I’m Being Branded!

Figuratively that is.  I’ve managed to get myself onto Suzy Greaves’* Platinum Programme for Big Leapers in the UK.  I can be quite persistent when I want to be and she has the same humour as I do (phew!) so liked this blog.  Actually I think she found the comments funnier than my writing…so do I…which is great but worrying also.  What would happen if all you witty people started your own blogs? 

As a practising Big Leaper I have to attend workshops in my beloved London.  One is specifically about branding and how to create a brand to find your “niche” (very much an in-word at the moment is “niche”) and then once that is determined you can market to your “niche”.  As loyal readers of this blog can tell, I’m all over the place at the  moment writing about anything and everything so Claire Findlater (married to an Archeologist I am not kidding), the branding expert of the Platinum team, has her work cut out for her.  Should I tell her now that my brain is wired that way? Or leave it as a fait accompli after a couple of fun weekends in London?  Oh dear I fear I will disappoint.

Part of the Branding programme requires a 360.  Some of my more sophisticated friends already kn0w what that is but for the likes of you and I it is where your friends and family get a chance to fire up that sizzling hot keyboard and dish the dirt on you.  They are allowed to fill up a whole screen on my strengths and then another one on, dare I say it, my weaknesses.  Apparently it is all very well knowing yourself but it is how others perceive you that really counts.  Which is the tricky bit and when those horrid phrases “reality check” and “coming to terms” will no doubt be used, oh joy. 

I have to find at least 20 family and friends whom I am still on speaking terms with to join in the Julesfest rodeo.  I roped in Ollie and Sophie G. with threats of pocket money withdrawal if they were over-enthusiastic in the box marked weaknesses and tried to get Lexi but her typing skills are way too slow and she has problems with the vocabulary which is a shame as the only bad thing about me, according to Lexi, is that I am useless at forward bends.

Mr. Jules, on the other hand, was very secretive and I had to assure him in two languages and very loudly that I would not be privy to anything he wrote about me. 

God help me.

Copyright Julesritter April 2008

*Suzy Greaves is one of the UK’s top ten life coaches

http://www.thebig-leap.com/