Gratitude Contest

A few years back, I challenged readers of my Career Tips newsletter to write a haiku that represented their value proposition.  For example:

Helping job seekers
Frustrated with their searches
Always rewarding

 

I received a number of creative submissions, which you can review here.

 

So, in keeping with yesterday’s theme of gratitude, I’m going to do another haiku contest.  Your assignment is to write a haiku to / about someone to whom you are grateful.  (You don’t have to reveal to whom, unless you would like to.)

 

This could be a parent, child, other relative, teacher, mentor, past boss, or anyone who did something that you appreciated.  It might even be someone you don’t know and didn’t have a chance to thank, such as that person who paid for coffee for the next person in line and then left.

 

I’ll put all of the entries in a new blog posting, and if there are enough, I’ll provide a survey link where you can vote on your favorites, and we’ll select a winner.

 

In case you’ve forgotten what a haiku is, it’s a 3-line poem, in the 5 / 7 / 5 format:

• The first line is exactly 5 syllables
• The 2nd line is exactly 7 syllables
• The 3rd line is exactly 5 syllables

 

Haikus have 3 lines

Five, seven, five is the key

Why not write one now?

 

Send your entry to me at John@JHACareers.com, or enter it in the comments below.