30 Days Without Facebook and Twitter: What I Learned ⇾
Jesse Gardner share about his recent 30 day fast of Twitter and Facebook. He includes a lot of the usual thoughts you hear from this sort of experience, but he also includes a few nuggets that caught my attention. Specifically,
Wondering why no one listens to your good ideas? Start making them happen and you’ll have people’s undivided attention.
and
When you find yourself to be busier than you can bear, make a list of all of your responsibilities, organize them by genuine priority and work as hard as you can with the time you have. Then let go of the guilt of not completing the things of lesser importance.
That last one hit home hard for me — 2011 has so far been more work that I’m comfortable with and I struggle with guilt about meeting expectations. And while I know that work is nowhere as important as other areas of my life, translating that into peaceful living is not always easy.
Thanks for the reminder Jesse.
“In my experience, most people don’t schedule their work. They schedule the interruptions that prevent their work from happening.”
What a fantastic site over at everytimezone.com. The purpose: make it easy for people to figure out what time it is somewhere else. With the sliding scale, it’s an excellent approach to a common headache.
It looks like there are still some bugs to work out though — my time should be the same as San Francisco.
[ via Beautiful Pixels ]
