Brand Me

For years now friends, family and colleagues have called me by the nickname, "AG". A is for my first name and G is for my last name. Get it?

Not out of necessity, both my first and last names are rather easy to pronounce, unlike Ardwen Ghamar, for example.

Over the years it has evolved into my own personal brand[ing]. Brand Me. This blog is now the latest extension of my brand, BEINGTHEAG. My user name IAMTHEAG, is a bold brand statement. There may (LOL) in fact be other AG's out there in the dark, but my claim is that I am THE AG. Sound it out if you can.

Unlike some of my other rantings, I don't think I'm going to put my brand on a t-shirt or author a cook book, although I have a "branded" a grill recipe called "AG's 5-star Burgers", where the five star reference has less to do with quality but is in fact a brand ingredient, namely beer...imported...with a red star in the label...green bottle...


I'm not exactly sure why I've chosen to post this, or I've forgotten. Perhaps because when my brand is put into phrase, without the aid of proper grammar, punctuation and spacing, it appears like a foreign language and is confusing. But that was part of the idea - it is after all, MY brand for ME. I'm not selling fast food, cleaning products, cigarettes, shampoo or t-shirts (yet) with it.


I think another reason for the general acceptance of my brand is because I've spent most of my adult life living in foreign countries, where English is the second language (including England) Pronunciation (of my name) was always...entertaining to say the very least. A short simple acronym with easy to pronounce letters, made communication easier and more importantly, I was remembered.

And that is what it's all about in the end anyway, or? Applying the understandings of the Brontosaurus to our lives in general; we are born, we live, we die - the idea is to "get bigger in the middle", or to make your mark, in what ever way you are able.

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