5 Ways Publicizing Yourself Can Save You Time

With social media, email, and the Web changing the way people connect, the possibilities for you to create the type of life you want have exploded!

With that said, you may be asking yourself, “Why bother? Why should I engage and put myself on a limb, if it’s going to cost energy, time, and risk upfront?” I would like to make the biggest case as to why you should consider doing so: To save yourself time.

If you’re not interested in being more well known, if you’re not interested in being a public figure, if you’re not interested in being in the middle of things culturally, if you’re not interested in the opportunity to engage in weirdness at any given moment, simply publicize yourself for one basic reason:

To save yourself time! Here’s 5 reasons how:

1. It can connect you with like-minded people.

Putting yourself out there is one of the quickest ways to let you know who is the most supportive of who you are, and what you are doing at this point in your life. Furthermore, you may have a somewhat distant contact that you didn’t even realize is totally on the same page as you and can support you. This new effort will link you guys up in a new and powerful way. That wouldn’t have been possible if you both had been operating in vacuums, out of the public’s eye. How else is everybody supposed to keep tabs on what you are doing and what you are interested in lately?

2. It can connect you with the right opportunities.

If you need other people to help you in life, whether that be in your personal life, or social scene, or in your work, or however, making yourself more of a presence online will help you to connect with other people, and some of them are bound to help you out or at least open a door or two for you! I have had complete strangers reach out to me as a result of my recent writing endeavors, and now we are connected. That’s a new buddy of mine if I may say so!

3. It can help you stay top-of-mind with your friends and contacts. 

Perhaps even more importantly than #2, spreading yourself out there in the public space will help you to stay top of mind with those people who you already know, and who are already familiar with you, but perhaps forget about you for lengthy stretches of time. Or, when it comes time in someone else’s life to get involved with your space (let’s say they want their back cracked and you’re a chiropractor) they would have called you but -- whoops -- you weren’t top of mind. This will help you stay in front of the people you care about most and stay connected.

4. It can multiple your very self.

As soon as you learn a subject, it is a lot harder to forget it than it was to learn the knowledge in the first place. It is doing the public a great service by documenting that knowledge in a way that can be consumed over and over again. Imagine if anytime an engineer wanted to learn how to build, another engineer had to verbally explain it to them. What a ludicrous notion! Yet, we all have areas where we are most learned and can share some of that with others. We are all busy, and publicizing your experiences online will allow you to still share those things with others, and not spend the entire day chatting by the water cooler repeating yourself -- instead you can go out and have new experiences! And the cycle continues...

5. It can help you identify your goals and passions.

By taking a risk and going out on a limb, it will force you to stretch out into the public and truly embrace your fears, insecurities, and doubts in a way that you never would have otherwise, in the privacy of your own cave. Aside from that, risk-taking is inherently attractive and will compel people to observe what you are doing. Most importantly, by springing into action, and publicizing yourself on different online mediums, you will actually learn what is most important to you, and the biggest ways you could actually be a difference-maker to others.

Good luck and godspeed ahead! 

David Escamilla