RE:THINK

This article is also posted over at The Chief Brand Officer

To our readers who celebrate Christmas - Merry Christmas!

Just as important though are the things you can be doing over this Festive Period to start your Personal Brand off on the right foot for 2009!

Commit to Learning - Steve Pavlina wrote a great post back in 2005 that suggested you should contribute 3% of your monthly income to personal development and learning.  Sit down and perform your own SWOT - discover what some of your weaknesses may be.  then think about your target audience and your objectives for 2009.  For example, if you have weakness in the public speaking department and your have a goal to be a better public speaker - because your target audience need to hear your messages; then enrol yourself in a course on public speaking!

Take a day out to discover your MOJO - what are your passions and what gets you really excited every moorning.  A friend of mine Richard Sauerman talks about your Red Wine Midnight Conversations - what are the things you talk about with friends over a Red Wine?  These are your real passions.  As my friend Gary Vaynerchuk says “There is no reason in 2008 to be doing shit you hate…if you like smurfs, smurf it up!”

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