I'd love to hear back about how YOU define YOU. Here's who I am:
I’m a 42 year old mother, a life-partner, a step-mom, a manager. But really, who am I?
This question is one that I always felt was important to answer. The roles I play help define me and how I play out those roles also calibrates me. What else is there to guage who we are?
Another thing to add is who do I want to be? Who do I strive to be? That is what this blog is meant to bring you, my readers.
Mother – 3 children (tweens and teen)
Step-mother – 2 children (yes, all 5 live with me)
Girlfriend/Life Partner – (isn’t that a cute title? UGH!)
Manager – I have 12 direct reports in a large corporate environment
Runner – I run regularly 3 times a week
Who do I strive to be? Well I guess I just want to be the best I can be at those roles above. Truly that is what I work on.
I strive to be:
A GREAT Mother – one who is nurturing, loving but firm and teaching and leading
A GREAT Step-mom – ominously present when needed and conveniently unimportant when not needed? Haven’t figured this one out and I probably never will.
A GREAT Girlfriend – Fun-loving, supportive, organized and creative and patient (as if I could ever achieve patience)
Manager – I want to be a great leader – One who is supportive and inspirational and yet still achieves goals and metrics
I strive for other things to enhance my life – I want to be a pro at yoga, I want to be lighter and fit. I need to lose about 25-30 pounds.
In this quest for greatness, I have learned many life lessons, leadership lessons and parenting lessons. Visit me again, and I’ll share my learnings with you and hopefully receive more lessons learned from you.
How do you define who you are? Is anyone really clear and maybe I'm just making this more complicated than it needs to be?
2 comments:
Welcome to the blogsphere!
I am Judi, and I define myself in a number of ways:
mother-3 boys
step-mother - 1 from my ex-husband, 4 kids from the couple I live with. We all parent together
sister - 3 brothers, 2 step-sisters
auntie - to LOTS of wonderful nieces and nephews
Pharmacy Assistant/Auditor for a benefits company
Scrapbooker - I have been capturing our memories since 2001
Thanks for participating! I've read your blog and was truly inspired to see that we do live in a world where women help eachother and call eachother "family". Now THAT's the kind of world I want to live in. and THAT'S the kind of woman I want to be. I'm still learning this blog thing and I'll admit, its harder that I thought it will be but I will perservere!
Sincerely, Barb
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