Business Executive Consulting Pearls: Uncomplicated Personal Branding

Business Executive Consulting Pearls: Uncomplicated Personal Branding: The new buzz word these days is “Personal Branding”. The words scare people because you immediately think of people such as Russell Simmons...

My Beauty: Embrace or Fight!!

A Facebook friend of mine shared this photo. I immediately gravitated to it because the words are the very essence of who I am and the way I have lived my life. I haven't lived it this way because I tried to but it "just happens". Consistently when I am caught between doing something someone else's way or doing it my way then my way tends to win out. I try so hard to conform but I can't.
So often I am disturbed because I don't feel like I am that go to friend or the one that everyone loves and adores. I seem to the last resort. Why? Because I am the one that calls a spade a spade, whether it's in my hand or someone elses.
It finally dawned on me one day - that's actually my brand; it's who I am! So I can either embrace it or fight it. When I embrace it, I live my life more authentic. When I fight it, I live my life in fiction. I think of all the years I spent in pain. My body hurt from head to toe. I wasn't myself although I was thriving according to other's peoples standards. Today, I'm pain free and thriving according to MYstandards; reinforcing my brand! I am committed to embracing me!
When it's all said and done my strength comes from God and He alone sustains my existence. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Each day I make a choice to either errode my brand or reinforce my brand. Today I am making the choice to reinforce my brand by letting the real, positive, open, outspoken Susan stand up!!!