book series (The Insiders' Lifestyle Guides), is the harmony step to achieving such an extraordinary life. The more you pay attention to your surroundings, the easier it becomes to fine tune those things in your life to compliment your image of choice.

Look Inside: What "Your" Home Says About "You"; Prosperity, Wealth, Abundance; Fame, Reputation, Illumination; Relationships, Love, Marriage; Elders, Family, Community; Creative, Offspring, Projects; Knowledge, Wisdom, Self-Improvement; Career, Life Path, The Journey; Helpful Friends, Compassion, Travel; and What "Your" Car Says About "You".

Home and Car Impressions - Harmonizing Your Home and Car with Your Lifestyle by Collin Miles is a fun and entertaining short read. Since jet setting is part of such a grand lifestyle, the Insiders' Lifestyle Guide series theme includes a cultural or travel experience with every book.

Information is Timeless: Everyone holds a secret desire to be part of the A-list seeking a confident, fashionable, and extraordinary life. These series guides make transformation routine to which all men and women will relate - The Complete Makeover Series.

Actionable Strategies: The Insiders' Lifestyle Guide series contains specific strategies in each book and edition that can transform lives. It details social skills of boosting confidence, replacing bad habits, and reinventing one's self. This book will appeal to professionals, parents, and generations of young adults.

Appeal of the Authors: The Insiders' Lifestyle Guides are written by a team of contributing authors, all with a witty, quirky, slapstick appeal.

Series Overview: The Insiders' Lifestyle Guides is a first, of a twenty-one book series, that will be revised and re-launched periodically with all new material. Each book features famous themed cities represented of the book covers and includes an introduction comprising a short story about its featured city.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aauvi House Publishing Group
• Release date: May 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301567287

Collin Miles

Collin Miles is one of the contributing writers for the several Insiders' Lifestyle Guides book series (A Complete Makeover Series). See the several press releases below to learn more about each book. Author Backstory: Collin Miles is a global citizen traveling 120 miles per hour through life, creating excitement and collecting friends all over the world. His love for design and business keeps him hands-on with all his projects. Empowering people to live their best life and be the best person they can be is at the top of what motivates him. Through his books, as well as by example, he consistently sends that message to the world. Smashwords Titles by Collin Miles: Socialite - Make Your Life Fabulous and Enjoy What Life Has to Offer Home and Car Impressions - Harmonizing Your Home and Car with Your Lifestyle Entertaining / Holidays - with Enthusiasm, Taste, and Style Press Releases at AauviHouse.com Press & Media: San Jose, CA (June 29, 2012) - Aauvi House Publishing Group, Rags to Riches Entertainment Division, Announces New Book Release - Entertaining / Holidays - with Enthusiasm, Taste, and Style by Collin Miles San Jose, CA (June 23, 2012) - Aauvi House Publishing Group, Rags to Riches Entertainment Division, Announces New Book Release - Home and Car Impressions - Harmonizing Your Home and Car with Your Lifestyle by Collin Miles San Jose, CA (June 9, 2012) - Aauvi House Publishing Group, Rags to Riches Entertainment Division, Announces New Book Release - Socialite - Make Your Life Fabulous and Enjoy What Life Has to Offer by Collin Miles

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Home and Car Impressions

Harmonizing Your Home and Car with Your Lifestyle

COLLIN MILES

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Rags to Riches Entertainment Group

An imprint of Aauvi House Publishing Group

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Published by Aauvi House Publishing Group at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 Collin Miles

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Titles by Collin Miles

Socialite – Make Your Life Fabulous and Enjoy What Life Has to Offer

Home and Car Impressions – Harmonizing Your Home and Car with Your Lifestyle

Entertaining / Holidays – with Enthusiasm, Taste, and Style

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Contents

Book Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

1 – What Your Home Says

2 – Prosperity, Wealth, Abundance

3 – Fame, Reputation, Illumination

4 – Relationships, Love, Marriage

5 – Elders, Family, Community

6 – Creativity, Offspring Projects

7 – Knowledge, Wisdom, Self-Improvement

8 – Career, Life Path, Journey

9 – Helpful Friends, Compassion, Travel

10 – What Your Car Says

Closing Remarks

End of Book

About the Author

About the Publisher

Books by Aauvi House

Excerpts by Aauvi House

Credits

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Introduction

In its brief history, Aauvi House Publishing Group has become the new it marketers of information-based lifestyle solutions in the self-help and how-to markets for all age groups. Reinforcing a belief that living a planned extraordinarily fulfilled lifestyle is of paramount importance to its readers.

