Blog Off, Blog On: How Life Gets Full … Interruptions, Diversions and other seeming Eddies of Life October 9, 2007
Posted by Yvonne in Dynamics of Resistance, beginner blogger.add a comment
After nearly 6 months (yikes!) since I last posted, Mr. Miyagi’s voice, via friend Dave, is now ringing in my ears: “Blog off. Blog on.”
Lots happening, but not why blogging?
Open for Inquiry: Why do I do what I do and don’t do what I don’t do?
Provisional Conclusion: After some weeks of wondering: because I feel like it or don’t. Sadly, nothing else really seems to matter. And yes, there are different conditions in which I feel/don’t feel like doing.
Am now inquiring into:
- The art of practice, discipline, keeping with keeping on even when feeling/emotion/some say otherwise, and at the same time the profound wisdom of following body wisdom and “just doing the next indicated thing,” as Dad would say.
- Intentionally constructing my world for committed action. www.missioncontrol.com has been my starting place.
- How to know when a choice is a diversion. Sometimes I can tell what will occur later as an interruption, a side-trip from what’s the current “mission” of my life. And sometimes I can’t tell before or even as it is happening. Main trouble is that my mind is so supple in shifting viewpoint, it can make anything “fit” … before, during and after! So how am I to “tell” when an inner direction is “wisdom” vs. “wimp out”? Where is the line between “aligned” with my chief concerns of life and “not aligned”?
And a bit of thinking about How Life “Gets” Full:
- I put things in on purpose.
- I let things in sloppily.
- Things put themselves in when I’m looking.
- Things sneak in when I’m not looking.
- Things that are in grow larger in time and space and mass.
- People I care about put things in.
- People I don’t care about put things in.
- The government put things in.
- Some bot gets my email ID and starts replicating mostly irrelevant and uninteresting things to put in.
- Time puts things in.
- I get farther “into” something that is already in and forget to come back out, which has the effect of it overtaking my time and space.
- Things that are in invite and pull other things to come in.
- I have a conversation with a friend, get a new idea or awareness that opens up a whole new and interesting avenue of pursuit. Then I go to Amazon.com or the bookstore and come home with new worlds to explore. Net: Amazon and Google find ways to intice me to put more things in.
- I say “yes” to something.
- I say “no” to something - yes, incredibly this sometimes results in more “things getting in” my life - sheesh!
- My life gets “bigger” - like some kind of expansion of concern, and then a whole new bunch of stuff shows up to include.
- I relax, and notice that there’s more here I didn’t really realize was already in.
- My care puts more things in. If I didn’t care, stuff would just bounce off.
There’s more writing to come, no doubt, and potentially not in the so far future … and some catching up regrading activities of last 6 months as well.
Potential additional future inquiries: Essence and Presence, The Art of Practice
Tossing the Sofa: Productivity for 2006 + 8 months August 11, 2006
Posted by Yvonne in Dynamics of Resistance, Power of Dialogue, beginner blogger.1 comment so far
After reading today’s Best Blog’s Unconventional Blogging Advice and Dorai’s post on subject blogging just now, I don’t feel so bad skipping out for the last two months!
But now I have a problem:
How to “recapture” for publication the thoughts and happenings that have enlivened my life during time which has passed?
I have snippets I’d caught and trapped now and then along the way, but the development of those ideas can now happen only minus the authentic verve and clarity of the moment of their birth. Mostly because I’m not the same person who had those ideas back then.
Back from Travel: Where’s the Wondering While I Wander? August 11, 2006
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I haven’t written for awhile — been out and about with more travel in the last few months than before.
And I still hadn’t handled the blogging on the road problem.
I can see that it’s a style issue, as well as a time and technology issue. Seems I do my best when I have a bit of intellectual space and time to wonder sufficiently - which if I try to do that as I wander, requires techno (or some skill) I’m simply not equipped with at this point.
