8 Random Things About Me: Blog Meme

by Des Walsh on July 14th, 2007

On the Today’s Women in Business blog, top blogger Krishna De tagged me for a blog meme on 8 random things about myself.

It’s an interesting exercise.

Here goes.

8 random things about me

My parents were both schoolteachers. My mother, herself the daughter of a schoolteacher, taught in schools in rural communities and in Sydney, in later years specialising as an “infants’ teacher” which would now be known as “early childhood teacher”. My father was an economics teacher in country and city high schools, before embarking on his dream of a political career.
I majored in History at the University of Sydney. I specialised in medieval and early modern European history and for a while knew a lot about Queen Elizabeth I’s obsession about not wanting anyone to discuss the “next succession” after she passed on
I visited East Berlin before the Wall came down and still remember the feeling of physical relief I had when the S-Bahn train crossed back from East Berlin into the West
I drove a taxi in Sydney for six years, off and on - learned a lot about life, about people and about mental toughness
I’m passionate about helping people through my coaching - I believe we all have levels of potential we have never tapped
I’m a perennial optimist - Mark Twain or someone said “most of the things I’ve worried about have never happened”
I live five minutes drive from Pacific Ocean beaches - walking on the beach most mornings, swimming and body surfing keep me in touch with what matters, refresh me and give me perspective
My username on several social networking sites is “beachblogger” - see previous item

Part of the deal is that I now have to nominate some other people to do their own post in like mode.

And the lucky nominees to carry this meme forward, several of my colleagues on the b5media Business Channel, are (drumroll here):

Susan Gunelius (Brandcurve), Eric Eggertson (Common Sense PR), Rico Mossesgeld (Contract Worker), Sean Kelly (Franchise Pick), Darlene McDaniel (Interview Chatter), Maricel Ferrer-Custodio (Property Crossroads), Steven Fisher (Startup Spark) and Kelly Phillips Erb (Taxgirl).

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