This is the counsel offered in an off-handed comment by time and life management guru David Allen (www.davidco.com) when holding forth recently on managing the unpredictables that spring upon the busy executive at the least convenient moment.
Our appearance is one of the few things we guys can control. Most of the time.
Doxa is a classical word meaning ‘appearance’ or ‘splendor’. In the Bible it is used of God and usually rendered as ‘glory’.
Appearance is hardly the most important thing about guys and our lives. Yet our outer look speaks of the care we take of our inner life. It is of course possible to be a head-turning poseur with nothing or only chaos on the inside. But it is also possible to live the well-ordered life, looking good on the outside as one token of our respect for who we are becoming and for those whose paths we will cross on any given day.
Canter Bridge 
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