Maybe a voice activated something, with nautral language audio input, plus a 3-D holographically displayed, visually edittable, low-power edit/publish application would do it. Something that allows me to drop a bit and then later push it around some, see how it pushes up against other thots - seems my thots are always itching to get close to one another or another’s thoughts. For me, that’s how the best new ones are birthed born.
Oh, and light-weight. Earlier this week, when considering my oversized luggage, the porter said, “Ah 35 lbs … plus what? 7 pairs of shoes?” When I confessed it was the motorcycle jacket (from Ventura Leather, the best!) and boots destined for a two-wheel moonlight romp, he appreciated the predicament and let me slide without paying extra, so I decided to keep quiet about the other 5 pairs. How do those guys know these things?
Now I’m home - for awhile. So will attempt to clear out some of the draft topics that have percolated in the last months. I promise to be a better blogger and not take the entire summer off!
Potential Future Topic: Thought Porn: the mechanics of invention of new thinking
On What a Life is For and Finding My Voice March 6, 2006
Posted by Yvonne in Distinctions, Dynamics of Resistance, Word in Action, beginner blogger.2 comments
In my first Master’s level course, it was “Management 101″, the professor opened the evening asking us to provide some basic background info on ourselves, including the answer to: “What is your most important value?” He used to ask: “Who are you?” but it didn’t net much useful response because people were simply too young to answer.
When my sister was about 15, she worried: “I just don’t know what I want to be when I grow up!” So I gave her the professor’s take on it:
“Don’t worry; you’re not anybody yet.”
Being “in the make” is a tough spot when all that’s around you is pulling for a two-dimensional answer (What? No business card?) to a clearly multi-dimensional question. It’s probably best to put off the answer for as long as you can. (more…)
Location, Location, Location: Blogging in Place February 23, 2006
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I’m having a problem. I want to blog. I can think of a million things to write about. I have ideas. I have brilliant notions. I want to share and connect and see what others are writing.
And I’m not at the computer.
I’m on my way to the shower because my schedule says I’m due somewhere in a few hours. I’ve got emails to respond to. I’m on the BART train. I’m walking in downtown SF. I’m doing the laundry or headed to Starbucks. I’m parking. I’ve got my hands full, and the handbag slung over my shoulder is stuffed with stuff to deal with on the way to and from wherever my Almighty Agenda tells me I will be today.
Now I wish I had a Blackberry - but that would take two hands. I suppose I could voice mail it somewhere. Or maybe I need a voice activated techno-something or other. (more…)
Get Naked, Get Free: Blogging Toward Better Business February 21, 2006
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I started reading Naked Conversations last Saturday after the TechCrunch5 event. I’d only met co-author Scoble less than 2 months ago and have been blogging unsteadily since then.
But I’m already recommending the book to CEOs and business owners I know because it does such a good job of clearly relating the possibility of blogging and the benefits of the porous membrane for businesses of all kinds. And I’m only half way through it.
But mostly I’m just relieved, really, to be reading writing that’s so fresh, straight, relevant and common sense.
These guys are real people, just sharing about what works: being in communication with people. And that includes dealing with all the squishiness of being human, working with humans, being in unpredictable and uncontrollable business environments, and being unpredictable and uncontrollable humans themselves. They present a refreshingly real conversation and invite everyone to jump in. And that’s completely doable. (more…)
2/17 TechCrunch 5: Naked Conversations and the Impact of a Life February 20, 2006
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Once a Geek … : It’s been so, so long since I was at a real geek party; last Saturday’s TechCrunch was definitely it. Took me back … damn, I love those brilliant, edgy propeller heads! But I’m sooo out of circulation!!
My date was Doug Engelbart and NextNow’s Bill Daul played chauffeur. We met up with other NextNowers Betsy Burroughs and Jeff Saperstein who brought along Dr. Frederic Jallat from the European School of Management. Other than these, of the 400 or so guests, I’d previously met only Scoble the elder and the younger, and so had the pleasure of meeting Shel Israel and Scoble the grand elder that night. Sweet. (more…)
