I asked this question on twitter, and mostly the response was that there’s more to the value of blog posts than simply the visible response that they create.  The conversation may continue in people’s minds, offline lives, or simply as neural connections waiting for the final link to be made to spark a great idea.

The reason this thought came up was that I realise I spending a lot of time reading very interesting information on the web, but I’m not convinced that a lot of it is useful to me.  So I wondered if I could create a quick little rule to help me suss out whether it was worth reading a blog post – i.e. is this a topic that I would want to respond to?

The conversation on twitter makes me think that’s not particularly useful, plus the fact that to know whether I want to respond I’d probably have to read it in the first place, but the point remains that I seem to be spectacularly avoiding doing stuff that I think will help (as anyone who is subscribed to my Shiva Nata blog may have noticed *tumbleweed*).

The real answer? I’m thinking it’ll be mindfulness.  Paying attention to where I spend my time – blech!

Still, in terms of lessons to learn when you’ve no time constraints, being able to manage your own time to get what you want done without having a big bad boss to scare you into it is probably a good way to go.  And if the whole ‘go towards your fears’ thing is such a good indicator (and it is, no matter how much we want to deny it) then the blech is probably a good indicator (since this time it came from a place of shuddering and cringing).

Ho hum, best head over to Productive Flourishing then and grab some of Charlie’s awesome free goodies!

Want to see more? Try one of these posts:

• Meditation on time
• Living in the past
• Giving myself permission to be tiny