Are you a power suit or a petticoat? How you present yourself can say a lot about how you feel about yourself. Your haircut, your clothes, your facial expressions, how you enter a room, even your make-up. Think about who you are, who you want to be and how you want the world to perceive you.

Be many things, just don't be boring. Gretchen Rubin, founder of the Happiness Project, gives us 7 topics to avoid if you don't want to be a bore -- an instant classic. Rubin warns: "Be on guard ... for glazed expressions, noncommittal grunts, or darting eyes."

We concur.