Comments on: 4 Inputs I’m Cutting Off

By: How to Filter Through a Ton of Blog Posts | More Than DodgeBall - Youth Ministry Blog by Josh Griffin - Saddleback Church Youth Ministries

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:04:00 +0000

[...] Unsubscribe if there’s consistently nothing I benefit from It takes me a while, but eventually I might unsubscribe just to reduce the number of inputs in my life. [...]

By: Nathaniel Dame

Nathaniel Dame — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:55:41 +0000

Way to go man! I’m constantly getting distractions out of my life… I don’t know why I’m so tempted to subscribe to nonsense blogs. I usually watch them for a week, then think, “why am I wasting my time with this?” Great reminder–I probably need to o through them again!

By: Brian Switalski

Brian Switalski — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:15:34 +0000

Josh, I agree with reducing the noise as well. I have been reading your blog and listening to the SYM podcast for a while and was wondering how you did it all!?!?!?! I recently deleted about 10 podcasts that I subscribe to. Don’t worry, SYM made the cut!

Any consideration to how much time you spend on theforce.net and how it competes for your time against youth ministry? I work a non ministry job and have been struggling with how my non ministry job gets in the way of doing youth ministry! I am close to making a break from my non ministry job into full time youth ministry. I really am cheating (In Andy Stanley’s words) my non ministry job in favor of youth ministry.

Brian

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:52:50 +0000

@Terrace I cut off a ton of Tweets … I’ll still see any @joshuagriffin replies though. Sorry, man …

By: Terrace Crawford

Terrace Crawford — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:54:15 +0000

@Josh – I think its wise. Our world is too noisy already. Now, I’d have to keep my myspace. A number of my students are still there – so I keep it up for them. Sorry to see you stopped following my tweets.

Much love,
/TC/

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:56:14 +0000

@Scott … surely, MTDB makes the cut, right?

By: Scott Tinman

Scott Tinman — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:42:30 +0000

So I am guessing morethandodgeball.com should always be on my list.

Another suggestion I read about was scheduling during the day when to log in to e-mail and respond. I know it is hard that every time you here the sound that a new message has been downloaded so this is a tough one. I am also realizing my time on Facebook is way out of control and need to address it.

By: wiseguy

wiseguy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:57:35 +0000

confucious says: “man who resists the urge to clutter his/her life with lots of noise now, will seldom have to remove the messy noises later.”

(is delivered much better via the “yoda voice” i am typing in)

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:05:48 +0000

I mostly agree with you. I’ve never used an IM; I use Bloglines, which allows me to arrange blogs into folders. I’ve set up the blogs I read into folders ’1′ thru ’9′ and rate/move them as I read them. They start at ’5′. Anyone that has been moved into ’9′ doesn’t get a read. How about that for geeky micro-managing control-freak?

Not sure I would agree with deleting your MySpace account though – just put a note there to point folks to Facebook. I rarely use either, but I think it’s important to keep control of my online identity.

By: neely

neely — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:33:19 +0000

so I guess my blog about lessons from motherhood and adoption is out, huh?

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:31:00 +0000

I’ve been thinking of pruning down my google reader list as well, I might give up some of the blogs I rarely read and some that are updated so often that I don’t really read (I’m looking at you Engadget).

I use Digsby to keep me connected to my email, messaging, myspace, and facebook. I don’t really use myspace, but some of my teens do so I’ll keep it around.

I am starting to come to grips with my obsession with “checking” things online and at times it can become a disruption to my productivity. I might need to take some more drastic measures (like manditory tech/internet day off, etc.).