Personal labels: How to use them without having them work against you

This resonates with me and I’m sure with a lot of you:

“Be proud of the ones you carry: Don’t hold on to negative labels forced on you over the years. We’ve all had people push us around and label us as things we aren’t. You don’t have to hold on to those. They might never have been in danger of showing up in an Instagram bio, but they are still probably floating around in your brain. Drop them. You get to define yourself, you know you best. Be honest and knock out the bad ones that have been floating around undeserved.”

annadownsouth's avatarAnna Down South

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I’m on social media a lot, it’s a big part of my marketing job, and because of that I spend a lot of time looking at peoples bios. Social media bios have always been interesting to me because there is limited space and people normally try to condense a whole lot of themselves into them. They normally rely heavily on labels.

I have a love/hate relationship with labels. I love certain ones that express my hobbies. Throwing the “novelist” label up in my Twitter bio made me feel official, even if I haven’t had one of them published yet. I felt somewhat vindicated my hard work- I’ve written seven books, I have the right to call myself that. These kinds of labels are easy to grab at, they’re wonderful and they accurately portray how we’re using our time. They’re personal, that’s what we identify as. They define us and our…

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