Let’s stay “unplugged” from social media when we get up, and keep our appointment with our real life!
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Is Facebook the last thing you see before you go to bed, and the first thing you check as soon as you get up?
From my observation, it appears that one can either make one’s dream a reality, or choose to check Facebook/ Other social media first thing in the morning? One can choose one, but it seems one can’t do both.
I suspect that’s because choosing to check Facebook first means that you are not that desperate to make your dreams come true. In which case it’s ok to be distracted by other people’s advertisements based on other people’s whims and wishes at that moment. The more Facebook friends we have, the more distractions we are served.
If you seriously want to make your dream a reality, the first few hours of your morning are critical. Whatever you start doing in the morning, that’s likely what you will do most of the day.
Look at people who light up a cigarette first thing in the morning. It’s unlikely that they will stop at one cigarette. People who start drinking Coke first thing in the morning, they are likely to be consistent consumers of coke throughout the day.
So according to my “market survey”, people tend to keep doing throughout the day what they do early on in the morning.
If your intention is to spend as much time as possible mindlessly browsing social media and getting absorbed in a bubble where time escapes you, then it’s certainly ok to continue to run to your smartphone and Facebook first thing, or almost the first thing, in the morning.
Otherwise you can choose to ruthlessly stop yourself going near the smartphone/Facebook when you get up. Lock up the phone and avoid it like whisky in the morning.
Social media is in a way worse than whisky because it doesn’t make you feel bad or guilty about it like whisky. Other people will not give you any pressure to “drink less Facebook” like they would start looking at you in a funny way if you are obviously “drinking too much whisky” And that makes it more dangerous as the seconds we spend on it turns to minutes, and the minutes to hours, hours to day, days to month, and months to years……………. And before we realise it our entire life is given to Facebook.
When you can ruthlessly control how you use Facebook, then you can plug back into life and your dreams, and even make Facebook work wonders for you, such as connecting with friends and sharing with people what you want to share, but with your priorities set back straight. Or using Facebook to reach more people who could benefit from what you put out into the world.
I am curious, are you going to ruthlessly lock up your smartphone in your “whisky cabinet” to get back on track to your real appointments with the life you are meant to live?