Don’t know. Everyone is different. Balance for one, is imbalance for another. You can find your balance, and what works for you, but know that it won’t work for everyone and it shouldn’t. Find your balance, but don’t force it on others.
Communities are big, they can have many people, and they are the accumulation of tribes. Tribes are cohorts within a community, they are carved out groups with needs, interests, and goals. Communities can have many tribes. Both are great to serve, contribute to, and work for, the key is knowing which one you are there for.
I came in this morning brimming with Creative Flow – ideas for posts were bouncing through my head and how to fix some persistent work problems. I could have started by doing my other work, but the pull was too great and I started writing them all down, getting them all out as fast as you can. I’m lucky because I have a job where I can do that for an hour a day, others…
Just because I saw a cool post on how to make shelters out of logs and deep holes, doesn’t mean I want to do this full-time. It doesn’t mean I want to start eating ration packs, and filtering my own urine. It doesn’t mean I want to live by myself all the time. It just means, I saw a video of a guy building a shelter with his hands, thought it was neat, picked up…
Yeah, yeah, I know – there is always a team that wins. But when you lose… Did you get smarter? Did you get better? Did you get stronger? Did you learn what works and what doesn’t? Did you figure out what you would change for next time? Did you build a team? Did that team survive? You can lose and come out better for it.