Quit Being Comfortable!
Life treating you nicely? Everything going well at work? Having fun on the weekends? Feeling, comfy? Watch out! Sooner or later that warm blanket sense of security you get from your daily grind will start grinding on your happiness. If you’re not careful you’ll slip into a dip of comfort and satisfaction, risking little, gaining little. If you’re heading towards that dip, or feel like you’ve been stuck there for a while, fear not, it’s easy to shake yourself out of it. Put yourself on the line and increase your expectations.
Fostering Successful Twitter Relationships
At a basic level, most prosperous relationships are a two-way exchange of value. If one party is neglecting the other and the balance of value gets out of whack the relationship becomes damaged and potentially fails. With this in mind I’ve been evaluating how I use twitter to interact with those who follow me and also those who I am following.
Low Barriers Of Friendship on Twitter
You don’t use twitter? You silly luddite! Okay actually I just started using it yesterday, I’ve had an account for a while but I never really understood what I was supposed to do with it. The idea that other people care what I’m doing at the moment seemed like a joke, however I’ve realized that there’s more to it than that.
Goals and Personal Accountability
I was watching a show over memorial day weekend on the National Geographic channel about recruits training to become Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies. These people go through what appears to be a fairly intense eighteen weeks of physical training, classroom work and weapons training. They didn’t really go over the barriers to entry as far as applying goes, but from the looks of it, they were not too stringent. One thing that was interesting were the varying levels of dedication that each recruit had toward the end goal of graduating and becoming an actual Deputy.
Acting on Ideas
I’ve got a lot of ideas for various web applications, online communities and business opportunities. When I started writing these all down about a year ago I figured it would be something I’d stick with temporarily, but lose track of. Luckily I haven’t and I’ve managed to grow my list from a few concepts to about a dozen very well thought out ideas.
