edging towards burnout?
Perish the thought that crossed my mind this week, as I sat at my office cubicle, with 3 LCD screens before me (2 laptops, 1 with an extra screen for extra desktop space, very nice), and I wondered if I was feeling close to burnout with ramped-up workload between my 2 jobs, which I had been doing mostly well with for the past 3+ years..
but this summer has taken more effort for me to do them, one b/c of event planning that comes around once every 3 years (and I get weighed down by details), the other b/c of my change in role at ForMinistry.com, away from software programming towards customer relations, and my developing processes and beginning to manage workflow and stuff.. I don’t know the terms people use for business operations, so I kinda invent my own terms which may or may not work the most efficiently to communicate the best to those I need to work with.. but it’s a start, and a good start, just that when the thought of me, of all people, feeling a little overload of Internet, I said to myself, oh my, what’s wrong? I love the Internet, how could I ever get too much of it, or get sick of it? No way! I got that Gallup strength theme of INPUT, so doesn’t that mean I never have to fear information overload?!
knowing my own vulnerabilities, I decided to not push myself harder to get more of the challenging tasks done, stayed with easier tasks, tried to pace myself, Googled a bit to begin reading up on burnout, and food and mood, to raise my awareness of how to take care of myself, something I easily neglect..
not all that geeky
but maybe geekier than your average person? I’ve not come across an online quiz to measure my geek factor, but perhaps I am more of one than the average bear. To be an ultimate geek, I’d need to have much more digital hardware and gadgets, but I should count my blessings and do a little inventory, see where I fall on the bell curve.
What I don’t have: no cable tv, no Tivo DVR, no big screen tv, no home stereo/ home theater sound system, no top-line gaming desktop computer, no video game machine (PS2 or Xbox), no garage door opener, many more technological don’t haves.
What I do have: PalmOne Treo 600, Nikon (5mpix) digital camera, iPod (15gb), Emerson 19″ color TV, Emerson combo DVD/VCR player, low-end 2GHz cordless phone, low-end Dell desktop computer w/ 21″ color monitor, WiFi access point/router, DSL hi-speed Internet, personal website, blog. Plus, on “loan”: 2 Dell laptops from work (2 jobs).
So does that make me a big geek? 
amateur networker
I love networking — meeting new people, engaging in dynamic and diverse conversations, making introductions when the opportunity seems probable or even remotely possible.. this entry sparked from recent find of: The 10 Secrets of a Master Networker (Keith Ferrazzi needs two PalmPilots to keep track of all his contacts, people like Bill Clinton and Michael Milken. But there’s far more to cracking the inner circle of the power elite than just taking names) and How to Become a Master Networker (Adopt these 10 traits, and you’ll have people knocking down your door trying to do business with you.) [refers to book titled Masters of Networking]
.. but my achille’s heel is that I don’t monetize it or use it for personal gain (and Keith Ferrazzi would probably cuss at me).. like Ferrazzi, it’s a lifestyle, it’s a habit, it’s part of who I am, tho’ I’ve not worked up the budget to fly first class nor always do power lunches and dinners, and won’t; I’ll have you know, I do dinner with my family 90-95% of the time..
.. and your worst suspicion and mine, these articles confirm, there really is a good-old-boys network.
occasional blogger meetup
hung out with fellow blogger Willzhead this morning at Starbucks, and enjoyed hangin’ out and shared common threads of our life stories, as both of us have meandered around theology, emergent church, technology, non-profit, and for me, potentially entrepreneural ventures [my own next phase of exploration and self-discovery].. he’d become a very active blogger since EC Nashville, and he’s got some good things going.. look forward to the next opp.
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