The Knot

So I started a blog.

March 21, 2009 at 20:41 (coaching) (blogging, change, coaching, facebook, gmail, twitter)

Me and about, well the rest of the world apparently!  I started it last week some time, and I picked the name, and I wrote my about page and I thought I was REALLY happening.  I chose my background, oh how pretty my blog looks!  But when it came time to actually BLOG?  Well, things went down hill.

My biggest problem, (in life and apparently blogging) is I procrastinate, and I waste time trying to make things perfect when it doesn’t really matter.  I started a multitude of blogs in Word, about all different topics, because shouldn’t the first one be the best one?  Ah, no – just get on with it.  So here I go.

I’ve only recently entered the world of “online social media” which appears to be the catchphrase of the minute (and I like it!).  I came here at the advice (persuasion?) of my life coach, let’s call her Coach.  According to Coach, there was this whole world inside the web, with people and writing and information and opinion that I really had no idea about.  I’d heard of blogging, but I was under the impression it was like a travel diary, or a life diary and possibly slightly narcisstic.  And I guess to a point, it is. 

But while blogging can be about just talking about yourself (and let’s be honest, if you read my about page, you know mine will be a lot about myself), I’m amazed to discover that it’s this amazing tool for networking, and creating opportunities and assuring you that you are not the only one in the world who: can’t find a job/is insecure/is looking for something/loves weird things/insert appropriate quality-issue-aim here.

I’m all those things, but the thing that most importantly brings me to this new world, is the fact I’m currently unemployed.  Not important anymore, is how I got into this situation (I’ve dealt with it, I’ve moved on), but what is important is what I do now.  As mentioned in my about page, I’ve done depressed, felt sorry myself and spent COUNTLESS hours on the couch, watching daytime TV and wasting seriously beautiful days, hiding from the world, because I could not believe this was happening to me.  

Now I’m at get on with it mode.  My involvement with coaching has been a HUGE thing in my life right now, and is helping me discover what I want, why I want it and how I’m going to get it.  I’ve set goals, real, exciting, achievable, life changing goals that I am excited to be working on.

While not one of those goals, I’m throwing myself into social media.  I have had Facebook for ages, but I don’t think it serves the same purpose as what I’m doing now.  Facebook is about staying in touch with friends, stalking ex boyfriends…haha me thinks there could be a whole blog post in what Facebook is.

So I’ve joined twitter (twitter.com/boydie18)– shock horror to me, as I didn’t think I needed it in my life.  But Coach assures me that it’s not about friends, it’s not about who you know and what pictures you’ve taken, but it is about connecting with interesting and intellectually stimulating people.

And low and behold, after over ten years, I’ve opened a new email account, putting hotmail on the backburner.  I now welcome gmail to my life (Coach told me about tagging and searchable emails and the fact the blog pages I now follow come up in the account and I was sold!)

Finally, and most exciting to me is the subscriptions I have to a few blogs I have discovered.  I plan on there being many more, and I’m excited about learning more about and from these new people. 

Woah – new person.  But that was the point wasn’t it?