Can You Write Your Headline?

Do you know yourself? Do you know yourself well enough to describe yourself--the essence of who you are? Would you be able to write a headline describing YOU?

Can you identify your strengths? That should be easy enough, right? It's usually something that we enjoy--something that comes naturally.

How about your weaknesses? Do you understand that you have them? I remember back to about 12 years ago talking to a chef about working together to come up with training for home cooks. I told him what my strengths were. I paused and offered up my weaknesses, and then said, "What about you?" He shared proudly...but only his strengths. We never worked together.

Back to our simple exercise:

• Sit for a bit and contemplate your headline.
• Don't ask others--this is something that you should know.
• This headline doesn't address your work skills or training--it speaks to who you are.
• Give it some thought.
• Go for a walk and meditate on it for a while.
• Get a cup of coffee and focus.

There's a wonderful (and mind challenging) website called Six Word Memoirs. The challenge is to write your memoir--the story of you--in exactly 6 words! Got that? And you thought twitter was challenging with its 140 characters only limitation. Visit their site and try some of their challenges...in 6 words.

Go ahead. When you're ready, share your headline of you with the rest of us. No word limit, but your headline should be condensed enough to function as a headline. Here's mine.

Enjoys Helping Others but Forgets to Help Herself Sometimes.