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A Gem from Seth

I was just thinking, I wonder if it ever gets tiring to be Seth Godin, with everyone hanging on your every word and pretty much thinking that everything that comes out of your mouth is gold? Not that it’s always like that, but the guy does have a lot of thought-provoking things to say. I’ve yet to run into someone who thinks he’s full of crap. But does that get old?

Just thinking out loud.

And now that we’re talking about Mr. Godin, he had an interesting post today that flows along thoughts I’ve been having for some time (probably inspired by him):

When does your mind lose the ability to keep up? Then what happens? Is it already happening?

from Redoubling to system failure, by Seth Godin

Well for me, yeah. It’s completely happening. Not just online – my entire life is too much sometimes – but mostly online. Those people who can put out a blog post and sync its release on Facebook and Twitter using Hootsuite and keep up with every comment and be educated and have time for more research…I want to be like those people, but there’s just no way. Those people honestly have made blogging their life – that is their job, and so that makes sense.

Me, I’m a woman with a full time (plus some) job and two kids and a husband and a house and a cat even, and the fact that I can even half-ass manage those things and keep up some semblance of a blog and a Twitter and follow a few friends on Facebook – heck, I think that’s pretty amazing. But toss in that I also like to watch TV online, and sew a bit, and want to redo my kids’ bedrooms this summer, and maybe even lose some weight in all that…

You can see where it may be a bit overwhelming.

A person has to find their limit of things to focus on, and make those things the best. My things have to be Family, Work, and then Everything Else. It’s probably like that for a lot of people. So for all those Mother/Wife/Homemaker types that don’t make blogging a full time sport, how do we keep all the other clutter from taking over?

A girl has to give up something. Twitter, Facebook, Blog, Squidoo, RSS feeds, News, Television, Movies – it’s very hard to draw the line. I love all of them, but they can’t all have a place.

I think I have some thinking to do. :)

A Gem from Seth was published on May 31st, 2010, with the tags , , , under the Personal Enrichment, Planning category. There are currently 2 comments on this article so far.

Decision Maker, Extraordinaire

Make a decision, by Seth Godin. Go read it, I’ll wait (if you haven’t read it already).

Perhaps to most people it doesn’t need to be said, but more than just “make a decision” is then “follow through on that decision”. I could make decisions left and right, and sometimes it feels like I do. But I don’t always actually do what I decided.

The battle is actually to follow through. That is what’s risky and painful. Why risk failure? Why expend the effort?

Well, Seth said it well.

It’s a rare and valuable skill.

Making decisions (and following through) will get you places. It will make you somebody. It could get you things, if your decisions are good ones. That’s what I hear Seth implying with that statement.

What do you hear? And what will you decide?

Decision Maker, Extraordinaire was published on October 14th, 2009, with the tags , , under the Article Response, Completely Off Topic category. There are currently no comments on this article so far.