Collected Twitter Wisdom, June 2009 Edition

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Bruce Keener

One of the things I particularly enjoy about Twitter is that people sometimes tweet some real wisdom.

The tweeted wisdom often is just a quote from a famous person, but some of it is original. Regardless, I have been collecting some of it for a while, and thought I would share the collection with you. I believe you will find some inspiration in the following.

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  • John

    A reflection and a comment.

    - I’ve been on and off with GTD and Covey many many times through out the years. I could never turn it into a habit and kept searching for solutions. About a month ago I had a business trip overseas and when I returned I had horrible jet lag. I took advantage of it to realign my wake up time 2 hours earlier than usual and use the time to do daily and weekly review, and, simply, think and reflect. So far so good. I feel I’m on the top of my responsibilities. That feels really good. And I’m not using exactly GTD nor Covey. I just improvise along. So it seems it doesn’t matter how one approaches time mgmt. The essence is periodic reviews and, as David Allen said, think.

    - I come to my conclusion that inspiration quotes like these don’t help one to improve. They can never sink in. They only work at the intellectual level. The problem is, as readers, we miss the bulk of the experiences the other person accumulated in order to derive/distill their wisdoms. Without the experiences, we don’t have the conviction to keep us going. It seems to me the sad truth is we have to rediscover all these wisdoms all by ourselves…

    • http://www.keenerliving.com/ Bruce Keener

      A couple of profound bits of wisdom from you, John:

      • So it seems it doesn’t matter how one approaches time mgmt. The essence is periodic reviews and, as David Allen said, think.
      • Without the experiences, we don’t have the conviction to keep us going. It seems to me the sad truth is we have to rediscover all these wisdoms all by ourselves…(My paraphrase: we have to learn it the hard way)

      I agree with you completely. Sad as it is, we learn best what we learn the hard way, from our own personal experiences. And, time management is more about staying on top of it (periodic reviews) and THINKING than it is about anything else. I’ve learned both of these facts, as you probably have, the hard way.

      Welcome back, BTW. Overseas travel can be brutally exhausting. Sounds to me like you turned it into a life-reshaper/clarification experience.