Every year many people perform the loose ritual of making promises to themselves to improve something or another in their life. Many say they will strive to be healthier. Others set more ethereal goals such as “I will live life with no limits in 2012.”
In the past, I’ve always addressed the concept with a whatever-floats-your-boat mentality. In other words, I took a cynical approach to it all believing that most people will not be inspired or disciplined enough to complete their mission and fulfill their goals. It’s negative, I know, but I’ve been a poor study on human nature the last few years with the internet being at the center of our laziness.
Then, I saw this video a few months back and thought that it would be perfect for New Years. Sometimes, the best resolutions are born from a seed planted by a concept. No, I’m not talking about Inception here – nobody’s going dream surfing today. What I mean is this (and here’s where it applies to social media): we spend so much of our time online and with the general abandonment of direct interpersonal interactions with other people, there are many (myself included) who often react to people on the other side of the computer screen differently than I would if I were talking to them face-to-face.
Before you set forth on your New Year’s Resolution, watch this video. Even if it has a minor impact, a small seed planted in the back of your brain reminding you every now and then when you’re ready to breath virtual fire on people through the keyboard, then it will be worth the few minutes it takes to watch.
About JD Rucker
Just stumble upon your video, “A Real Person, a Lot Like You” . I enjoyed it and it shows each and everyone of us how our actions affect others. At ALL times we need to be mindfully to be gentle to our fellow human being. We all need to practice the Golden Rule. Thanks!
May you have a wonderful New Year!!
Best Regards,
Mar
Today has been a weird day for me because I just recently started a personal blog to write about anything that interests me. I’ve been in the internet marketing arena for sometime now and had niche websites, know my seo, link building, social media, etc. What’s been missing though is HUMAN INTERACTION. I just did all the behind the scenes work and thought people would come because Google would reward me with high rankings. Not so much. Then I had a friend send me a presentation from Gary Vaynerchuk. Check him out if you don’t know him. All about human interaction online, and social media; then I find this. Now with this new blog I said to hell with all that SEO stuff and just reached out to people like you that I found, and the response has been so much greater than ever. People need to start building true relationships, not just focus on making money online and all the techie stuff.
nice video buddy i liked it
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That is definitely going to change my resolutions.
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