Engage

Just recently I was at a talk and at the beginning of the talk the speaker had everyone stand up and introduce themselves to someone new and each person had to share a fun fact about themselves. After a minute or two we moved on to new people and shared a new fun fact with them. Once we had each talked to about four or five people everyone sat down again at their tables and the talk began.

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The reason I am bringing this up is that the word of the year that I received, back in January, is Engage. Since Engage might seem like a random word for me to receive since I write posts on here somewhat regularly about random things that are going on in my life, I figured it would be good to explain a little about what Engage means to me.

To start off I am more of an Introvert than an Extrovert and while I do go out with friends and to parties, I don't always like starting conversations with people that I may or may not know that well. If I know the person better than I am more comfortable with holding a conversation with them. But once I start talking with someone, whether or not I know them well, I enjoy talking with them about different things, but I am more of a listener than a talker.

I am the maid of honor at my sister's wedding with is next month (August) and I am giving a speech, and like with any speech you have to engage people. So while I am working on my speech I am working in funny moments so that it's not too sad and people are laughing.

Anyhow that's all I have to say for the time being. So I hope you enjoyed reading what I wrote and stick around for more.