Personal Reflective Essay: Defining Myself

I have spent my entire life trying to discover and understand who am I, when I joined the Coaching class and was asked to introduce myself for 3 minutes it sounded like a breeze in the sand. Then I was asked to do it again without repeating my introduction and boom that was easy once more. In my head I am a Human Resources professional and all we do is talk when interviewing, reprimanding, training, coaching, guiding, accessing and many more times. Then the last blow came I have to introduce myself for the third time round, my thoughts were racing what have I not said about myself, what did I tell the 2 previous candidates, “what’s new Daisy, you have to find it think! think! I said to myself’. Well I managed to introduce myself the third time

I honestly do not have one way of defining who am I, it is a very broad and open ended question that tickles my mind whenever I think about it. I can define myself based on my religious beliefs, the community I come from, my tribe, the languages I speak, the school I went to, where I grew up, the countries I have been too, the cultures that I am familiar with, my professional qualification, my parents who they were or what they did, I can define myself as a sister, brother, cousin or an aunty, the organisations I have worked for, the church I go to, the school and college I went to, the season or person I am named after, my fashion sense, the sports I like and play, the cuisines I love and the dishes I can cook, my physical attributes, my values and belief systems, my friends, the books I enjoy reading, the movies I have watched, including series, my general knowledge, the skills I hold, the virtues I can also define who I am by my marital status and the number of children I have. The question who am Iis a mirror and it reflects back the picture that you want to see at a particular