the time is right?
Are you an early adopter or a late adopter? Are you the first on your block to do something or the first anywhere? Or is your timing just spot on?
I don't suppose I'd ever thought about it. I started to use Google because it seemed easier to use than yahoo or the other searches around. I didn't consider whether I was setting or following a trend. I know I was using it before lots of others. But who knows how many were there before me? I know that the term googling hadn't really taken off.
The other day I joined facebook. Again, I wasn't bothered about trends. I signed up because a friend of mine wrote to me and invited me to join in. This friend then commented that I seemed to have been on for 5 minutes and had more friends than she'd had in 2 months. Well, the reason was very simple - I hadn't realised that facebook would pillage my email address book and look to see how many it could find already signed up. (The answer was between 20 and 30!) And when I looked to see who was there, the list was pretty varied. Sure, there were one or two I would regard as early adopters; one had fully got the hang of blogs and stuff long before I even bothered to look at them.
But then I step back and think - does this matter? In a sense it does. There's a saying in or around NLP that suggests we do things when the time is right for us. The suggestion is that there's some sort of force that just knows when that time is. I just wish it would let on sometimes - just what the grand plan might be!
Is there such a force? I don't know. Would I trust it if there were? Probably not at first. Would it serve me well? Maybe.
I just know that there are times when it just feels right to do something. I can't explain it. And then, a little while later, a light comes on and says "this is why you're doing it".
Usually.
I don't suppose I'd ever thought about it. I started to use Google because it seemed easier to use than yahoo or the other searches around. I didn't consider whether I was setting or following a trend. I know I was using it before lots of others. But who knows how many were there before me? I know that the term googling hadn't really taken off.
The other day I joined facebook. Again, I wasn't bothered about trends. I signed up because a friend of mine wrote to me and invited me to join in. This friend then commented that I seemed to have been on for 5 minutes and had more friends than she'd had in 2 months. Well, the reason was very simple - I hadn't realised that facebook would pillage my email address book and look to see how many it could find already signed up. (The answer was between 20 and 30!) And when I looked to see who was there, the list was pretty varied. Sure, there were one or two I would regard as early adopters; one had fully got the hang of blogs and stuff long before I even bothered to look at them.
But then I step back and think - does this matter? In a sense it does. There's a saying in or around NLP that suggests we do things when the time is right for us. The suggestion is that there's some sort of force that just knows when that time is. I just wish it would let on sometimes - just what the grand plan might be!
Is there such a force? I don't know. Would I trust it if there were? Probably not at first. Would it serve me well? Maybe.
I just know that there are times when it just feels right to do something. I can't explain it. And then, a little while later, a light comes on and says "this is why you're doing it".
Usually.
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