The Flow Of Modern Life
Todays words from the digital man cave are about a topic that will probably make me sound like an obsessive compulsive, overly technical, monstrously uncool geek. Flowcharts. The glorious glorious world of flowcharts and life.
You’re shaking your head right now aren’t you? It’s okay, I’m used to it. I write for a place called “The Digital Man Cave”. Getting funny looks are sorta the norm.
I’m really not as crazy as I sound. Yes I can be obsessive-compulsive, yes I am a geek, and I have no clue if I’ve ever been a part of “the cool crowd”. But I’m not crazy. I can’t be the only one that flowcharts out the major plot points in their life story. We all do on some level. Do I go left or right? Park here, park there? Do this on the weekend, or do that? If I do this, does it bring me closer to this, or is it only pushing me away from that?
In it’s modern day form we call it mindmapping now. Businesses create these maps to help them organize information, solve problems, see the relationships between things, and make decisions.
You know, it’s a pretty commonly accepted notion that in order to get somewhere you need to know where you’re going. You need to be able to see if you’re making progress on that journey. You need to be able to clearly know when you’re off-course. You need to have a map. If you know me personally you might think that statement is uncharacteristic of me. Funny even. I tend to try not to plan farther than 2 days in advance because I believe a lot can change more than 48hours out. And because I am terrible at keeping a calendar. So talking about maps is actually a foreign concept coming from me. The old me that is. The new me wants to know what the hell he is doing, before it is happening. Something about being proactive instead of reactive…
Life is kind of like a baseball that got hit funny and is going sideways off into the crowd. It’s unpredictable and exciting, and has the potential to be awesome or painful. Now imagine you were at the game of life, trying to catch a potential souvenir baseball but you weren’t ever really paying attention. You had no gameplan or concept of what you were doing. And that baseball was coming right for your head, as many opportunities and experiences in life are. Kinda hard to sieze life by the ball if you never saw it coming, right?
So do you have a map? Have you ever taken time to do a little mindmapping? It could actually be a worthwhile exercise if you’re feeling a little unguided in life (who isn’t at some point?), because it’s not just for businesses you know.
Let me know in the comments and stay connected for more words from the digital man cave!
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this was a very entertaining read. i enjoyed it very much!
Will share with my friends if you dont mind