Getting Off…line « THE DREAM IN ACTION

December 21, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Getting Off…line

The next few months are going to be crazy. I just moved out of my apartment, then I’m heading to San Diego for Christmas on Wednesday morning. I’ll be out in SD until January 6th spending time w/ family, meeting my San Diego based Twitter “friends” and hopefully getting some sweet stuff for Christmas. Then in January I’ll be living with some family friends in the Milwaukee burbs so I can avoid paying rent for the month I’ll be in China; I’m headed to Shanghai in February. After I get back from China I’ll be back here in downtown Milwaukee.

Because of this, I’ve spent the last 3 days moving out of my apartment. I’ve been largely offline with minimum interneting (as my gf would say) and it’s been kind of nice. Pretty much all of my work involves being online and starring at a screen and I think sometimes its good to close the laptop and get out and work…you know manual labor. I’ve spend much of my time last few days out working in the snow and something about working in the cold really makes me feel like a man. Can anyone relate?

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Scott

Yea, man. I'm in the same boat. Just started running hills again. It feels great to get out of the "social media" bubble for a while and enjoy real life. I think balance is critical

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Ryan Graves

One thing I wanted to add to the post but I'll just do it hear in the
comments...(hopefully more people will contribute to this thought)

I think that spending some time offline and out of the social media "bubble"
as you called it will not only lead to a bit more balance in your life but I
also thing that it will cause you to be more inspired. Often times the idea
train can slow down because all you see, hear, think is web web web. When
you take sometime interact offline and take in the world you begin to think
about new ideas about how the web not can improve "real world" and not only
just be the web.

I hope I'm explaining that idea clearly. Basically, get inspired offline in
order to improve online.

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Getting Off…line