Barcamp Senza Confini

I went to the barcamp in Klagenfurt with Werner yesterday. We had to leave early because yesterday was Faschingssamstag and, you surely understand, you can’t miss the Fasching parade in Villach. I promised myself I’d go back on Sunday.

But I didn’t go back. I couldn’t go back. I just simply didn’t have time to go back, I was busy. I had some serious thinking to do.

My head was reeling from my one and only session on Saturday, Time and Ideas for Blogging (Monika Meuter, soisses and Bindestrich). 

Monika slapped me around and battered my head. She was ruthless and unrelenting. She told me terrible things and was adamant that I listen. She out and out told me some truths (don’t you sometimes just hate that?).

She told me that blogging had to do with establishing rituals and routines. She said she had noticed that I seriously lack both. (But she did not mention my lack of self-discipline, for which I was grateful).

She urged me to turn over a new leaf and become the blogger I was, perhaps, meant to be.

Hmmm. Let me put this together a bit in my own head.
Routines have to do with rituals, rituals have to do with self discipline (I got that), self discipline has to do with planning, planning has to do with organization (there’s a tough one), organization has to do with less work (I’m beginning to like this), less work has to do with effectiveness, effectiveness has to do with success, success has to do with lots of money, lots of money has to do with more leisure time (there just might be something to this), more leisure time has to do with, well uhhh, me.

Okay, okay, okay.
Monika, you win. I’ll do it. I’ll change my slovenly ways. I’ll pull myself together. I’ll get, and stay, organized, routined and ritualized.

My blog shall reflect these personal changes.

1) Every Sunday I will post about current affairs, off-topic items that catch my attention, bring video clips, poke fun at politicians, go on and on about my marvelous horses, or something completely different.

2) Every Wednesday I will post about communication and language.

3) Every Friday I will post about jobs, head hunting and things of that nature.

I am going public with this moment of personal growth, so be supportive here. I am putting myself under immense peer pressure to stick to my new and modified blogging behaviour (and that while living out of boxes, eating corn flakes out of kitty-dishes - figuratively speaking, of course).

Watch me, help me, keep me in line. If I start becoming lax and far too casual then please yell at me (or post appropriate comments) and get me back on track.

I can do it, I know I can.

Here, in case you’d like to read about it, are some posts about some of the other sessions, and here, here, here, here …

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