What would your realistic bio say?

"Cries a lot under pressure"

I am often updating my bios on social media - depending, sometimes, on whether I want to attract the attention of particular people. I play around with the words in them and in my work as a CV coach, I often help other people with their own bios.

The general gist is about bigging yourself up, giving the reader the ‘ooh’ factor, name dropping, skills dropping and generally giving a ‘LOOK AT ME I’M ACE’ vibe to the wording.

The thing with a bio is it brings up a lot of feelings. We feel like we’re showing off, or saying over-the-top things about ourselves.

When we write things like we’re ‘excellent’ we feel the ‘ick’. It can be so far out of our comfort zone to write amazing things about ourselves. It is a place of making ourselves sound shiny and brilliant, and, often, we’re writing it from a place of panic and worry as we might be applying for a job or updating a bio online or on a CV because we want to drum up more business.

But what if we were honest?

For example, my bio might say ‘Content creator but hates to plan too far ahead’

‘Makes reels about random things when the mood takes her’

‘Cries a lot under pressure (off screen, of course)’

‘Driven by praise - really needs to be told ‘well done’ a lot’

Hopefully if you’re going through ‘about me’ ick, this alternative is a bit of light relief - if you’re writing your bio, think about the daftest, most honest thing you could say about yourself.

Break the ‘feels’ of the overwhelm of writing amazing things, just for a second. Then, hopefully, smile, and be reminded that saying you’re great isn’t a bad thing. In fact, it’s just the truth.