OK, so time is accelerating. I get that. But October 10th already...? Seriously!
I have always been pretty sure that the saying "Time is a constant" is a total lie. Time speeds up and slows down in my world, and recently I have been feeling it whoooosh by my face.
This BGI Social Web course is putting right into my face something I need to be in tune with and I have resisted -- not sure why -- but I just have:
I am perpetually behind. There is no cure.
Not so bad really, now that I am facing it head on.
So .... now that I am done with the delusion of ever "Catching up", how will I create a life for myself that involves balance (OK, so I'll start with less IMbalance as a reasonable starting place) while also embracing information as the golden key?
Everything I do career-wise in the innovation arena is based on my ability to collect and correlate and synthesize bits and pieces of information in a way that other's don't. And I do.
I read thousands of words per day, look at hundreds to thousands of images/objects/ideas per day, and I work full time while going to school full time. I also do a lot of other stuff besides those 2 Big Things. It is an insane (but temporary assuming I can graduate in June 2010) lifestyle, basically.
So far so good, but I am ready for a new level of this "information game" and I simply don't know how to play that next level......yet. I guess that's why they call it a class.
I am learning how much I do not know.
Letting go of whatever I thought it would be (meaning somehow "I will get on top of all of this soon") is a great start. I am there. There is no "on top of it" -- it's impossible. No battle; only surrender!
A few years go my Executive Coach directed me to this book when I brought up this idea of time acceleration: The Mayan Code. Time IS SPEEDING UP and I am NOT the only one feeling it. Who knew?! http://www.amazon.com/Mayan-Code-Acceleration-Awakening-World/dp/1591430704
The good news here is that the speeding up thing is connected to the collective consciousness thing, which is all good. I'd rather be Awake and wondering how the hell I will keep up than be Asleep at the wheel wondering where my life went.
I spent some time today -- time I most CERTAINLY did not have -- on a sailboat. I needed it. My eyeballs and brain really could not take in even one more pixel off a computer screen. Saturated.
Sailing is remarkably head-clearing, paradoxically especially if you are on a race crew. Should be LESS relaxing than cruising but somehow it's MORE relaxing because racing requires a greater degree of focus than cruising, at least for me.
Even in a lousy no-wind race like today, there is no time to think, and so thinking bubbles up on its own, sometimes then, but reliably always later on after a race. At night; in my dreams that night; the next morning when I open my eyes.
I looked at the 947 unread items in my Google Reader list (I'm not even kind of switched over to it yet) and panicked. Then I just started reading some of them. NOT very systematically. I learned a lot in just 30 minutes. I was not sad that I did not manage to get to the other 920-something unread items, because it's just impossible.
Tomorrow I will try the overdue experiment of scan for 15 minutes and then read for 45 minutes. I will feed this weeks unread class articles into Google Reader ......and then read them!
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Carol-
ReplyDeleteCan I offer you a moment of satisfaction? Go to your Google Reader, click on all items on the left. Then go to the top bar and click and hold the down arrow on "mark as read" slide down to the appropriate time period, I would start with a "older than a week". Click, breath deep and hit the OK. That number, the big haunting 947, just got a bit closer to manageable. Think of how one can never keep up with these, when you go away on vacation the number will keep growing. You are not deleting them, just turning the neon sign down a little. Plus one of the great reasons to have "friends" in Google Reader is so when you are out sailing we (the aggregate) can star and share only the best with you.
Tomas - thank you, my Prince! Done!
ReplyDelete728 is indeed less horrifying than 947, and your advice via Skype today was incredibly helpful. Thank you for taking the time out to be available.
Consider also sailing TOGETHER sometime, which is of course not as exciting or cutting edge as "virtual sailing" or blogging or tweeting about it, but occasionally the old fashioned low tech mode of being somewhere in person with the actual other person just has to be good enough.