Have you ever been asked to describe yourself in three words or less? You know – while you’re sitting at some conference, or in a small group discussion when they do the ice-breaker exercise: “Tell us your name, why you’re here, and describe yourself in three words or less. Who wants to go first?”
I have a really hard time with the three-word part of it. A REALLY hard time. I sat down one night a few months ago, and decided to see how many words or phrases I could easily come up with that I (or others) have used to describe “Me.” I easily came up with well over 200, and the list continues to grow. It’s a good exercise in self-reflection if nothing else.
The Many “Me”s
Activist Aging Alumni Analyzer Antique lover Art fan Arthritic Articulate Artist Aunt Babysitter Baseball fan Bead maker Big-assed Big-chested Bill payer Bleeding heart Blue-eyed Board member Book reader Borrower Boss Bossy Brutally honest Business owner Candle-burning Candy maker Canine phobic Card maker Caregiver Caring Cautious Challenging Chili maker Chill Client Committee chair Cook Cousin Creative Cryer Curly-haired Customer Dancer Daughter Daydreamer Descendent-from-royalty Difficult Director Doll collector Early Easily distracted Easily entertained Eclectic Editor Employee Employer Encouraging Excel guru Ex-friend Ex-girlfriend Ex-lover Ex-wife Eyeglass wearer Facebook addict Fair-minded Faithful Fiber artist File clerk Foodie Football fan Forgiving Friend Frumpy Funny Genealogy buff Generous Gentle Giggler Golfer Gourd artist Gracious winner Granddaughter Ground breaker Gullible (sometimes) Hard working Headache sufferer Heartbreaker Heartburn sufferer Helpful History buff Hockey fan Hopeful Housekeeper (well, maybe not….) Huggable Humorous Impatient Independent thinker Insensitive (not intentionally) Intellectual Internet junkie Intolerant Jewelry designer Journalist Kind Knitter Landowner Late Laugher Lazy Learner Lender Letter writer Liberal Listener Logical Loyal Magnets collector Manager Mentor Miniatures collector Mom bank Mom cab Monkey-brained Morning person Mother Moviegoer Museum browser Music lover Night person Non-judgmental Nostalgic Number cruncher On-time Open-minded Optimistic Organized Painter Panelist Paper crafter Paralegal Parent Passionate Patient (both kinds) Patriotic Pensive Percussionist Pet owner Photographer Piano player Pioneer Planner Poet Pool Player Postcard collector Procrastinator Project manager Public speaker Rebellious Recipe collector Quitter (yes, it's been known to happen!) Remote Rock-collector Romantic Root beer lover Sales clerk Sarcastic Scatter-brained Scrap-booker Seafood fanatic Self-aware Self-indulgent Self-sufficient Selfish Sensitive Servant Sexual SharePoint-expert-wannabe Shell collector Shopper Silly Singer Sister Sketcher Small-toed Smartass Snack-eater (especially at 3pm) Snobbish Sober Sober cab Songwriter Spiritual Stew cooker Storyteller Student Stuffy Supervisor Supportive Survivor Swimmer Talker Task-master Taxpayer Teacher Teapot collector Tea-ring baker Theater-goer Thoughtful Tour-guide Trainer Traveler Tree-hugger Trip planner Truthful TV watcher Unapproachable Unitarian Universalist Vendor Victim Waitress Water drinker Wenchie Wine drinker Wise-cracker Woodcrafter Word guru Writer Xylophone player Young-at-heart Yuppie Zoo member
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