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Have you joined the rat race? Are you spending your days chasing other people’s goals, working other people’s hours, living someone else’s life?
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<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-651" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="hellokitty" src="http://www.nancerosenblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/hellokitty-236x300.jpg" alt="hellokitty" width="144" height="183" />Have you joined the rat race? Are you spending your days chasing other people’s goals, working other people’s hours, living someone else’s life?</p>
<p>Do your credit card debts or student loans or both; now define what you do and how much you do it for? Or is it some other obligation, like simply earning a living to gain back some dignity after returning home to the parents you once left with hopeful abandon?</p>
<p>Have you stacked up a bunch of mindless diversions or substances or both to make your off time tick by in slow motion? Are you a fan of sleep? Is foggy an attribute of your personal brand? Or does irritable suit you better.<br />
<span style=";"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large"><strong>Behaving just like a rat</strong></span></p>
<p>There’s a reason we call it the rat race. It’s when you feel locked in a maze, bumping up against walls, scratching your way toward a small reward.</p>
<p>For the rodents among us, I hope you get your cheese. Sorry if someone moved it. There’s a Spencer Johnson book that helps you stop caring where it is. I may be wrong because I read it a long time ago, but I think his advice is to just keep running.</p>
<p>Personal brands: consider a different track with a different trajectory and a different outcome.</p>
<p>Design your own amazing race.</p>
<p>Make a life list. Never stop adding to it.</p>
<p>Start off with a blank Word doc, the notes function on your phone or – my favorite – a spiral bound notebook with a cover that represents the best part of you. If you know me, you know that my notebook cover is Hello Kitty.  Her personal brand is uplifting, chic, funny, and sometimes dark. So is mine.</p>
<p>Write down everything your head or heart desires. Put in experiences, adventures, access to important people, travel, occupations, friendships, and if you must: stuff.  I’m not big on visioning boards filled with photos of yachts and big houses, because I’m not sure they represent the feelings you actually want. Dealing with broken pipes and watching the deck peel isn’t really the good life.</p>
<p>Want to write a book? Put that in. Want to end hunger or homelessness? Put that in. Want to speak at TED? Put that in. Want to meet a life partner who takes away all the pain and anxiety of the single life?  In. Want to remain single with the freedom and excitement to engage in new romances? Also in.<br />
<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large">Your amazing race</span></strong></p>
<p>Your amazing race will be different than anyone else’s – although you are sure to meet the right people if you put yourself in the right places. That’s whatever is right for you.</p>
<p>Personal brands: take it solo or find a run buddy. Get ready, set, and go.
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You probably believe you’ve dialed in reality by now. You know how you roll and how the world turns. You think it’s a rat race or a breeze, chaotic or linear.
You may even think you know who you are in the hearts and mind of people who meet you and interact with you.
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<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-651" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="hellokitty" src="http://www.nancerosenblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/hellokitty-236x300.jpg" alt="hellokitty" width="144" height="183" />Have you joined the rat race? Are you spending your days chasing other people’s goals, working other people’s hours, living someone else’s life?</p>
<p>Do your credit card debts or student loans or both; now define what you do and how much you do it for? Or is it some other obligation, like simply earning a living to gain back some dignity after returning home to the parents you once left with hopeful abandon?</p>
<p>Have you stacked up a bunch of mindless diversions or substances or both to make your off time tick by in slow motion? Are you a fan of sleep? Is foggy an attribute of your personal brand? Or does irritable suit you better.<br />
<span style=";"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large"><strong>Behaving just like a rat</strong></span></p>
<p>There’s a reason we call it the rat race. It’s when you feel locked in a maze, bumping up against walls, scratching your way toward a small reward.</p>
<p>For the rodents among us, I hope you get your cheese. Sorry if someone moved it. There’s a Spencer Johnson book that helps you stop caring where it is. I may be wrong because I read it a long time ago, but I think his advice is to just keep running.</p>
<p>Personal brands: consider a different track with a different trajectory and a different outcome.</p>
<p>Design your own amazing race.</p>
<p>Make a life list. Never stop adding to it.</p>
<p>Start off with a blank Word doc, the notes function on your phone or – my favorite – a spiral bound notebook with a cover that represents the best part of you. If you know me, you know that my notebook cover is Hello Kitty.  Her personal brand is uplifting, chic, funny, and sometimes dark. So is mine.</p>
<p>Write down everything your head or heart desires. Put in experiences, adventures, access to important people, travel, occupations, friendships, and if you must: stuff.  I’m not big on visioning boards filled with photos of yachts and big houses, because I’m not sure they represent the feelings you actually want. Dealing with broken pipes and watching the deck peel isn’t really the good life.</p>
<p>Want to write a book? Put that in. Want to end hunger or homelessness? Put that in. Want to speak at TED? Put that in. Want to meet a life partner who takes away all the pain and anxiety of the single life?  In. Want to remain single with the freedom and excitement to engage in new romances? Also in.<br />
<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large">Your amazing race</span></strong></p>
<p>Your amazing race will be different than anyone else’s – although you are sure to meet the right people if you put yourself in the right places. That’s whatever is right for you.</p>
<p>Personal brands: take it solo or find a run buddy. Get ready, set, and go.
