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  #1 Jared Hatcher on 12 May 12

   

  Daring Adventure by Tim BrownsonFor the second half of my sales career and well before I became a Lifetime Coach, I worked exclusively in the team environment. On moving to your US in February of 2006 we were pitched in to a completely alien environment. We had no friends here, no support network and I saw it no business. Fortunately for the both of us, my niece was working in some sort of hospital and soon began to make friends and we developed a social network over time.
  
  Prior to that, I would toil away with the pool, in my office day after day trying to build a business from the ground up. It was really tough and many the time very alone.
  
  Telemarketers might avoid calling me for fear that I'd for no reason let them leave, Jehovah's Witness's would stay away from my house through not enough time and the dog would insist she didn't need to hear the story about the time I won salesman with the month yet again.
  
  During those first couple of months I contracted several small infections. Nothing too substantial, just coughs and colds, but the funny thing is, just before moving to the US I had gone almost 5 a long time without getting anything. Is that any type of proof? No of course not, it's purely anecdotal evidence, but it's interesting nevertheless.
  
  My contact with people daily is still low as compared to somebody that works within a office environment. I don't overcome more then three Life Coaching clients daily and even then it's primarily a business relationship. Having said that, I'm very fortunate in so much as I only seem to attract people I like working with and that definitely helps remove any feeling involving isolation.
  
  Just over recently I found Twitter. Since then I have formed a great deal of what I consider actual friendships. Some are those that I would happily down tools for and meet up for a beer once they came to town, and I have spoken to a good number over the phone.
  
  About once each and every month I clear out those that I never talk to or never talk to me. That way Personally i think like I am getting together with friends, not just people trying to sell me something. Yeh they may be trying to sell everyone something too, but that's ok because they're buddies.
  
  On days like today when i am 'supposed' to be writing for the vast majority of day, Twitter allows me an outlet to 'talk' to people. I don't even want to be into conversations as these to feel better. Just to be able to post random garbage and knowing somebody is reading it is often enough.
  
  I believe that Social Networking either online or physically is neither healthy not unhealthy in and involving itself, I think it's the individuals approach that establishes that its effectiveness.
  
  If you are on Twitter all day purely to obtain as many followers as your ego can stand and throw spammy backlinks at people, then I don't see how that can be anything other than stressful and damaging for a health and sanity.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.daringadventure.com/any-other-business/33-reasons-your-a-bit-weird-and-i-am-too">Daring Adventure by Tim Brownson</a>For the second half of my sales career and well before I became a Lifetime Coach, I worked exclusively in the team environment. On moving to your US in February of 2006 we were pitched in to a completely alien environment. We had no friends here, no support network and I saw it no business. Fortunately for the both of us, my niece was working in some sort of hospital and soon began to make friends and we developed a social network over time. <br /> <br /> Prior to that, I would toil away with the pool, in my office day after day trying to build a business from the ground up. It was really tough and many the time very alone. <br /> <br /> Telemarketers might avoid calling me for fear that I'd for no reason let them leave, Jehovah's Witness's would stay away from my house through not enough time and the dog would insist she didn't need to hear the story about the time I won salesman with the month yet again. <br /> <br /> During those first couple of months I contracted several small infections. Nothing too substantial, just coughs and colds, but the funny thing is, just before moving to the US I had gone almost 5 a long time without getting anything. Is that any type of proof? No of course not, it's purely anecdotal evidence, but it's interesting nevertheless. <br /> <br /> My contact with people daily is still low as compared to somebody that works within a office environment. I don't overcome more then three Life Coaching clients daily and even then it's primarily a business relationship. Having said that, I'm very fortunate in so much as I only seem to attract people I like working with and that definitely helps remove any feeling involving isolation. <br /> <br /> Just over recently I found Twitter. Since then I have formed a great deal of what I consider actual friendships. Some are those that I would happily down tools for and meet up for a beer once they came to town, and I have spoken to a good number over the phone. <br /> <br /> About once each and every month I clear out those that I never talk to or never talk to me. That way Personally i think like I am getting together with friends, not just people trying to sell me something. Yeh they may be trying to sell everyone something too, but that's ok because they're buddies. <br /> <br /> On days like today when i am 'supposed' to be writing for the vast majority of day, Twitter allows me an outlet to 'talk' to people. I don't even want to be into conversations as these to feel better. Just to be able to post random garbage and knowing somebody is reading it is often enough. <br /> <br /> I believe that Social Networking either online or physically is neither healthy not unhealthy in and involving itself, I think it's the individuals approach that establishes that its effectiveness. <br /> <br /> If you are on Twitter all day purely to obtain as many followers as your ego can stand and throw spammy backlinks at people, then I don't see how that can be anything other than stressful and damaging for a health and sanity.</div>

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