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Defining Yourself: What Defines You?
Defining Yourself and Your Life: What Defines You?
This morning I was reading an article about the “C Generation.” This is how young people are being labeled, based on how they define themselves during the pandemic and beyond. Are you allowing your experiences and circumstances define you in a way that will affect your personal life, as well as your online business?
We tend to be defined by a range of factors including demographics, attitudes, historical events like wars or other conflicts, popular culture, political beliefs, and prevailing consensus among researchers. As a result, the lines that define the generations are useful tools for analysis, but they should be thought of as guidelines, rather than hard-and-fast distinctions. I wrote about generational values in my book, Kids and Money: Teaching Financial Responsibility and Values to Children and find this topic to be relevant in business as well.
Personally, I have defined myself by experiences and situations I’ve been in over the years. This includes going through Hurricane Andrew in Miami, being diagnosed with cancer for the first time at age 37, and then returning to California in time to experience the Northridge Earthquake, all during the span of less than six months from August of 1992 until January of 1993.
