Mental and Physical Strength

 People qualify strength with the size of your muscles and for the most part they are right. There is a benefit to having a strong body and being is good physical health but people often forget to strengthen their minds. I believe that mental strength is just as important, if not more important than physical strength. Perseverance and a strong sense of will can benefit your life in many ways. One of which is an ability to finish through on your commitments and responsibilities. I believe that this is the most important thing you can do because even through your physical strength will fade your dependability and strong character will reflect on others and make not only you a better person but it will make those around you want to be better. It isn't always easy but with mental strength it is possible. That to me is truly strong.  

Chapter 2 Developing Your Brand

 In Chapter 2 of Essentials of Social Media Marketing it talked about the importance of your image and your personal brand. The text gave a 9 step process to help build your own brand. 

Step 1 is to identify a target audience. I am a Sport Management major so I want my audience to be potential employers. My dream job would be to be an athletic director and help athletes to learn the importance of education for a student athlete. This means that I want to show who I am to educators and school officials as well as sports coaches and sports administrators. 

Step 2 Determine your vision and purpose. As I stated before I want to be a sports administrator and help students to become the best version of themselves both academically and athletically. This is my personal vision of my true self.

Step 3 Determine your values. My values are trust, perseverance, balance, and responsibility. I chose these values because these are the values that make you the best version of yourself. I believe that if you have a balance in your life of fun and following through on your responsibilities then you can be the best version of yourself. However especially for tanagers it isn't the easy road so it takes a strong since of self and perseverance

Step 4 Determine your passions. The text defines passions as what motivates you, and what motivates me would be my school experiences and wanting athletes to avoid the lazy mistakes i made in high school and to get to there full potential.  

Step 5 Determine your goals. I previously stated my goals when I said that I wanted to help athletes to be the best versions of themselves and to meet there potential.  

Step 6 Determine your brand attributes. My brand attributes are to be devoted, openminded, and trustworthy because without a willingness to listen and an ability to be trusted you cant reach anyone on a deeper level.  

Step 7 Determine your strengths and weaknesses. As an example one of my strength is the ability to connect with people and this will help me build a repour with people and help them build a better them. One of my weaknesses is that I am short with people sometimes and I will have to work on my patience. 

Step 8 Determine your competition. My competition will be other teachers and sports administrators who will be vying for the same job as I will be. 

Step 9 Identify yourself in 3 words. I would identify myself as loyal, true, and caring.

This is the breakdown of my personal brand and how I want to be known. Remember that when you are building your own brand one day that the best thing you can be is true to yourself.

Covid Angel

 I am writing to you today about the best part of my life from quarantine. It was the second week in our quarantine in February of 2019. There was nothing good about the year. The mandate had just been passed down to close all the schools. People were without there friends and family and all sense of normalcy  was dashed. Even mother nature was attacking our lives with tornadoes and fires all around. I was beginning to fall apart I couldn't find the will to attend my zoom classes or to even wake up. Then I got an email from our local shelter and the picture of a scared little underfed dog from Tennessee. She had been abused, mistreated and abandoned. The shelter owners wanted us to give the dog a home that she could row in while they found a forever home for her. We agreed to take her in and foster her because there was no room in the shelter.

This dog was scared and trembling. I sat with that dog and hand fed her until she was comfortable with people. This dog gave me a reason to get up in the morning and she would sleep on my head and constantly cuddle with me. I called the shelter and put in a application to adopt this dog and Dolly became a full fledged member of the family. 

Dolly has brought so much joy to my life and has been my confidante and my biggest fan since that day. She has even come to school with me and helped bring joy to others peoples lives.

She is my little Covid Angel