What goes into a blog post? Helpful, industry-specific content that: 1) gives readers a useful takeaway, and 2) shows you’re an industry expert.
Figured I’d keep the hint statement for the first blog post as a way of getting started.
Its April 16, A day after my birthday.
I took away from yesterday that a change needed to be made in my life. For far too long I’ve been feeling stuck. Maybe you have been feeling the same way as well. It has been feeling like the goal posts have just kept moving further and further back. What once seemed reachable gets further out of reach.
Not to make a sob story out of things but I felt it was time to start my leave of the matrix.
To start, like Neo, it was time to unplug.
To be real it isn’t easy. Getting off of social media in any way is no joke if you’re someone who likes to scroll and consume content endlessly. What you say will only be 5-10 minutes turns into a 4 hour doom scroll session, and you wonder where the day went. I am sitting here writing this post and working on this site instead of scrolling the Gram.
To be fair to social media, IF used properly it is a very powerful tool. You can find like minded individuals, build a community, start a business and market yourself, the possibilities are truly endless. Notice I highlighted 1 particular word….IF
I don’t know about the majority; but I always end up scrolling, and scrolling, and scrolling. Consuming posts, and living vicariously through others. And in doing so there is a depression that sinks in as well. A depression from in-action, and a depression from comparing. I don’t know if its a default setting of people, but I also get into that habit of comparing. Comparing myself to others and what others have or are.
Comparing yourself to anyone other than yourself is a bad habit that doesn’t help. Perhaps you were raised on a comparison basis; to a sibling, or another family member. Your brother or sister got an A+, you got a B maybe a C; your cousin is on their 3rd house, you can’t even afford to move out, etc… Basically, Person X > You.
Sound familiar?
Is it right? No, no its not. You’re not Person X, and Person X isn’t you. They are not in your situation, and you are not in theirs. And like Henry Cavill said in an interview of giving 5 lessons he learned from someone, the last one, life isn’t fair.
The only person you should be comparing yourself to is well… yourself……
What an idea! Right!?! Changing that little comparison
You ><=You.
Only person you have any right to compare yourself to is yourself (or maybe a clone of yourself if you had the exact same circumstances, but we aren’t getting into scifi what-if’s here).
When you compare yourself to yourself then you also see a level of progress and dare I say accountability to yourself….
You can finally start marking YOUR progress. You can say I did good today, or hold yourself accountable in those times when you say, I could’ve done better here.
To pull all this together, day after my birthday I’m working on everything written above.
Taking a break from social media
Not comparing myself to anyone other than myself
Working on projects and having action.
I hope you found this post helpful for yourself. If you know anyone who would benefit from this please share it on.