... Describe yourself When asked to "describe yourself" I always think of it as an open question. There are so many different angles that this response can be written from. Describe yourself as a colour or in one word. This statement is almost to hard to answer. Colours mean many things; they represent countries, occasion and feelings and also evoke emotions. As a colour I would describe myself as orange. There are many different connotations of orange; warm, energetic, happy, fun, cheerful and alive; the list goes on. The qualities of the word orange are how I perceive myself. I think of myself as caring, thoughtful, gentle as well as out going, confident and hard working person. I am an optimistic person, always the one with the glass hall full and not half empty. Being optimistic, I always know that there are choices in life and sometimes everything doesn't work out. I....^_^

When I said I was speaking at a high school, my friends were curious. What will you say to high school students? So I asked them, what do you wish someone had told you in high school? Their answers were remarkably similar. So I'm going to tell you what we all wish someone had told us.

I'll start by telling you something you don't have to know in high school: what you want to do with your life. People are always asking you this, so you think you're supposed to have an answer. But adults ask this mainly as a conversation starter. They want to know what sort of person you are, and this question is just to get you talking. They ask it the way you might poke a hermit crab in a tide pool, to see what it does.

If I were back in high school and someone asked about my plans, I'd say that my first priority was to learn what the options were. You don't need to be in a rush to choose your life's work. What you need to do is discover what you like. You have to work on stuff you like if you want to be good at what you do.