Spend Less Time Following Other’s Lives, and More Time Leading Your Own

It’s not all your own fault…you know…that crazy and rationalized justification that you HAVE to check your Facebook feed, or you HAVE to check the news (maybe entertainment news?), or you HAVE to see what’s going on with your favorite sports team’s twitter feed. We have an underlying HUMAN NEED for not wanting to miss something, because that’s tied to our NEED for BELONGING.  And the modern technology of today has exponentially improved our ability to be constantly finding out what’s going on in the WORLD. BUT…these distractions and addictions are killing your productivity (not to mention the breeding of negativity…a topic for another time).  They allow your mind to give in to the resistance. They allow your mind to distract itself away from the creativity and progress that needs to happen. How many times in the last 3 hours have you picked up your phone randomly and looked the news or Facebook feed?  Has anything useful come from that? Each time you do that, you lose, on average, 11 minutes of productivity as your mind context switches. Here’s how you combat it:

• Recognize and find YOUR WORLD vs THE WORLD.  YOUR WORLD is your circle that includes the things and people that you need to care about to help you achieve your goals.
• Setup your technology to give you ONLY the information you need about YOUR WORLD.  This means things like:
  • Turn off notifications from ALL SOURCES that are not directly in YOUR WORLD.
  • Set up an RSS feed that supplies only the news that matters to YOUR WORLD, and filters out the rest.
  • Delete (yes, DELETE) the 25 free games you have installed.
• Turn off the TV and radio news.  Is there actually breaking news every 10 minutes?

You MUST consume information from THE WORLD on your OWN TERMS, not on the terms dictated by the device in your pocket.  It’s liberating to free yourself from the shackles of the device in your pocket.  It’s a great tool, and use it to leverage and save time, but make it work FOR you by consuming its content on YOUR TERMS from YOUR WORLD. The bottom line is that you must LEAD YOUR OWN LIFE in order to achieve your goals.  The more you get sucked into THE WORLD and what’s happening in other’s lives, the more you can’t lead your own. So go out there and lead your life! If you are looking for solutions to help you live better and achieve your goals, please contact me anytime!  I want nothing more than to help you reach your goals! Have a great day!