Dare to Self Improve

Self Promotion is always a little awkward. You want to tell people about this awesome thing you might have done or might be involved with, but you don’t want to come off as a show-off or overly proud.

For example, I just received a recording of my first open mic performance. I put it up online and wanted to tell a few of my friends about it. It was certainly not the best performance I’ve done since I was incredibly nervous, but I’m still proud of the effort as well as the balls it took to do it on a whim!

So I decided to post the video on my myspace and facebook page. But in order to balance out the “self-promotion” awkwardness, in the description I wrote about how nervous I was, and finished with a “Thanks for letting me share” (even though they aren’t really “letting” me do anything).

If you need or want to self-promote, I think its important to include a statement of humility. This way, not only will people see how awesome you are, but they’ll like you more for not coming off incredibly vain about it.

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