The Insiders’ Lifestyle Guides series is a first, of a twenty-one book series, that will be revised and re-launched periodically with all new material. These books feature famous themed cities represented by the book covers and include an introduction comprising a short story about its featured city. Annually, the series guides will be rolled up as chapter inserts into a single book and sold during the holiday season.

Anyone who desires the secrets to A-list living, values their appearance, is concerned about lifestyle or just needs more information can benefit from reading and continually referring back to the Insiders’ Lifestyle Guides series. Each book – practical in its approach – is full of facts that teach you how to make the most of your life, how to achieve peak performance, and how to maintain general health. In short, the Aauvi House Publishing Group, Rags to Riches Entertainment imprint’s ability to offer its readers a more complete and concise migration path to an extraordinary red carpet lifestyle, just got better.

Information Is Timeless

Everyone holds a secret desire to be part of the A-list seeking a confident, fashionable, and extraordinary life. These series guides make transformation routine to which all men and women will relate.

Actionable Strategies

The Insiders’ Lifestyle Guides series contains specific strategies in each book and edition that can transform lives. It details social skills of boosting confidence, replacing bad habits, and re-inventing one’s self. These books will appeal to professionals, parents, and generations of young adults.

About the Authors

The Insiders’ Lifestyle Guides series are written by a team of contributing authors, all of whom have a witty, quirky, slapstick appeal.

About Our Cover Story – Paris France

Since jet setting is part of such a grand lifestyle, the Insiders’ Lifestyle Guides series theme includes a cultural or travel experience with every book. That is, between promotional junkets, film festivals and red carpet appearances, celebrities can rack up as many frequent-flyer miles as they do trips to rehab. And so can you, once you have an insider bird’s eye view of the possibilities.

Whether traveling by plane or virtually by way of these pages, our cover story, Paris France is highlighted by its lighted sky. There are few places in the world that can boast such powerful icons as the Eiffel Tower, which can own such an embarrassing wealth of architecture and art, and that can also be steeped in such a turbulent and multifaceted history. There is an elegance and finesse about Paris that is hard to miss. Locals are extremely fashionable and it is easy to start feeling out of place on some of the trendier boulevards.

Paris is the capital and largest city of France. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Paris Region. As of January 2009 the city of Paris, within its administrative limits largely unchanged since 1860, has an estimated population of 2,234,105 and a metropolitan population of 12,161,542, and is one of the most populated metropolitan areas in Europe. Paris was the largest city in the Western world for about 600 years prior to the 19th century.

Paris is today one of the world’s leading business and cultural centers, and its influences in politics, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world’s major global cities. It hosts the headquarters of many international organizations such as UNESCO the OECD, the International Chamber of Commerce and the European Space Agency. Paris is also considered one of the greenest and most livable cities in Europe. It’s also one of the most expensive cities.

About Home and Car Impressions

There is something great about A-list living and Home and Car Impressions, the thirteenth book of a twenty-one book series, is the harmonizing step to achieving such an extraordinary life. The more you pay attention to your surroundings, the easier it becomes to fine tune those things in your life to compliment your image of choice.

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What Your Home Says About You

Everything in the unconscious seeks an outward manifestation. If you want to discover your subconscious dreams, fears, and beliefs, look around your home. The greater control you exercise over your environment, the more closely aligned you become with who you truly are. When you create a home that reflects the transformation that you seek, you create an environment that helps you become who you were meant to be.

Environmental Psychology

An incredibly rich and vast field, environmental psychology examines the interrelationship between environments and human behavior while drawing on a number of disciplines such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology, and ecology.

The principles of environmental psychology reveal exactly what makes certain environments supportive and nurturing, while others are unpleasant or stressful. It is also a tremendous asset when it comes to recognizing subconscious meanings and identifying problem areas in the home.

Your home is a template for your life. Once you begin to identify the hidden messages in your home and change those things that do not serve you, you begin to change your life. If you change the template, you change your vibration. For example, the Feng Shui Bagua is an excellent starting point for targeting specific areas in your life.

