Audit Your Network...Not Just Your Diet
Bram Connolly, DSM
Modern Leadership Theorist | Blending Practical Leadership with Academic Research | Founder of Hindsight | 3x Best-Selling Author
With 2021 well and truly underway, now is an excellent time for us to be more accountable for not only what we put into our mouths, but also what we put into our heads.
Take a moment to curate your Instagram feed. I found that removing negativity and toxicity from my daily feeds has been curative. I have culled anyone and anything that doesn’t inspire me or reflect my values.
Why should we give them a platform?
You will feel lighter, happier, better when you focus on people and ideas that bring value to your life. Gossip, drama, and the lives of so-called influencers are not paths towards a healthy mind.
Of course, don’t just limit yourself to Instagram. LinkedIn can be just as big of a culprit. Be thoughtful about who you follow and the posts you invest your time in. Unfollow those who compete with you for attention, time, energy, or market share. It doesn't matter what people in your rearview are doing. What matters is what you are doing.
If you’re posting on LinkedIn - then for the love of God, add value. If you are looking for people to follow, consider this: are they adding value to your life and your feed, or do they think of you as just another marketing opportunity? You can spot the difference by the comments they have on their posts. The marketers have other marketers from the same industry all echoing each other. True thought leaders and innovators have cohorts of followers from diverse industries.
Here’s another top tip - unsubscribe from anything that comes your way that you don’t read. Why are you deleting emails from sources you don’t value enough to sit and absorb? There are better ways to spend time than deleting emails from people or organisations you could not care less about.
Eliminate clickbait and sensationalist websites.
“Famous celebrity does something: you won’t believe what happened next!” Yes. Yes, you will.
“Your neighbour lost 50kgs with this simple trick!” They fell for a scam and are now in debt.
You don’t need this rubbish to clutter up your mind; it’s empty-calories for your brain.
My message to myself, and by extension to any of you that still follow me, is to be more responsible for the information that you ingest. Just because it’s out there doesn’t make it good for you.
If you do this, and if you keep following me, my pledge to you is to only share content that I have thought long and hard about, or that I believe will add value to your life.
HR Business Partner & Teamlead Administration bei Avobis Group AG
1 年I agree with you. In this day and age, it's hard to imagine life without social media. It is a curse and a blessing at the same time: A blessing because we are inspired and understood by people like you and we can decide for ourselves what we want to see and not see through selective information channels. It is up to each and every one of us to decide for ourselves what we feed our minds. A curse, because in most cases it is not about people and relationships per se, but purely about profit. The sophisticated, powerful tools are also part of the arsenal of dishonest and dangerous people who endanger mental and emotional health as a result. I'm glad you share your thoughts and perspective here and I for one like to be inspired by extraordinary people who help make me a better person. My motto: Never stop being inquisitive, learning and growing and pass on what you learn to others. Thank you!
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4 年Bram, may I ask why you would be awake at 3AM and why then would you be wasting your life on Instgram then instead of having a great sleep? No Judgement just asking. I deactivated my FB account 13 months ago and removed Instagram from my phone then and have not posted on it since then either very liberating.
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4 年As a dietitian nutritionist, I find what we feed our minds and what we allow to remain there affect us so much more than what we feed our body. Thanks Bram!
Just what I needed to read to remind myself to continue the purge. You are absolutely spot on as usual Bram.