It, like, totally matters.
In a not-so-recent discussion with my boss I was asked what I felt my strengths are. Flippantly, I replied “my sparkling personality!”
Humor and levity can do a lot.
In fact, until I know someone, I tend to keep the personality under wraps for fear of being stereotyped as a “bubbly blonde.” To me, bubbly blonde implies dumb. Sorry y’all, but I am not fooled by your M&M alphabetizing tricks!
It made me think, how important is that sparkling personality in my working and personal life?
I found out that I’m still quite shy, but once I’m comfortable that quirky personality is out in full force (and more so when I’ve had a drink or two.) I like to make people feel good and positive.
I also learned that being polite and using humor and building relationships with people is beneficial. People respect you more, like you more, and are more willing to help you out if you have a genuine sparkling personality. It also makes you more susceptible to being taken advantage of.
One of my goals is to stop being so shy and just be myself–that bubbly, Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows self.
I’ll abstain from becoming a raging bitch (at least until I’m old and it becomes allowable.)
PS. Sorry to all for calling the old lady (well, not THAT old–60′s ish) with the handicapped tag in the big white car at Price Chopper a bad name. But just because you’re old and have a handicapped tag on your car doesn’t mean you don’t have to obey the rules of parking lot etiquette–they point the parking places different directions and paint those arrows a specific way for a reason.
