by Stuart
13. April 2011 13:35
When you spend a couple of hours a day on a bike then you get a lot of time to think – which is great. I think too much and then rant to my friends, family and colleagues.
Yet I don’t tweet much and keep my blogs very factual and non-opinionated.
@exiledderryman says it’s because I’m English. Maybe he’s right, but maybe it’s because I find twitter is outside my “circle of influence”.
What am I on about?
Well (let’s hope this isn’t a copyright thing) – Stephen R Covey – the 7 habits guy – has this diagram of circles.
(His is better).
Basically the big circle is all the things your concerned about and the small one all the things you can do something about.
What he says is – concentrate on your circle of influence because time spent outside this is wasted.
Yet twitter and blogging seems to be a lot about circles of concern – people ranting and raving about stuff that is happening to them rather than stuff they are doing to help themselves and others. Facebook for me, on the other hand, is much more about circles of influence – connecting with your friends and family.
But @exiledderryman says I should go twitter more so I’m just going to let it all out for a while and see what happens!
Maybe he hopes I’ll stop ranting at him.
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