Or maybe you need an image consultant to help with your brand or a personal trainer to get more energy.

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While athletes might demonstrate extraordinary self-control throughout years of training, they experience an out-of-body experience when they win the ultimate prize, said Los Angeles-based image consultant Farrah Parker.

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Excess weight can convey weakness or a "lack of control, " says Amanda Sanders, a New York-based image consultant who has worked with senior executives at Fortune 500 firms.

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At the age of35, Linda Arroz made a major career change: from a working on the assembly line at a General Motors plant as a spot-welder to an image consultant in the corporate and fashion worlds.

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"Voices can indeed be changed and the pitch, pace, tonality and voice pattern can be modified to exude power, control, and position someone as the obvious leader, " says Gloria Starr, an image and etiquette consultant.

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She has also agreed to become a creative consultant and Style and Image Director.

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The image of a "fat cat" consultant spending more time on the golf course than on the wards is one that we're likely to see borrowed over the coming few days, as senior doctors reject a new contract.

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Keeping that pyramid image in mind, at the top of the pyramid sits a person or firm known as the pension consultant.

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Obama can afford to produce positive and negative ads that could serve to soften his own image while hurting McCain's, Campaign Media Analysis Group's Evan Tracey, CNN's consultant on ad spending said.

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