The Practice of Your Life

The Exercise and Pursuit of a Consciously Created Life

Let me introduce you to my two new best friends

Sep 13
2009
Let me introduce you to my two new best friends
Meet Carlos and Tony.  Met Carlos on Friday night, and Tony on Saturday night (last night).  They are both pilots and were in new York on training.  They are two of the nicest people that you could ever meet and yet couldn’t be more different from each other.
As we shared a cab going from one bar to another (clubs actually) Tony shared his admiration for Carlos’ spontaneity and his ability to make friends in

How do we categorize the people in our lives?

Mar 31
2008

On the popular social networking sites we have one category: friend.  But what are the other categories of “friends” that we use in real life. How do we categorize the people that we have in our lives?  

  1. Family
    1. Parent
    2. Sibling
    3. Cousins
    4. Aunts/Uncles
    5. Step
    6. Half
    7. Adopted
  2. Partner
    1. boyfriend/girlfriend
    2. Companion
    3. ex
  3. Friend
    1. Best friend
    2. Close friend
    3. Friend of a friend
    4. Acquaintance
  4. Business
    1. Contact
    2. Associate
    3. Boss
    4. Colleague
  5. People in my environment
    1. Guy in the lobby of my building, cleaning lady, deli store owner etc., regulars at my Starbucks
  6. Enemies
    1. People that I

“Friends” on social networking sites

Mar 17
2008

I was at a panel discussion the other night where the participants discussed the social networking phenomen. Andrew Weinrich, Founder and CEO, MeetMoi a mobile dating service caused quite a stir when he said that he manages his social networking quite carefully and would not accept just anyone that friended him. From Mr. Weinrich’s point-of-view, accepting everyone that “friended him would devalue his network. Eric Alterman, Founder and Chairman, KickApps seemed to be Mr. Weinrich’s counter-point for most of the evening and from his perspective it didn’t devalue his network and all depended on the context. More on the context in another post.

But all this got me thinking about the whole concept of a friend. A major practice of your life