Three women were profiled for today's article, Tweeting to Inspire, in the Essentials section of Boulder's Daily Camera. One uses social media to record her cycling feats, one uses it to share the journey of weight loss, one uses it to encourage others to salsa dance and do yoga (me). The three of us had the chance to talk with Jenn Fields, the Camera reporter who wrote the piece for the Social Media Special of today's paper. Jenn is, herself, an avid climber and "bad Buddhist" according to her Twitter bio. Before she posted the piece she read a portion of it back to me to let me check and see if there were any errors in her reporting. There were, unsurprisingly, no errors. I can tell that Jenn is meticulous about her writing - she's a researcher who tells a compelling story. Including the author, the four of us have one thing in common: we use the social web to share our growth experiences.

I sat down last week with my friend Melanie. She's currently going through a growth experience - rocking the Peak Condition Project. We talked about the ups and downs (pun intended) of reaching peak condition. We agreed that there is no simple solution - and that we have good days and bad days when it comes to eating well and working out. Even with a diet and exercise plan - looking at the facts of a healthy lifestyle - it's still hard sometimes to do the right thing.

My online work is that way, too. I plan and outreach and strategize and then forget to engage the strategy. Or I get side-tracked (it happens a lot). I write BLOG on my calendar several times a week. I tell myself to blog from 10-11am three times a week. I usually miss the mark but I don't beat myself up over it when glitches happen. I just keep moving forward.

In September I have the opportunity to speak at the Interactive Strategies conference in Houston with some of the people I love most in the world. I'll be talking about using our mistakes to propel us forward (I'm calling it "glitchwell" - a concept that is still in experimental phase). As the article in today's paper shows, you will be congratulated and encouraged if you win Silver instead of Gold. You will hear your supporters rally if you lose two pounds instead of three. You will find a community that understands when you eat crappy food when you travel instead of eating a healthy diet. The only real mistake you can make (on the social web) is failing to keep moving forward.

What I'd like to know is this: how do you keep yourself moving forward? What are you struggling with (online or offline) that you ask your community of friends online to help you work with?

Thanks to all the people and places that brought the article, Tweeting to Inspire, to life (thank you all for inspiring me - and for including me in the article):

Jenn Fields (author of the article)

Sara Sullivan (See Sara Shrink)

Ingrid Alongi (Electromute - cyclist)

Patrick Reynolds (Peak Condition Project creator, pictured with me at our studio, above)

Yoga Pod's Andrew & Jessika (Two of Boulder's finest yoga instructors)