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Your brand is your trust mark – it distinguishes you from the field. Not like competition, but like uniqueness.
As Tom Peters aptly predicts "It's Brand YOU or canned you; become distinct or extinct". It makes you a (very well) known entity. It's how you connect with the people you intend to serve. Speaking of service, that's the real essence of Brand YOU – making your talents, gifts, experience, knowledge and value adding products so well known, that the people who want and need them can easily find you.
Creating brand YOU is not for the faint of heart! To become a brand, you must be willing to put your SELF on the line every day. Being of real service to others is loaded
with emotional challenges and opportunities to fail.
The benefits are unmistakable! Becoming a Brand is truly evolutionary, incredibly freeing and soulfully rewarding. If you are a service-oriented individual (and who
isn't in the new economy), there is no better way to live.
The Brand you phemenom The world of work is changing dramatically. Soon there will be no such thing as a JOB (Thank goodness for
that, I've never been able to keep one for more than a year!) Now is the age of the PROJECT and virtual teams.
The question becomes, what do you want to work on? Is it a WOW! Project?
The guiding principle is, Work matters, it's not just something you do.
The great paradox is: You are on your own AND You've got to be an expert collaborator / networker in order to survive (NO! Thrive).
The pioneer days have returned in a most extraordinary way and anyone can play - days when courage and fine craftsmanship is what got you noticed (Not OFFICE POLITICS! UGH!).
Tools of the trade are Creativity and Self-expression and Passion and above all FOCUS!
Our "Brand YOU" heroes are Ben Franklin, Amelia Earhart, Emerson, Helen Keller and Napolean Hill (Michael Jordon, Martha Stewart!).
Our champion is Tom Peters.
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