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<li class="apf_footer"><a href="http://www.nancerosenblog.com/?p=635">Personal Brands: Wait for It</a></li>
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You take your clothes to the dry cleaner. They say it all be ready on Saturday. You go in. Not ready. You’re leaving for New York and they’ve got your best suit. It’s the lucky one – the one where you’ve gotten every offer or every deal in the last two years. Your suit is being held hostage.
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<p>Do your credit card debts or student loans or both; now define what you do and how much you do it for? Or is it some other obligation, like simply earning a living to gain back some dignity after returning home to the parents you once left with hopeful abandon?</p>
<p>Have you stacked up a bunch of mindless diversions or substances or both to make your off time tick by in slow motion? Are you a fan of sleep? Is foggy an attribute of your personal brand? Or does irritable suit you better.<br />
<span style=";"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large"><strong>Behaving just like a rat</strong></span></p>
<p>There’s a reason we call it the rat race. It’s when you feel locked in a maze, bumping up against walls, scratching your way toward a small reward.</p>
<p>For the rodents among us, I hope you get your cheese. Sorry if someone moved it. There’s a Spencer Johnson book that helps you stop caring where it is. I may be wrong because I read it a long time ago, but I think his advice is to just keep running.</p>
<p>Personal brands: consider a different track with a different trajectory and a different outcome.</p>
<p>Design your own amazing race.</p>
<p>Make a life list. Never stop adding to it.</p>
<p>Start off with a blank Word doc, the notes function on your phone or – my favorite – a spiral bound notebook with a cover that represents the best part of you. If you know me, you know that my notebook cover is Hello Kitty.  Her personal brand is uplifting, chic, funny, and sometimes dark. So is mine.</p>
<p>Write down everything your head or heart desires. Put in experiences, adventures, access to important people, travel, occupations, friendships, and if you must: stuff.  I’m not big on visioning boards filled with photos of yachts and big houses, because I’m not sure they represent the feelings you actually want. Dealing with broken pipes and watching the deck peel isn’t really the good life.</p>
<p>Want to write a book? Put that in. Want to end hunger or homelessness? Put that in. Want to speak at TED? Put that in. Want to meet a life partner who takes away all the pain and anxiety of the single life?  In. Want to remain single with the freedom and excitement to engage in new romances? Also in.<br />
<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large">Your amazing race</span></strong></p>
<p>Your amazing race will be different than anyone else’s – although you are sure to meet the right people if you put yourself in the right places. That’s whatever is right for you.</p>
<p>Personal brands: take it solo or find a run buddy. Get ready, set, and go.
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<li class="apf_footer"><a href="http://www.nancerosenblog.com/?p=635">Personal Brands: Wait for It</a></li>
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Great parties like great sex depend on variety. Different styles, attitudes, even intentions: spice it up – give it that zing. Really great parties, like great sustainable romance, need surprise, along with the two other key elements of happiness: pleasure and meaning.
