Comments on: Reflections on Being Myself http://www.jonathancliff.com/2009/11/reflections-on-being-myself/ Life, Family Ministry, and Life Again Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: gina http://www.jonathancliff.com/2009/11/reflections-on-being-myself/comment-page-1/#comment-772 gina Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:58:09 +0000 http://www.jonathancliff.com/?p=1260#comment-772 This is entirely true. Although I can be transparent in my blog posts, I limit that transparency. Yet there are still enough 'gaps' for people to fill in. What I've found is they fill in those gaps with positive assumptions about me. As much as I appreciate that, it drives me to expose a little more so I can let some are out of some of the inflated perceptions. did that make sense?? See... I use big words to make myself sound smarter than I am. But you know me JC. You know (first hand) that I'm really a forgetful, foot-in-mouth dork. Thankful there are some in the virtual world that know I'm not all I'm cracked up to be. :) This is entirely true. Although I can be transparent in my blog posts, I limit that transparency. Yet there are still enough ‘gaps’ for people to fill in.

What I’ve found is they fill in those gaps with positive assumptions about me. As much as I appreciate that, it drives me to expose a little more so I can let some are out of some of the inflated perceptions.

did that make sense?? See… I use big words to make myself sound smarter than I am. But you know me JC. You know (first hand) that I’m really a forgetful, foot-in-mouth dork. Thankful there are some in the virtual world that know I’m not all I’m cracked up to be. :)

]]> By: David http://www.jonathancliff.com/2009/11/reflections-on-being-myself/comment-page-1/#comment-770 David Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:42:43 +0000 http://www.jonathancliff.com/?p=1260#comment-770 This is tough one for me. Sometimes I blog/twitter KNOWING that what I say is going to get me nailed, but I put it out there thinking "if I am honest, I have to say this". Then, of course, I get nailed for it. Then there are the times when I struggle to put something out that might get a negative response because I want people to like me. Too much self-promotion? Don't know. Here's something that gave me a big dose of reality last week: I went to my mother-in-law's house to find my blog and twitter feed printed - hard copy - on her kitchen table. Crap. This is tough one for me. Sometimes I blog/twitter KNOWING that what I say is going to get me nailed, but I put it out there thinking “if I am honest, I have to say this”. Then, of course, I get nailed for it. Then there are the times when I struggle to put something out that might get a negative response because I want people to like me. Too much self-promotion? Don’t know.

Here’s something that gave me a big dose of reality last week: I went to my mother-in-law’s house to find my blog and twitter feed printed – hard copy – on her kitchen table. Crap.

]]>