What is your personal brand ?

I have been mulling over this question for the past few days— "What is my personal brand?". I have attended a meeting where the guest speaker had asked us to think about our personal brand and then to share our personal brand with the person next to us. I was so consumed with the question that I had failed to listen to the person next to me. I have no recollection of whatever that was shared with me. As it happened quickly, my response to the individual was "My personal brand is to do the best in everything I do".

Looking back, while my personal brand sounded rather cliché and at the same time I suspect there are a lot of truth in the statement. It was the first thing that came to me when I was under the time pressure to share something. I am not known to make up things. It was impromptu and without analysis paralysis which is a good data point during reflection. 

Now that I have given it some thought, I will respond with the following when I am presented with the same question in future.

 

My personal brand is to seek out things that I love to do and do the things very well. I want to embody the spirit of experimentation and exploration. Based on my experience, when I do the things that I love, new opportunities will be presented to me in some ways or forms.

This reminds me of a quote from Winston Churchill—

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.