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<p>Do your credit card debts or student loans or both; now define what you do and how much you do it for? Or is it some other obligation, like simply earning a living to gain back some dignity after returning home to the parents you once left with hopeful abandon?</p>
<p>Have you stacked up a bunch of mindless diversions or substances or both to make your off time tick by in slow motion? Are you a fan of sleep? Is foggy an attribute of your personal brand? Or does irritable suit you better.<br />
<span style=";"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large"><strong>Behaving just like a rat</strong></span></p>
<p>There’s a reason we call it the rat race. It’s when you feel locked in a maze, bumping up against walls, scratching your way toward a small reward.</p>
<p>For the rodents among us, I hope you get your cheese. Sorry if someone moved it. There’s a Spencer Johnson book that helps you stop caring where it is. I may be wrong because I read it a long time ago, but I think his advice is to just keep running.</p>
<p>Personal brands: consider a different track with a different trajectory and a different outcome.</p>
<p>Design your own amazing race.</p>
<p>Make a life list. Never stop adding to it.</p>
<p>Start off with a blank Word doc, the notes function on your phone or – my favorite – a spiral bound notebook with a cover that represents the best part of you. If you know me, you know that my notebook cover is Hello Kitty.  Her personal brand is uplifting, chic, funny, and sometimes dark. So is mine.</p>
<p>Write down everything your head or heart desires. Put in experiences, adventures, access to important people, travel, occupations, friendships, and if you must: stuff.  I’m not big on visioning boards filled with photos of yachts and big houses, because I’m not sure they represent the feelings you actually want. Dealing with broken pipes and watching the deck peel isn’t really the good life.</p>
<p>Want to write a book? Put that in. Want to end hunger or homelessness? Put that in. Want to speak at TED? Put that in. Want to meet a life partner who takes away all the pain and anxiety of the single life?  In. Want to remain single with the freedom and excitement to engage in new romances? Also in.<br />
<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large">Your amazing race</span></strong></p>
<p>Your amazing race will be different than anyone else’s – although you are sure to meet the right people if you put yourself in the right places. That’s whatever is right for you.</p>
<p>Personal brands: take it solo or find a run buddy. Get ready, set, and go.
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Making sausage next to a stockyard is prettier than entrepreneurs behave. Often chaotic, angry, distracted by shiny objects, chasing money, yelling at employees – let’s visit with the tribe of ugly entrepreneurs.
Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller and Huntington were all really ugly people. Maybe not in the face but definitely in the way they behaved toward the [...]]]></description>
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<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-651" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="hellokitty" src="http://www.nancerosenblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/hellokitty-236x300.jpg" alt="hellokitty" width="144" height="183" />Have you joined the rat race? Are you spending your days chasing other people’s goals, working other people’s hours, living someone else’s life?</p>
<p>Do your credit card debts or student loans or both; now define what you do and how much you do it for? Or is it some other obligation, like simply earning a living to gain back some dignity after returning home to the parents you once left with hopeful abandon?</p>
<p>Have you stacked up a bunch of mindless diversions or substances or both to make your off time tick by in slow motion? Are you a fan of sleep? Is foggy an attribute of your personal brand? Or does irritable suit you better.<br />
<span style=";"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large"><strong>Behaving just like a rat</strong></span></p>
<p>There’s a reason we call it the rat race. It’s when you feel locked in a maze, bumping up against walls, scratching your way toward a small reward.</p>
<p>For the rodents among us, I hope you get your cheese. Sorry if someone moved it. There’s a Spencer Johnson book that helps you stop caring where it is. I may be wrong because I read it a long time ago, but I think his advice is to just keep running.</p>
<p>Personal brands: consider a different track with a different trajectory and a different outcome.</p>
<p>Design your own amazing race.</p>
<p>Make a life list. Never stop adding to it.</p>
<p>Start off with a blank Word doc, the notes function on your phone or – my favorite – a spiral bound notebook with a cover that represents the best part of you. If you know me, you know that my notebook cover is Hello Kitty.  Her personal brand is uplifting, chic, funny, and sometimes dark. So is mine.</p>
<p>Write down everything your head or heart desires. Put in experiences, adventures, access to important people, travel, occupations, friendships, and if you must: stuff.  I’m not big on visioning boards filled with photos of yachts and big houses, because I’m not sure they represent the feelings you actually want. Dealing with broken pipes and watching the deck peel isn’t really the good life.</p>
<p>Want to write a book? Put that in. Want to end hunger or homelessness? Put that in. Want to speak at TED? Put that in. Want to meet a life partner who takes away all the pain and anxiety of the single life?  In. Want to remain single with the freedom and excitement to engage in new romances? Also in.<br />
<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large">Your amazing race</span></strong></p>
<p>Your amazing race will be different than anyone else’s – although you are sure to meet the right people if you put yourself in the right places. That’s whatever is right for you.</p>
<p>Personal brands: take it solo or find a run buddy. Get ready, set, and go.
