Time For Clarity (Sauca) In Social Media To Deepen Relationships
Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 7:47PM 
In order to cultivate and grow relationships, you have to choose yourself first.
I had a really hard time doing this for myself for the majority of my life, and thus made less than stellar choices regarding those that I chose to get close to. I've got the real life thing a bit under control, but now it's the time to do it up in cyber space!
Now that I'm feeling that I am emerging from my Mama cave (for those of you that do not know, I stay at home with my 3 year old and 4 month old and do all my work in the wee hours of the morning) I think it's time to magnify and grow the quality of relationships I have online.
A bit of my social media history- Twitter paradise
I got onto social media way before it was as cool as it is now. I remember getting on twitter "back in the day" forging a ton of new relationships with people I had never met because none of my real life friends and acquaintances were on twitter.
That was perhaps the best experience I had with social media. I had a handful of active first adopters that I kept in contact with via text messages if you can believe that!
I actually received a text message every time anyone updated their twitter status! gulp
And I loved it :D
In fact some of those first twitter followers have now been in my life now since spring 2007. Wow. Almost 5 years. They are folks that I hold in my heart very closely even though there are some I've never met!
Twitter chaos
As of now, I no longer properly hang out on Twitter because it's just too much. My stream does not feed me. There are a ton of people I don't know, and to be honest don't care enough to know because I haven't invested any time there.
I generally get too overwhelmed with the amount of updates, and when I try to find the folks that I really do want to follow, I can't find them :(
What's even more ironic is that I help other people get comfortable with twitter as well as help it work for them...sigh
Enough is enough.
I'm clarifying my social media presence and I'm starting with Twitter.
Clarity in social media engagement = authentic offerings all around
In yoga, clarification, purity, cleanliness, is called Sauca.
There are two main aspects to Sauca, inner and outer. There is inner purity and practices that sustain that, and there is the outer purity and the steps we take towards creating that.
This social media clean-up if you will is external in nature and as a by product clarity and purity of mind and heart ensues. The more refined and meaningful social media relationships and engagement become, the greater ease in creating authentic connections that both empower yourself as well as others.
I can't wait to share how I did it and if it's making my connections more meaningful :)
Have you gone through this? What tools did you use to clean up the chaos?
This series of posts is a part of #40to40, my personal countdown toward my 40th birthday. It's all about bringing clarity to who I am in all facets of my life. You can follow my tech posts through their tag #40to40 in this blog, or my yoga/health #40to40 posts over at Elsie's Yoga Kula :)
IMAGE CREDIT via Creative Commons "frustration" by -reuben-
#40to40, clarity, clean up, sauca, social media 
Reader Comments (2)
Elsie, THANK you for writing this post. It really resonated with me. I feel like I have been on an extended sabbatical from both teaching, blogging and what-not as I put all of myself into mothering. Now that I'm feeling the pull to come back, I am asking where I find the most meaning ful connection. As someone who has also embraced various platforms (twitter, tumblr, fb, etc.) and found true, authentic friendships through them, this is important. I love the conversation! Much gratitude to you!!!
Kelly
Lovely Kelly!!!I sooo appreciate you taking the time to comment :) You know, I've missed you :) yep, this whole clarification thing becomes so very important once motherhood begins to color everything that you do. It's pretty amazing.
As I've been delving into this twitter thing I've found that the more clear you are when you begin to take part within social media, the easier it will become to keep up with it as well as grow from it.
I've already put in 3 hours into sifting through Twitter and still have a ton of work to do! It's pretty insane...*sigh* Wish I would have know before what I know now ;) HA!
Glad to see you back!