So I’m on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, You Tube and I have a blog. I use my blog as a journal where I can flesh out thoughts in a more formal fashion and include video. The post tend to be more personal to me and allow me to explore my own beliefs. Facebook is what I consider to be an online yearbook of friends from high school, college and grad school mostly. I post there and my conatcts are updated. LinkedIn is essentially a professional network that also posts my resume. Also, good as a job board. You Tube - Ihave a few of my own videos. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be a heavy maker of my own videos, but I do save alot as my favorites and use the interface to post videos I like to my blog and Facebook.
Now for Twitter, I haven’t quite figured it out. It’s a social and professional network but you have to have a body of work to understand what people are really like and what they are passionate about. Of all social networking sites, I love to Tweet on Twitter. Maybe it’s the ease of short messaging and stream of consciousness fell, but I’ve really taken to it. I can see it’s place to help others understand you and how that may lead to business purposes, but in Austin, it almost seems that who a person is defines your business than in almost any other place theat I have in lived in before.
Did I mention that I love Austin?
You heard me right! My son is applying to private school for first grade and we had to interview today. We also had a to write series of essays as well.
There are no guarantees that he’ll even get in, but the process really does reveal what one thinks is imporant and valuable in one’s life. I actually liked seeing my wife get emotional about our son’s education and his spiritual life. If anything, today’s interview was just an affirmation on our view of what our responsibility is to our children.
I believe that our children are a blessing from God and we have the resposibility to educate them so that they can not only be productive members of our community, but also as Christians we are on a mission to make sure that our children are educated about God and his love and will for them.
I know God has good things in store for our family. All things won’t be easy and there will be challenges, but in the end there is the hope and promise of God and Jesus that his will be done, so consider everything a blessing be it good or bad in our eyes.
Today was a great day for my wife and I! Maybe I am growing and maturing?
So my life at work is decidedly technology oriented with Salesforce.com, WebEx, Twitter, email marketing and sales ops. I have a PDA/Cell Phone, laptop and cling on to my iPod.
Whether I’m in the office or out of the office, people can almost always get a hold of me. I guess that’s the price of success.
So guess what happened this weekend? I forgot my cell phone charger and I locked up my laptop and went to Fredericksburg with my family for a little wine tasting. My PDA/phone was dead and at home, so I had a day of silence.
I have two young kids so my evenings are usually spent tech free but even they know how to use a cell phone and computer. This time it was whole day unplugged and when I got back to the office, it was as if it didn’t really matter if I had checked in.
All the pressure I put on myself to perform seems to be all in my head. It’s easiest to see when I come home and my kids just want me to spend time with them. They don’t care that I’m accessible on the phone or via email. They just want me to be present. I’m not saying that I don’t make myself available for my kids or that I shouldn’t be accountible to the employees of my firm, but letting go is sometimes the best medicine for getting back in the game with the right focus.
This realization didn’t just start with this weekend. Rather, I’ve tried to stop beatting myself up about some of the things I’ve said or the choices I’ve made. Those things are gone and Christ has forgiven me for those things anyway.
So I live for today.