Make Sure Your Home is a Material Expression of Your Values

Environmental psychology asserts that every object in your home has an influence on you. If you value creativity, does your home possess whimsical items that spark your divine child within? If you want freedom from your overbearing mother-in-law, have you removed that tacky, expensive centerpiece she gave you for Christmas that you dislike? If you want to value yourself more, is your home well maintained and beautiful? Look at everything in your home and make sure it represents what you want in life.

Infuse Your Space with Your Personality

Personal and meaningful objects have a stronger influence over your emotional and mental states than more generalized and impersonal items. You may even want to be creative with your space – make a collage, paint your lampshade, mosaic the top of your dresser. When done with the right intention, personal works of art, especially collages, work on a subconscious level to alter your core beliefs. They have the ability to affect your psyche in a very positive, life-affirming way. With the help of environmental psychology, you may even want to incorporate the use of certain symbols or colors to bolster your intentions.

Clear the Clutter

When you get your life moving, you instinctively want to clear the clutter out of your home and make a fresh start. Sorting out your life by sorting out your junk, results in a tremendous renewal of your life force energy. Clearing the clutter is also a fundamental principle of Feng Shui.

Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so cleaning your clutter can completely transform your entire existence. Everything around you, especially your home environment, mirrors your inner self. So by changing your home you also change the possibilities in your life.

There are four categories of clutter:

1. Things you do not love. You are connected to everything you own by fine strands of energy. When your home is filled with things you love or use, your home becomes an incredible source of support and nourishment for you.

2. Things that are untidy or disorganized. Many of the items seem to just appear in your life, rather than you making a conscious decision to acquire them. Your home is an outward representation of what is going on inside you, so if you are messy on the outside there is a corresponding mess of some kind on the inside too.

3. Too many things in too small a space. Your home starts to feel as if it cannot breathe. Your own breathing will actually become tighter and shallower and you will feel constricted in what you can do in your life.

4. Anything unfinished. Anything unfinished in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual realms clutters your psyche and they are a constant drain on your energy.

The larger the scale, the more these things impose on your ability to get on with your life. For example, buttons that need sewing on, phone calls you need to make, relationships you need to move on from, and many other different forms of loose ends in your life will delay your progress if you do not deal with them. You will be amazed at how your vitality levels soar if you complete all your unfinished business.

Having clutter can make you feel tired and lethargic. It can keep you in the past. Take responsibility for creating a better tomorrow. Clearing your clutter allows you to begin to deal with your problems and move forward.

Having clutter can also congest your body as well as affect your body weight. It can confuse you, leaving you without clarity. People treat you the way you treat yourself. So if you value yourself and look after yourself, people will treat you well.

Having clutter can make you feel ashamed. Wouldn’t you prefer to have a good clear out, repair your self-esteem, and regenerate your social life with confidence? If not, having clutter can depress you as well.

When you clear out your clutter, you leave yourself free to put the important things of your life in perspective rather than being constantly bogged down in the details of day-to-day life. Life is constant change. So when something comes into your life enjoy it, use it well, and when it is time, let it go.

Everything material is merely energy in transition. You may think you own a house or have money in the bank, but the fact is you don’t even own the body you stand up in. It is on loan from the planet, and after you are done with it, it will be automatically recycled and reappear in different form without you. Your body is a temporary temple of your soul.

If you are engaged in any kind of self-improvement work, you will need to update your environment regularly. Letting go of clutter leaves you free to be you, which is the greatest gift you can ever give yourself.

What Your Home Décor Says About You

If a picture says a thousand words, what does your home reveal? From the colors you choose to the style of your sofa, the way you decorate your home speaks volumes about who you are.

What’s Your Design Style?

Take this 15-question quiz at HGTV.com to find out which design style suits your personality best plus get personalized decorating advice.

