May

The serenity of SOME and not all……….

Filed Under (nextgenteachers, staff development) by Justin Medved on 14-05-2007

I just finished going through my feeds. I had over 300 unread posts to get to.

Instead of methodically reading each one like I usually do, I skipped around.

I read some and not others.

I looked for ideas to jump out at me and rushed past them of they did not.

I moved quickly, like I do with a newspaper or magazine.
As my “unread feeds” number started to grow smaller, so did the guilt.

You know what I’m talking about!

The RSS guilt.

“When am I going to get to all of this stuff ?”

“There is so much good writing out there! When am I going to read it all?”

I have always known this but tonight it became clear………..you can never get to it all!

Tonight I feel content that I got to SOME.

It’s ok to just get to SOME.

Tonight SOME of it was OK.

Sometimes you just have to set your counters to ZERO.

Try it and let me know how it feels.

Set your counter to Zero

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Alecia Berman-Dry Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
You have tapped into my own subconcious guilt. I feel exactly the same way. And now, funnily, without even knowing you, you’ve given me permission to skip over them. Thanks.
Justin Medved Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I imagine that we are not alone in this

Justin