{"id":3454,"date":"2010-03-01T22:12:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2010-03-01T22:12:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:12:24","slug":"another-slice-of-my-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2010\/03\/01\/another-slice-of-my-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Slice of My Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Pie<\/a>
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I feel more joy being less connected.<\/h3>\n

A web presence… me using the Internet to communicate to the globe… sometimes, I wonder what I have gotten myself into. I question if an online life<\/strong> is truly sustainable and if I truly enjoy it. Do I really want to be connected and online, daily, for the long term?<\/p>\n

Being online, on a computer, doesn’t feel nearly as amazing to me as being in nature, or meditating, or writing, or traveling, or trekking does. I love it, but only in moderation. It’s too easy to get lost in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I want to be online only sometimes<\/em>. I don’t want my computer, or my connection to it, to be my life. I am more empowered and centered when I spend my time being connected to my Self, and to nature.<\/p>\n

Yet I’ve chosen a career that revolves around being online…<\/h3>\n

Often I am asked, by people not submerged<\/strong> in the online culture, how I balance working on the web. They mention how addictive<\/strong> being online is… how time seems to disappear… and it’s fair for them to assume that, as I ‘blogger’ and web coach, I must promote a tweeting-emailing-publishing-surfing-updating kinda’ life. A life lived online.<\/p>\n

My computer is my tool, not my life.<\/h3>\n

I don’t promote a life lived online. I use the computer, and what it allows, to create easily and communicate globally<\/strong>. But me, as you see me online, can never completely express my life, nor do I want it to.<\/p>\n

My writing is my life, not my tool.<\/h3>\n

I’ve tried writing to satisfy the belief that regular, scheduled blog postings are my duty, but it doesn’t work for me. Obligating myself into writing has proved rather uninspiring.<\/p>\n

The problem is, this blog is for me to practice my writing<\/strong>, and I work best when I practice because I love to. I write for me. <\/strong>Just as your art is for you. It’s your choice to click and read me, but your reaction, I can’t control and can never know. I can only ever know what my words mean to me. I am write for my happiness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m choosing to believe that my only duty to you is to love what I do<\/strong>, not to publish x<\/em> times a week, on y<\/em> day. I’m choosing to believe that if I<\/em> like my words<\/strong>, You<\/em>‘ll like my words, and, <\/em>for that reason, You<\/em>‘ll return to read them. Call me crazy if you like.<\/p>\n

photo credit: DigiDi<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Pie<\/a>
\n[tweetmeme]<\/p>\n

I feel more joy being less connected.<\/h3>\n

A web presence… me using the Internet to communicate to the globe… sometimes, I wonder what I have gotten myself into. I question if an online life<\/strong> is truly sustainable and if I truly enjoy it. Do I really want to be connected and online, daily, for the long term?<\/p>\n

Being online, on a computer, doesn’t feel nearly as amazing to me as being in nature, or meditating, or writing, or traveling, or trekking does. I love it, but only in moderation. It’s too easy to get lost in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I want to be online only sometimes<\/em>. I don’t want my computer, or my connection to it, to be my life. I am more empowered and centered when I spend my time being connected to my Self, and to nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey-whats-on-my-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}