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What ARE the right key words – especially, OMG if you are actually talking to someone face-to-face – or at least cell-to-cell? What are you saying – and how clearly are you communicating it online and offline? You get so much good stuff about your online behavior, I want to touch on the you that [...]]]></description>
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<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-651" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="hellokitty" src="http://www.nancerosenblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/hellokitty-236x300.jpg" alt="hellokitty" width="144" height="183" />Have you joined the rat race? Are you spending your days chasing other people’s goals, working other people’s hours, living someone else’s life?</p>
<p>Do your credit card debts or student loans or both; now define what you do and how much you do it for? Or is it some other obligation, like simply earning a living to gain back some dignity after returning home to the parents you once left with hopeful abandon?</p>
<p>Have you stacked up a bunch of mindless diversions or substances or both to make your off time tick by in slow motion? Are you a fan of sleep? Is foggy an attribute of your personal brand? Or does irritable suit you better.<br />
<span style=";"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large"><strong>Behaving just like a rat</strong></span></p>
<p>There’s a reason we call it the rat race. It’s when you feel locked in a maze, bumping up against walls, scratching your way toward a small reward.</p>
<p>For the rodents among us, I hope you get your cheese. Sorry if someone moved it. There’s a Spencer Johnson book that helps you stop caring where it is. I may be wrong because I read it a long time ago, but I think his advice is to just keep running.</p>
<p>Personal brands: consider a different track with a different trajectory and a different outcome.</p>
<p>Design your own amazing race.</p>
<p>Make a life list. Never stop adding to it.</p>
<p>Start off with a blank Word doc, the notes function on your phone or – my favorite – a spiral bound notebook with a cover that represents the best part of you. If you know me, you know that my notebook cover is Hello Kitty.  Her personal brand is uplifting, chic, funny, and sometimes dark. So is mine.</p>
<p>Write down everything your head or heart desires. Put in experiences, adventures, access to important people, travel, occupations, friendships, and if you must: stuff.  I’m not big on visioning boards filled with photos of yachts and big houses, because I’m not sure they represent the feelings you actually want. Dealing with broken pipes and watching the deck peel isn’t really the good life.</p>
<p>Want to write a book? Put that in. Want to end hunger or homelessness? Put that in. Want to speak at TED? Put that in. Want to meet a life partner who takes away all the pain and anxiety of the single life?  In. Want to remain single with the freedom and excitement to engage in new romances? Also in.<br />
<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large">Your amazing race</span></strong></p>
<p>Your amazing race will be different than anyone else’s – although you are sure to meet the right people if you put yourself in the right places. That’s whatever is right for you.</p>
<p>Personal brands: take it solo or find a run buddy. Get ready, set, and go.
