In the world of 24-hour news and continuous visual overload, it is occasionally nice to just sit back and contemplate — one’s life, one’s world, one’s navel. It’s amazing what you can learn when folks are willing to share those contemplative moments — from the random to the sublime, from the provocative to the banal. This morning my friend Alex Kjerulf, the Chief Happiness Officer, “tagged” me to share 8 random things about myself. At first I thought it was kind of nuts and the blogosphere’s version of a email chain letter. Plus, I don’t normally go about sharing random details about my life with the world. But then I thought, “what a great way to connect people and raise our collective consciousness”. Very Social Age. So I decided to play along.

The rules of tagging:

1) Post these rules before you give your facts.
2) List 8 random facts about yourself.
3) At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names (linking to them)
4) Leave them a comment on their blog letting them know they’ve been tagged!

8 Random Facts About Me:

1. For me, everyday is Saturday –an integrated daily balance between life, work, fun, family, fitness and doing my part to change the world.

2. Some people collect baseball cards. I collect people.

3. In my opinion, there’s nothing better than a stimulating conversation.

4. I believe that children hold the key to the future of humanity and that we are obligated to prepare them for that responsibility.

5. Seeing people suffer breaks my heart.

6. I like to make up words. My latest: skidlings, monovelist, polynovelist, totaltoting. (If you want to guess what any of them mean, leave a comment below)

7. I don’t like people who are mean to waiters.

8. I believe each one of us CAN make a difference.

I don’t know a lot of people in the blogger community (perhaps this exercise will change that) , so I’m only going to “tag” a few cool friends, and hopefully they won’t hate me.

• Stephen Shapiro at who writes about Unconventional Thinking
• Traci Fenton from WorldBlu who writes about Organizational Democracy
• David Norris of OnRequest Images who writes OnBrand
• Kevin Jones, partner at Good Capital, guest blogger on The Social Age and blogger at Xigi.net

If you’d like to create your own list of 8 random things about you, feel free to add them in the comments or contact me and I will post them for you!