There's only one thing needed to make 2012 an even better year than 2011 was. And then I have to admit that I still'm very happy 2011. But a single change in my life will do that I can easily reach the goals I have set for myself.
I'll stop looking for instant confirmation.
It's that simple. Can I only do it so the rest is fixed.
2011 was for me a year of hunting for instant confirmation. Just like 2010 and 2009, but maybe not so much before that. And of course it is the wonderful network that causes it to me online that I love so much. The network, which I love too much. I do not know how many hours I've put in to check Facebook just to see if anyone commented, liked, sent message or vänförfrågat. And on Twitter to check mentions, retweets and direct messages. And checked emails - of all sorts of reasons. And check the statistics for any of my various sites, but most of mattiasbostrom.se and sherlockholmes.se, and strange little extra when I saw that someone Googled my name and found to my sites. And entered the Twingly to search on my name, just in case any blog has mentioned to me, or at Eniro NEWS to do the equivalent thing in the regular press - it could happen to my Google Alert on my name could have missed something. And then I understood just allmängooglat myself and browsed through page after page of links I've seen hundreds of times before.
That last point a little to the problem. Had it been so that it continually popped up new stuff - new messages, new links, new comments - it would perhaps have been seen as a good personal omvärldsbekakning or at least a meaningful social contact. But now it's just a tragic quest for instant confirmation. Sometimes this takes so much time that I did not even have time to create the things that could actually generate real confirmation.
I've had a wonderful 2011th Stand-up career is fine - second place in Bungee Comedy and one-man show last fall was the highlight. It's been a lot of fun around the Sherlock Holmes thanks to the BBC series and Hollywood sequel. Me and my friend Per Olaisen has come out with a book - "Bizarre Books" - which I am extremely proud of.
But still. That's the stuff that of course I want everyone to note. But besides these things have I used the years have always done a lot of stuff that has been directed at almost no or only a few or just myself. Written Sherlock Holmes articles, researching strange obscure subjects - and even read novels. Instead, do I now, minute after minute as a total hour after hour as the battle will be days and weeks to do, well, nothing.
Sure, I will be in contact via social media. Sure, I will respond to comments and emails, but maybe not necessarily in a few minutes. But please, Mattias Boström, stop looking for instant confirmation and bet an awful lot higher than that!
I can start by giving a damn about to check the statistics - every five minutes - to see how many people read this.
Happy new year to you all! There will be a wonderful 2012th
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Hello there! Just wanted to give you some immediate response :) No, joking aside. I think it was strong of you to write this in your blog. I recognize myself in a lot of what you write and I'm sure many many others do too. I have also decided mit the whole, to focus less on what actually does not give me that much and more time on it, just as you write, that creates real results. Cheers to 2012!
:-). Yes, it is clear that one feels in the gene itself. And also I've been thinking about was all the time goes. Will follow your example and stop spending time on a lot of unnecessary things that do not forward. Happy New Year to you!
Really good post!
I think I during work hours will continue to be relatively quick but I will try and private steps down, something I've already started the second half of 2011.
"You have time to check out late" .... it does actually.
Happy end and good news!
You are good Mattias! Really good. And I particularly liked one sentence - which peaked whole argument in my eyes. To wit: "- I'll bet an awful lot higher than that." Do it, Mattias - and trust us with news of you will have an eye, and pay attention when it shows up something new. Be cool boy. :)
You Mattias - it certainly was the best New Year's resolution I have heard of in the modern world ;-) I will immediately take to me and then put my precious time (although I do not have so much to look like you) on something refreshing. Go for a walk, for example - may I come across someone who wants a live chat!
Thanks Eva, Ingrid, Peter, Christina and Madeleine for your comments! Sometimes you think you are alone in the world to feel a certain way. And we are ashamed that you are not smarter than that. That's when it's so nice to blog by him the skämmiga. And to hear that others will recognize themselves. Thank you! Remember, there are at least as strongly to comment and admit that you feel at home.
Today, I have devoted the day to sort things in my office here at home. Picked down old finished book project in boxes and collected and sorted out the things that should be my next project. I have a few times checked emails, twitter, facebook, statistics throughout the day. But I have done it the iPad, and only added about a minute on it every time. Only now I beat the computer. If I had your computer on all day so I would certainly not have done nearly as well here in the workroom. It did look like chaos right now. But it did it before too - it's just another, new chaos now. And this chaos will hopefully be changing every day soon and all the time something happens. Just such a thing as I saved a pile of newspapers in which there have been articles about me - and today I finally browsed through them (back to 2004) and cut out the articles themselves. Now the clippings in a new high and contributes to the chaos.
Please note: there may well be chaos in my office, but I want the chaos to consistently change. This is when the wrong things left lying in the wrong places for ever as they resign themselves, and instead just sits at the computer and check emails, twitter, facebook, statistics. And when you've done that, you do it again. Lap after lap.
I agree, well written. That confirmation is something we all need from time to time in different doses, but I will not hide the fact that I like the instant confirmation, for example in the weblog community. It's nice to have all kinds of feedback and learn something new about himself.