Q1: Which magazine best suits your style?

a. Real Simple

b. Martha Stewart Living

c. Dwell

d. Architectural Digest

e. Country Home

Q2: For your home, the colors you gravitate toward are often:

a. Neutral, earth tones

b. Soft colors, bordering on pastel: yellows, peach and pale blue

c. Bold oranges and reds, perhaps simple black and whites

d. Rich burgundies and deep, dramatic blues

e. The colors of nature: green and brown

Q3: What type of wood do you prefer for your furniture?

a. Maple, stained black

b. Oak or chestnut

c. No wood; I prefer metal and/or plastic

d. Mahogany

e. Knotty pine

Q4: You prefer your walls to be:

a. Freshly painted in simple, neutral tones

b. Wallpapered with florals or acanthus leaves

c. Glass and chrome

d. Draped in red velvet, to match my cake

e. Accented with exposed stones or beams

Q5: The most treasured item in your home is:

a. Your new, chrome espresso machine

b. A family heirloom

c. An original piece of mod furniture (or art)

d. Your transferware or book collection

e. A flea market find, like the vintage traveling trunk you use for a coffee table

Q6: You like your surroundings to be:

a. Soothing and open

b. Warm and elegant

c. Funky and cool

d. Exquisite and refined

e. Comfortable and practical

Q7: Tea sets should be:

a. Kept in tea houses

b. Set out on the kitchen counter, easily accessible

c. Unusually shaped redesigns on the traditional concept of a tea set

d. Displayed in a china cabinet, preferably on a sterling silver tray

e. Stored in a closet with all the other stuff you only use once year

Q8: A perfect night in your home would be:

a. An in-house, couples massage with a little reiki thrown in

b. A festive holiday dinner with family

c. A kitschy cocktail soiree and impromptu art showing

d. An elegant, six-course dinner party

e. A barbeque with badminton in the backyard

Q9: You prefer the surface areas in your home to be:

a. Clean and clear of clutter

b. Arranged with nicely framed family pictures and a few candles

c. Dotted with a few eclectic gizmos and retro toys

d. Display spaces for your many porcelain and silver antiques

e. Filled with plants and various sentimental collectibles

Q10: Your friends would describe you as:

a. Sophisticated

b. Romantic

c. Quirky

d. Refined

e. Down-to-earth

Q11: To you, a bold color palette for a room feels:

a. Unsettling

b. A little pushy

c. Exciting

d. Regal

e. Too urban

Q12: Your favorite kind of reading chair is:

a. A streamlined sectional

b. A comfy wingback

c. Brushed steel and leather – or plastic

d. A crushed velvet settee

e. A well-worn leather club chair

Q13: To you, it is important that floor coverings be:

a. Simple and neutral

b. Elegant

c. Bold and geometric

d. Dramatic

e. Rugged

Q14: In your living room, the television should be:

a. Quietly hanging on the all, not a focal point

b. Hidden in a beautiful armoire

c. A sleek and strong statement

d. Non-existent

e. Central, but subtle

Q15: A room should in part reflect:

a. Your aesthetic sensibility

b. Your heritage

c. Your creativity

d. Your travels

e. Your love of sports or the outdoors

What’s Your Color Personality?

Color can work wonders in a home’s interiors. It can make a large space more intimate and a small space seem larger. It can update the old, transform the drab and add punch, character and charm. It can create a room’s wow factor.

Color also affects us physically, psychologically and emotionally. If you want to create a certain mood in a space, carefully consider color. To find out what palettes are right for you and your home, answer these questions to reveal you color personality at HGTV.com.

Q1: This is your kind of bedroom:

a. Choose one of four pictures.

Q2: Which piece of artwork speaks to you the most?

a. Choose one of four pictures.

Q3: If you had the opportunity to go on a shopping spree right now, where would you most like to go?

a. Williams-Sonoma Home, Frontgate, Ethan Allen or Gump’s – whichever is closest.

b. That’s easy – a store from the outdoor enthusiast. Weekend hiking trip, anyone?

c. To an estate sale or auction to bid on priceless pieces of silver, china and other fine antiques – perfect for entertaining and to pass down as family heirlooms.

d. An online marketplace such as Etsy: A one-stop shop where I could buy original, colorful pieces and support art at the same time.

Q4: Need to kick up your feet? You’d make a beeline for this spot:

a. Choose one of four pictures.

Q5: If you had to choose one dance to enjoy with a partner, what would it be?

a. Salsa.

b. Tango.

c. Waltz.

d. Couples dancing really isn’t my thing, but I am a fan of yoga.