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I've had a lot of idontwantto in my head the last few weeks.
The social media mastery course I attended last Tuesday taught a wealth of information I have yet to return to. On top of that, it inspired me to post my company's cause on my website http://www.getround2it.com to vikingbrynn 's Lupus blog - http://www.lupusinterrupted.com
But have I gotten around to doing it? No. The concept is in my head.
Have I gotten around to writing the "I sponsor a charity. do you?" blog post I decided to write at the same time? No.
I saw a post on facebook tonight that got me to thinking.
Procrastination is the sword that kills productivity
Yup. Absolutely. I am wholly familiar with the concept.
I post on vikingbrynn 's blogs almost every time she writes, and we tweet back and forth regularly.
But sometimes I feel as though I shouldn't post about my joint pain or bad days. What is a few hours with pain, when one of your "sisters" is suffering every day, and far worse? Who the heck am I to complain when there are worse things in the world?
A wise old russian man once said to me when I asked him how he was: "No complaints. Nobody listens anyway." He is quite right - nobody wants to hear a LITANY of complaints. I don't complain 24/7 but I certainly have my days.
Here is the difference: When I write my blog, I throw my thoughts out to the world. The purpose, at it's core, is to communicate. To get it out there. To say "here I am. I'm busy, I have feelings*, I'm doing stuff.".
*Note on feelings: I'm very good at concealing my feelings - I think I go vulcan, but when I get in that state for too long I start looking for ways to FEEL, to engage, to BE engaged. I need more time with my gaggle of giggling girlfriends with martinis and cookies. I am finally reaching that point where I can plaster on the faux smile; and that will eventually become reality - social and professional engagement. I always have such a hard time choosing from the Mood list. Almost every option seems such a reach for me.
I will be brilliantly happy when the AC cools down the house, when my computer is fixed, and when I can find the type of business income that doesn't require me to work by the hour. I have skillz dude. I do.
When vikingbrynn writes Lupusinterrupted, it is to EDUCATE - friends, family, tweeps, about her chronic illness, to say "I am broken, don't try to fix me. Learn more about it. This is my life, every. single. day." I envy her writing style. So amusing, engaging; her sense of humour is phenomenal. Go read her blog. Learn something new.
By the way, I go through these phases every so often. I am aware of the pattern. It goes away after a few weeks. What's the pattern you ask? Intense bursts of energy, productivity and socializing which may last for months. Next, the need to slow down. Enter I don't want to. Slow down some more. Comparison shopping. I like what you have and wish I had it. Slow down more. Monotone. Feeling of blah, and more I don't want to. And more - not comparison, per-say... I don't "crave" attention (99% of the time), but I also get into the mode of "I wish I could communicate my state of mind better."
How to get better at writing? Write more.
Note to vikingbrynn - I'm not in that state of mind that you loath so much - the one that says a person is comparing their life to yours. There is no comparison. I make the choice not to post about my few miserable days because there is always someone out there who is far worse off than I, and I don't like posting large volumes of negativity in people's newsfeeds. Do I even have that much? Can't say that I do.
Anyway, it's a state of mind, and it will pass soon.
The social media mastery course I attended last Tuesday taught a wealth of information I have yet to return to. On top of that, it inspired me to post my company's cause on my website http://www.getround2it.com to vikingbrynn 's Lupus blog - http://www.lupusinterrupted.com
But have I gotten around to doing it? No. The concept is in my head.
Have I gotten around to writing the "I sponsor a charity. do you?" blog post I decided to write at the same time? No.
I saw a post on facebook tonight that got me to thinking.
Procrastination is the sword that kills productivity
Yup. Absolutely. I am wholly familiar with the concept.
I post on vikingbrynn 's blogs almost every time she writes, and we tweet back and forth regularly.
But sometimes I feel as though I shouldn't post about my joint pain or bad days. What is a few hours with pain, when one of your "sisters" is suffering every day, and far worse? Who the heck am I to complain when there are worse things in the world?
A wise old russian man once said to me when I asked him how he was: "No complaints. Nobody listens anyway." He is quite right - nobody wants to hear a LITANY of complaints. I don't complain 24/7 but I certainly have my days.
Here is the difference: When I write my blog, I throw my thoughts out to the world. The purpose, at it's core, is to communicate. To get it out there. To say "here I am. I'm busy, I have feelings*, I'm doing stuff.".
*Note on feelings: I'm very good at concealing my feelings - I think I go vulcan, but when I get in that state for too long I start looking for ways to FEEL, to engage, to BE engaged. I need more time with my gaggle of giggling girlfriends with martinis and cookies. I am finally reaching that point where I can plaster on the faux smile; and that will eventually become reality - social and professional engagement. I always have such a hard time choosing from the Mood list. Almost every option seems such a reach for me.
I will be brilliantly happy when the AC cools down the house, when my computer is fixed, and when I can find the type of business income that doesn't require me to work by the hour. I have skillz dude. I do.
When vikingbrynn writes Lupusinterrupted, it is to EDUCATE - friends, family, tweeps, about her chronic illness, to say "I am broken, don't try to fix me. Learn more about it. This is my life, every. single. day." I envy her writing style. So amusing, engaging; her sense of humour is phenomenal. Go read her blog. Learn something new.
By the way, I go through these phases every so often. I am aware of the pattern. It goes away after a few weeks. What's the pattern you ask? Intense bursts of energy, productivity and socializing which may last for months. Next, the need to slow down. Enter I don't want to. Slow down some more. Comparison shopping. I like what you have and wish I had it. Slow down more. Monotone. Feeling of blah, and more I don't want to. And more - not comparison, per-say... I don't "crave" attention (99% of the time), but I also get into the mode of "I wish I could communicate my state of mind better."
How to get better at writing? Write more.
Note to vikingbrynn - I'm not in that state of mind that you loath so much - the one that says a person is comparing their life to yours. There is no comparison. I make the choice not to post about my few miserable days because there is always someone out there who is far worse off than I, and I don't like posting large volumes of negativity in people's newsfeeds. Do I even have that much? Can't say that I do.
Anyway, it's a state of mind, and it will pass soon.