When Anita Attridge worked in human resources at Merck and Xerox, she frequently kicked off job interviews with a standard request: Tell me about yourself.

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Introduce yourself, Dawn, and tell us a little about yourself and your situation.

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Every person has 13 cards in their reading, some of which change over time, that can tell you heaps about yourself.

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How about when you tell yourself that you should study or you should go on a diet?

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As a regular blogger with a, um, special relationship with my anonymous readers, I can tell you that inviting anonymous comments about yourself is a dangerous thing.

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Take good mental notes because the social dynamics of the room will tell you much about whom you ought to align yourself with and whom you should not.

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So take the sting out of that saying and simply observe yourself and learn what those observations tell you about your attitudes, intents and desires.

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Use your voice to tell people about your successes, and use your voice to defend yourself.

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Let me tell you about a few examples, so that you can judge for yourself.

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