I shouldn’t be blogging right now.
For one thing, it’s 11:21pm on Sunday night, and the Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays are in Game 7 of the ALCS.
For another thing, I’m a 1/2 pitcher into a blendie margarita. (Woohoo!) Yum. Life is good.
But I have to come clean, because what’s happening right now — what Allen and I are doing as I type, on our living room couch, next to our dog, in front of the Sox game — is so ridiculous I might pee laughing.
We’re passing my laptop back and forth, tweeting and answering tweets, changing out usernames each time, and laughing all the way. What’s making us snortle?
- Allen just sent a Haiku to Timothy Ferriss (author of The 4-Hour Workweek — a definitive must-read for ANY lifestyle entrepreneur. Don’t walk, RUN to your nearest bookstore and get it!) at Tim’s request.
- We found out our biz coach, Melanie Benson Strick, liked our input on a recent coaching call she invited us to speak on.
- We discovered the mysterious deal w/ “hash tags” in a Twitter post, thanks to Kristine Wirth
- Brian Clark of www.CopyBlogger.com and a fellow www.Junta42.com lister unwittingly encouraged us to mix a new cocktail “afterhours”
- We found a guy who’s embarking on a quest to become the first “Earth Emperor”
- We marveled at the fact that Guy Kawasaki has more than 21,000 followers AND followees
- Allen schooled me on the whole “@ replies” thing, where suddenly you find out a bunch of people have responded to previous tweets, and you had NO idea whatsoever
Now, none of that stuff by itself seems very funny, or serves as a compelling reason to start tweeting yourself. Not only is it slightly imbecilic, but it takes us away from giving our full attention to the game, the present moment, and each other.
However…the simplicity behind Twitter — a “micro-blogging” site that allows you to write as many posts as you want — providing they’re EACH under 140 characters — is downright HOT.
You can pop over and scan and reply to and play with anyone and everyone w/o any real social expectation. You can make connections, and not lose a whole afternoon stressing about how you’re phrasing any part of your communications. You can be a VOYEUR into others’ lives, and indulge in the magic of inexplicable synchronicity. You never know who’s listening, who’s tweeting, who’s up, who’s active, who CARES. All you have to do is…well…WHATEVER YOU WANT. And it’s alllllllllll good.
It’s the best of all worlds — utterly silly, yet secretly POWERFUL, with tons of potential for your life and business. A line here, a comment there, a note, question, response, or insight here, there, and everywhere, and *BOOOYAA* suddenly you’ve made a bunch of really amazing connections, without any of the sweaty, icky effort.
