hey, morning, I’m just getting through breakfast and coffee and i wanted to write, when you get into a routine like writing a newsletter it seems weird not to pull out the keyboard and start writing. I kinda miss doing the newsletter but i promised myself i would take a month of social media — it’s not been hard to do it’s just adapting to the time and energy difference in the mornings and catching myself opening tabs to bring up news, twitter and ‘the usuals’
It’s certainly refreshing to know that i can unplug it. I still feel like I’m kinda still up on the news each day as i still use flipboard early morning and at night so i get my global barometer fix that way but i really don’t need to absorb that stuff in the day especially when i want to be focused.
Photo by Damon Lam on Unsplash
Freezing the socials was the best thing I could do in an intense pinch. I was getting so frustrated at not delivering on the ideas in my head, not finishing courses and just not being very good at breaking up my time blocks properly, the distraction economy was real but worse of all i was convinced that i could add a bit more time on to my day to allow for it — dumb.
Social Media is very much like a phase shift in your own focus and attention, it’s so powerfully written and created now that titles, context and ‘what we like’ is pushed front and centre with the ‘characters’ of that content who you really sub for, now the time it takes away from you.
being exposed to someone’s life they want to allow you to see is not the same as being part of someone’s real everyday life struggles, we seem to have crafted the perfect alternate time faucet for displacement of apathy time.
Sitting here today wishing that Tuesday was Monday but i just could’nt muster up the energy to switch gears yesterday, that’s another thing I’ve found out about myself since the great social switch off is that if i can finish something and get it out then it floats around frustrating me — no blockchain, just stuff sits around ready to be done.
i should have recorded the video for EP5 of buzz factor yesterday but did’nt because i had to do some backups and disk management, at least that went smooth thou, I’m upgrading some of the old school native hybrid drive crap and switching to new m2.ssd for booting.
Don’t get me wrong yesterday i was incredibly present, nearly 4 days into the whole social downtime and routine switch i felt like i had as much time i needed to do what i wanted i just felt physically exhausted in my body — ain’t that always the way that it’s a battle to get to the perfect unison between a clear mind and a fit body, we do torture ourselves over it.
Feel I’ll be back on track today and i have no doubt that because i want to get something creative done that the client will get back to me because you know, the rule of sod and all that! :) — hard to believe it’s September but i’m kinda thankful for it in a way, kids back at school and a straight shot to the end of the year now, everyone back into work mode, fertile ground for courses and learning and to switch things up a peg.
Right, finish breakfast and get back into this little graphic to stick on this post i think, record ep5 and do the latest quest on reviewhunt, add some course parts and keep stepping through, let’s make that bank! :)
