Shakespeare “coined the phrase “To be or not to be, that is the question”. Baby boomers coined the phrase “To be all you want to be”. Generation Y (sometimes also known as (generation why not) replaced the phrase with “Be whatever you want to be” and add their key phrase “why not” to it. What does this got to do how things are today and how we interact with one another?

In a fast moving world where even disasters (like tsunamis and earthquakes) are quickly forgotten by events of higher social significance (birth of royals), what people deem important or significant changes on a daily basis.

I recently established a presence online. I thought it would help me to be what I want to be. My wife asked me why I want to do that if I am already what I am. I said “Why not?” So even if I am a baby boomer, I express myself as a generation much younger than I am. When I thought about this, it seems that other forces are at play here that sways my thinking. It might have something to do with social media, where a thought is born in a persons mind and expressed into the world a half second earlier. That is if you can type faster than you can think.  I think that is true when I watch my daughter thumbing her smart phone.

In this online world people know you better than you know yourself. I get reminders and advice from the sites I visit and they suggest that I might be interested in books, music and other ideas because of my “search history” Wow! Now this is interesting. How can I use this in my initial online presence to create familiarity? What if you know me, and you like me, will you spend some time with me here and in other places where you find me.  What if I tell you that you can get to know me and that it will be significant for you if you do? 

That thought started this post and I plan to divulge even more as time goes by. Who I am what I do and what that could mean for you. So till next time watch this space and later other spaces as well.

Hermie