It has been weeks since I posted an entry to my blog. I'm a bad bad blogger. I haven't even done a lot of reading and commenting. I'm a bad bad commenter.
After becoming a member of Active Rain earlier this year, I left it alone and kind of forgot about it. How I got turned onto it again is a quandry...did I get a newsletter in my email? did I talk to another member at a Realtor function who reminded me of all I was missing? was I bored one day and in surfing the web, stumble upon it again? Who knows?
Whatever brought me back to the rain, I came back with a vengeance!
For months I was on almost every single day. I was commenting a lot, even getting my toes wet with blogging of my own. I was meeting wonderful, funny, smart, sarcastic, sometimes bizarre people from all over the country and learning so much about the business of being a working Realtor, and also learning so much about topics I was really unfamiliar with. Within weeks, I felt like I had become a much better professional...from just what I learned here in the Rain.
But then something happened.
I don't know what it was. All the sudden, I didn't seem to have the energy to peruse all the great posts; didn't have the brain power to delve into posts discussing even more stuff I don't know much about. Worse yet, I felt extreme guilt about not playing in the Rain more often.
It was all just too much: SEO is important, so I joined twitter, linkedin, facebook, etc. Then I had to figure out how to add the widgets to my page here. If I add them here, I should add them to my website too. Then if I can manage to do that, I actually should use them, shouldn't I? And if I'm going that far, I really should see what else is out there in internet-world that I should be a part of. AFTER ALL, I NEED TO HAVE MY NAME EVERYWHERE OR GOOGLE WON'T FIND ME!!! Even though I'm diabetic, google-juice is something I must partake of to be successful. (someone, I'm sure, will tell me where to get the low sugar version of the G-Juice)
To say that sometime in early November, I achieved "INFORMATION OVERLOAD" would be an understatement. Its all very exciting, but this 45 year old brain is having a hard time processing. I managed to get the hang of Postlets, can even insert them here in my blog. But then what do I do? How many tags to put on an individual post? If I put it on Localism, can I put it in other places too? If I write a blog that is nothing but a rant I need to let loose because some crazy thing has happened with one of my transactions, do I tag the post Members Only? I have a very nice "my live signature" on my home page, but can't figure out how to make it appear at the end of my comments...
Don't even get me started on Twitter. I think I might like it better if I had a phone that had a real keyboard...I'm an abominable texter, so maybe I should get a new cell phone. Crap! Then I'll have to figure out how to work another piece of gadgetry...and really, do I want to spend my precious little downtime constantly twittering? I don't know. It looks like fun, and I do love to talk, but when is enough, enough?
When I saw the picture at the top of this post, I thought, oh my, she is me. A mountain of information within her fingertips, but where to start??? So in a sense, I've done what I think that woman is about to do. Slide carefully out from under her desk and run screaming to the nearest day spa. Take a walk in the park without a cell phone in my pocket. Watch uninterrupted reruns of Law & Order for hours at a time...its comforting...you know how it ends, you don't really have to pay attention to it.
I feel like I'm ready to slowly wade back into the water here in Active Rain. Some kind of realistic scheduling of time to be here and learn what I can. That's my current plan anyway...
I know I've rambled on quite a long while here, and I haven't even gotten to talk about all the other stuff that takes up my brain space: family, friends, church, my new granddaughter, the fact that I'm going to be president of our Home Owners Association in 2009, buyers, sellers, coworkers, etc...too much!
The struggle to balance one's life is never easy. I know I'm not the only member here who has experienced this...so a little guidance please?
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