How to prepare for the Seth Godin Summer 2013 internship

(Full disclosure: I want to be a Seth Godin intern.) I'd like to be able to put a bunch of people forward who want and deserve to be considered. As I genuinely don't have anyone to recommend - in my age group/ stage of life / social and business circles you may consider me a little mad for thinking of this as an opportunity. But I can't help but write this, as there is always the chance that a blog post may be enough for someone to hold on to themselves and take a leap in the direction of their dreams. If you are one who is teetering on the fence of applying, then perhaps I could help you to recommend yourself. I am a firm believer in the idea that life takes you on a path - seemingly chaotic, hard and strange at times - and suddenly you arrive at a moment in time, where it all makes sense. I'm not sure whether what makes sense in this moment is that I am the right choice for Seth Godin or not, but I can tell you that something deep within in me has decided I could very well be. And I would not have been ready to say that until this very moment. Here's my small observation for anyone weighing up what to share/ do in order to apply for the internship, or weighing up their chances of success.

It doesn't matter.

Whatever you do between the moment of reading the application requirements, that space between submitting the written form and doing the video, it won't change what you are and have done in the time and space up to then. In order to be successful in your application, you have to vibrate with a particular frequency. That is made up of your usefulness to the project and in relation to other applicants who are looking good to be considered. It takes the full weight of who you are as a person, what you have done with your life, your potential, your skill, your perspectives, your online and visible life to be successful. Every moment of experience counts.

And for that reason, the are only 2 things you can do, to give you the best possible chance of being successful:

1. Interpret the 'brief'.

2. Convey yourself in the simplest, clearest way that presents 'you' in entirety, how you may meet a particular slice of the brief.

If you are wracked with self doubt - alternating with extreme confidence, know this: If you are the right one, you will be picked. If you are not, then your application was this part of the journey, and what you have learned about yourself is what is going to build the next step for you. Be the best agent you can for yourself, revel in what you have experienced, enjoyed, want to be, how you have changed your mind, in work and in life. It all makes you unique. It makes no sense to convey only a part of yourself that you think fits. There is no wrong - just a limited number and type of the right 'fit'. You fit somewhere in the puzzle, it may just not be this one, today. And if you need to hear it, know this. You are amazing, human and great just the way you are. And all it takes is for you to see it, and then you won't even need an internship to take you to where you want to go. Good luck potential interns, and take the experience of applying as experience for whatever you do next. You'll always know that you did apply. So apply today. Bronwyn Durand writes for Marketing Voodoo, for JupiterJasper, the marketing mentor for small businesses. If you'd like to build a strong commercial identity, then try the Brand Whisperer's services. Do you get my free weekly email? Sign up to ’1 Thing to Improve Your Marketing this week’ here.