Contrary to popular belief, no one cares what you’re doing. Ok that’s a bit harsh but seriously, stop Tweeting about yourself. The secret to Twitter is no secret at all, talk to others, that’s it.
Talk to someone, reply, retweet, engage, ask someone a question, disagree with someone, do something! Just don’t keep Tweeting about what you are doing and start showing interest in what everyone else is doing.
I was at a retreat the year I became president of the Business Students Society at the University of Regina. It was in a remote campground/hotel in the mountains just passed Rocky Mountain house.
The guest speaker was Irfhan Rawji. He was a professor at UBC, had a Harvard MBA, and he liked to party. Needless to say, we got along quite well.
In my Grade 11 Biology class we were given this list of the Animal Kingdom Phylums and were expected to memorize the entire list for a test (writing out the entire list) the following week.
Reason #42 of why I love Twitter: people want to help.
A friend BBM’d me asking who I would recommend as a Dentist in Regina. My Dentist is alright but I was curious about what people on Twitter would say. Here is my original Tweet:
Then came the response.
It’s very simple you see.
All you have to do is put a lot of effort into making someone else’s day. Really think about it, someone you know or a complete stranger. I guarantee if you put a lot of effort into it, and actually make someone else’s life better, you yourself will have the best day ever.
Now what if you did that every day?
This is a story I found in the book Practically Radical, another reason you should practically go buy it. Seriously, it’s a game changer. This story had me tearing up. Read on, you’ll see why.
At the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Chicago kids come to get some of the best treatment for Cancer in the World. A new building was going up, the Yawkey Center for Cancer Care and construction workers on the project had to walk past the Dan-Farber Institute every day.
The Boston Globe Reported: “It has become a beloved ritual at Dana-Farber, every day, children who come to the clinic write their names on sheets of paper and tape them to the windows of the walkway for ironworkers to see. And, every day the ironworkers paint the names onto I-beams and hoist them into place as they add floors to the new 14-story Yawkey Center for Cancer Care.
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