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<li class="apf_footer"><a href="http://www.nancerosenblog.com/?p=635">Personal Brands: Wait for It</a></li>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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We’re having a BBQ with about 50 people up at my house in a few weeks. It’ll be in August, which weirdly enough, is when about a full third of my family and friends are born. So it’s always a big party, featuring crowd favs like ribs, beer and cake.  What could be bad? Nothing [...]]]></description>
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<p>Do your credit card debts or student loans or both; now define what you do and how much you do it for? Or is it some other obligation, like simply earning a living to gain back some dignity after returning home to the parents you once left with hopeful abandon?</p>
<p>Have you stacked up a bunch of mindless diversions or substances or both to make your off time tick by in slow motion? Are you a fan of sleep? Is foggy an attribute of your personal brand? Or does irritable suit you better.<br />
<span style=";"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large"><strong>Behaving just like a rat</strong></span></p>
<p>There’s a reason we call it the rat race. It’s when you feel locked in a maze, bumping up against walls, scratching your way toward a small reward.</p>
<p>For the rodents among us, I hope you get your cheese. Sorry if someone moved it. There’s a Spencer Johnson book that helps you stop caring where it is. I may be wrong because I read it a long time ago, but I think his advice is to just keep running.</p>
<p>Personal brands: consider a different track with a different trajectory and a different outcome.</p>
<p>Design your own amazing race.</p>
<p>Make a life list. Never stop adding to it.</p>
<p>Start off with a blank Word doc, the notes function on your phone or – my favorite – a spiral bound notebook with a cover that represents the best part of you. If you know me, you know that my notebook cover is Hello Kitty.  Her personal brand is uplifting, chic, funny, and sometimes dark. So is mine.</p>
<p>Write down everything your head or heart desires. Put in experiences, adventures, access to important people, travel, occupations, friendships, and if you must: stuff.  I’m not big on visioning boards filled with photos of yachts and big houses, because I’m not sure they represent the feelings you actually want. Dealing with broken pipes and watching the deck peel isn’t really the good life.</p>
<p>Want to write a book? Put that in. Want to end hunger or homelessness? Put that in. Want to speak at TED? Put that in. Want to meet a life partner who takes away all the pain and anxiety of the single life?  In. Want to remain single with the freedom and excitement to engage in new romances? Also in.<br />
<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large">Your amazing race</span></strong></p>
<p>Your amazing race will be different than anyone else’s – although you are sure to meet the right people if you put yourself in the right places. That’s whatever is right for you.</p>
<p>Personal brands: take it solo or find a run buddy. Get ready, set, and go.
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Country western music makes me cry – in part because it’s my daughter’s favorite genre (which is a mom-thing, stuff that reminds your mom of you makes her cry, too). I also cry because they tell such poignant stories about heartache, ambition and simple living.
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<p>Do your credit card debts or student loans or both; now define what you do and how much you do it for? Or is it some other obligation, like simply earning a living to gain back some dignity after returning home to the parents you once left with hopeful abandon?</p>
<p>Have you stacked up a bunch of mindless diversions or substances or both to make your off time tick by in slow motion? Are you a fan of sleep? Is foggy an attribute of your personal brand? Or does irritable suit you better.<br />
<span style=";"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large"><strong>Behaving just like a rat</strong></span></p>
<p>There’s a reason we call it the rat race. It’s when you feel locked in a maze, bumping up against walls, scratching your way toward a small reward.</p>
<p>For the rodents among us, I hope you get your cheese. Sorry if someone moved it. There’s a Spencer Johnson book that helps you stop caring where it is. I may be wrong because I read it a long time ago, but I think his advice is to just keep running.</p>
<p>Personal brands: consider a different track with a different trajectory and a different outcome.</p>
<p>Design your own amazing race.</p>
<p>Make a life list. Never stop adding to it.</p>
<p>Start off with a blank Word doc, the notes function on your phone or – my favorite – a spiral bound notebook with a cover that represents the best part of you. If you know me, you know that my notebook cover is Hello Kitty.  Her personal brand is uplifting, chic, funny, and sometimes dark. So is mine.</p>
<p>Write down everything your head or heart desires. Put in experiences, adventures, access to important people, travel, occupations, friendships, and if you must: stuff.  I’m not big on visioning boards filled with photos of yachts and big houses, because I’m not sure they represent the feelings you actually want. Dealing with broken pipes and watching the deck peel isn’t really the good life.</p>
<p>Want to write a book? Put that in. Want to end hunger or homelessness? Put that in. Want to speak at TED? Put that in. Want to meet a life partner who takes away all the pain and anxiety of the single life?  In. Want to remain single with the freedom and excitement to engage in new romances? Also in.<br />
<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large">Your amazing race</span></strong></p>
<p>Your amazing race will be different than anyone else’s – although you are sure to meet the right people if you put yourself in the right places. That’s whatever is right for you.</p>
<p>Personal brands: take it solo or find a run buddy. Get ready, set, and go.
