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How To Brand Yourself To Live a Happier Life
I recently found this great article about living a happier life by understanding and owning who you are, deciding how you want to be perceived, and how you are going to convey that to others – ultimately learning how to be your own marketing manager and establish your brand. Check it out…
“You may never have considered going into marketing before, but I hate to break it to you: you’re there already. When it comes to your own life, you are marketing your personal brand every single day, whether you realize it or not.
Marketing boils down to how you serve yourself up to those around you and what you consistently offer to them. The work you do and the friendships you provide are an experience you enable others to consume. When marketing yourself, it’s about consciously building that experience so that you can effectively get what you want in return from your life….
The key here is to take control. You are your own brand manager, and you have to set the course for your own brand experience. It’s your show — love your brand.
When scoping out their business models and marketing plans, all the big brands do an analysis to identify what they are particularly good at and what they want to develop. Big brands pull together an inventory of skills that could possibly make them who they are, and they construct it into a brand definition.
You should do the same as your own personal brand manager. Without a proper definition of your personal brand, you can’t possibly market yourself. Part of that process is also identifying how your brand can be unique from others in the same space, and how to build an experience, unlike all others around you.”
Read full article: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228569#ixzz2phBPuxGG
Based on my strengths and uniqueness, my brand personality traits are: vivacious, conscientious, nurturing, loyal, responsible, analytical, and determined….with a pinch of sparkle 😉
What are your brand personality traits? What makes you unique and fabulous?
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“Labelled the world’s ugliest woman….”
“Lizzie Velasquez is one of only three people on Earth born with an unusual genetic ailment that prevents her from gaining any weight. She has never weighed over 62 pounds in her life, and in addition, Velasquez was also born sightless in her right eye.
She discovered a video of herself on YouTube labeled “The World’s Ugliest Woman” prior to her junior year of high school. Unfortunately, the video had already received four million hits on the website. Velasquez’s parents attempted to get the YouTube video taken off, but the unidentified figure who posted it professed he would never remove it.
Instead of suffering from anger, hopelessness and depression, Velasquez took a different approach to her attitude. After educating some high school freshmen about her rare disorder, she challenged the issue of bullying face-to-face and generated a schedule of dialogue arrangements.
As a result, Velasquez appeared on multiple television programs which allowed her to produce three books, including “Be Beautiful, Be You.”” (clashdaily.com)
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“28 Most Iconic Feminist Moments of 2013”
“We all fight over what the label ‘feminism’ means but for me it’s about empowerment. It’s not about being more powerful than men – it’s about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It’s about very basic things. It’s not a badge like a fashion item.” (Annie Lennox)
We all fight over what the label ‘feminism’ means but for me it’s about empowerment. It’s not about being more powerful than men – it’s about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It’s about very basic things. It’s not a badge like a fashion item.
Annie Lennox
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/feminism.html#qKdJxORfQCMqfdYx.99We all fight over what the label ‘feminism’ means but for me it’s about empowerment. It’s not about being more powerful than men – it’s about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It’s about very basic things. It’s not a badge like a fashion item.
Annie Lennox
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/feminism.html#qKdJxORfQCMqfdYx.99
I am a proud, strong, independent women but I have never identified myself as a “feminist”. In my opinion, the term “feminist” is a broad semi-outdated term that means different things to different people.
I believe in equality. I believe that everyone, no matter what gender, race, religion, or sexuality, should be treated equally. HOWEVER, I also believe that there are things men and women are each biologically better at doing physically and mentally. I’ve never liked the statement “women can do anything men can” because I think sometimes we can’t, sometime we can do it better, or sometime we just do it differently. “Equality” to me means giving everyone fair treatment and equal opportunities with the understanding that each of us have different strengths, talents and abilities which should be uniquely utilized to better ourselves and society.
Equality clearly has not been reached yet, but 2013 was a great year for female empowerment, protection, and justice. I wanted to share this awesome article with you which celebrates some of the major victories we’ve had this year. Click the link below and enjoy!
28 Most Iconic Feminist Moments of 2013