Do you believe endless networking can be a real path to happiness?
Being tied to your computer 24/7, jumping from site to site, might keep you busy, but is it the smartest way to get the contentment you crave?
Are the results of your efforts - mostly based on furious exchanges of quotes to threads, interspersed with a diet of OMGs or LOLs - from people pretending to be interested that what you say is of any value?
Ever thought you could be end up managing loads of relatively shallow relationships?
Take another look at the whole thing and treat yourself to a little holiday. Forget that lap-top or the monster in the corner, don’t touch a keyboard for the next couple of weeks and ignore your obsessive addiction to emails.
Now form a little group of four or five friends or business associates, people you generally trust 100% - I say four or five, a realistic figure - as opposed to the “thousands friends” collected on sites such as Facebook. Organise a time to sit down to work on each others problems and look at how the group might be able to help each other.
Repeat this brain-storming exercise seven days later.
Who knows, maybe a short, intense session of working on each other’s problems (or fears) might take you just as far, if not further, than having to deal with all the hype and smoke and mirrors that so often surrounds these networking fests.
Believe me I’m not having a pop at all networking per se. But face it, just because something is called ‘networking’ does not automatically mean that it is a good and a worthwhile thing to do.
Remember if the activity is wide and shallow or unfocused, it can gain little traction. In contrast working as a tightly-knit group of friends, the narrow and deep concentration will support and assist you to get more from the session and could even change your whole lifestyle!