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<p>Do your credit card debts or student loans or both; now define what you do and how much you do it for? Or is it some other obligation, like simply earning a living to gain back some dignity after returning home to the parents you once left with hopeful abandon?</p>
<p>Have you stacked up a bunch of mindless diversions or substances or both to make your off time tick by in slow motion? Are you a fan of sleep? Is foggy an attribute of your personal brand? Or does irritable suit you better.<br />
<span style=";"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large"><strong>Behaving just like a rat</strong></span></p>
<p>There’s a reason we call it the rat race. It’s when you feel locked in a maze, bumping up against walls, scratching your way toward a small reward.</p>
<p>For the rodents among us, I hope you get your cheese. Sorry if someone moved it. There’s a Spencer Johnson book that helps you stop caring where it is. I may be wrong because I read it a long time ago, but I think his advice is to just keep running.</p>
<p>Personal brands: consider a different track with a different trajectory and a different outcome.</p>
<p>Design your own amazing race.</p>
<p>Make a life list. Never stop adding to it.</p>
<p>Start off with a blank Word doc, the notes function on your phone or – my favorite – a spiral bound notebook with a cover that represents the best part of you. If you know me, you know that my notebook cover is Hello Kitty.  Her personal brand is uplifting, chic, funny, and sometimes dark. So is mine.</p>
<p>Write down everything your head or heart desires. Put in experiences, adventures, access to important people, travel, occupations, friendships, and if you must: stuff.  I’m not big on visioning boards filled with photos of yachts and big houses, because I’m not sure they represent the feelings you actually want. Dealing with broken pipes and watching the deck peel isn’t really the good life.</p>
<p>Want to write a book? Put that in. Want to end hunger or homelessness? Put that in. Want to speak at TED? Put that in. Want to meet a life partner who takes away all the pain and anxiety of the single life?  In. Want to remain single with the freedom and excitement to engage in new romances? Also in.<br />
<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large">Your amazing race</span></strong></p>
<p>Your amazing race will be different than anyone else’s – although you are sure to meet the right people if you put yourself in the right places. That’s whatever is right for you.</p>
<p>Personal brands: take it solo or find a run buddy. Get ready, set, and go.
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<p>Do your credit card debts or student loans or both; now define what you do and how much you do it for? Or is it some other obligation, like simply earning a living to gain back some dignity after returning home to the parents you once left with hopeful abandon?</p>
<p>Have you stacked up a bunch of mindless diversions or substances or both to make your off time tick by in slow motion? Are you a fan of sleep? Is foggy an attribute of your personal brand? Or does irritable suit you better.<br />
<span style=";"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large"><strong>Behaving just like a rat</strong></span></p>
<p>There’s a reason we call it the rat race. It’s when you feel locked in a maze, bumping up against walls, scratching your way toward a small reward.</p>
<p>For the rodents among us, I hope you get your cheese. Sorry if someone moved it. There’s a Spencer Johnson book that helps you stop caring where it is. I may be wrong because I read it a long time ago, but I think his advice is to just keep running.</p>
<p>Personal brands: consider a different track with a different trajectory and a different outcome.</p>
<p>Design your own amazing race.</p>
<p>Make a life list. Never stop adding to it.</p>
<p>Start off with a blank Word doc, the notes function on your phone or – my favorite – a spiral bound notebook with a cover that represents the best part of you. If you know me, you know that my notebook cover is Hello Kitty.  Her personal brand is uplifting, chic, funny, and sometimes dark. So is mine.</p>
<p>Write down everything your head or heart desires. Put in experiences, adventures, access to important people, travel, occupations, friendships, and if you must: stuff.  I’m not big on visioning boards filled with photos of yachts and big houses, because I’m not sure they represent the feelings you actually want. Dealing with broken pipes and watching the deck peel isn’t really the good life.</p>
<p>Want to write a book? Put that in. Want to end hunger or homelessness? Put that in. Want to speak at TED? Put that in. Want to meet a life partner who takes away all the pain and anxiety of the single life?  In. Want to remain single with the freedom and excitement to engage in new romances? Also in.<br />
<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;font-size:x-large">Your amazing race</span></strong></p>
<p>Your amazing race will be different than anyone else’s – although you are sure to meet the right people if you put yourself in the right places. That’s whatever is right for you.</p>
<p>Personal brands: take it solo or find a run buddy. Get ready, set, and go.
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<li class="apf_footer"><a href="http://www.nancerosenblog.com/?p=635">Personal Brands: Wait for It</a></li>
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