I was listening to Tony Robbins’s work Lessons in Mastery (amazon affiliate link) on my drive to Montreal recently. I’d listened to it once before a long time back, but after having met him while recording the Internet Money Masters project, I’ve been revisiting some of his works. I took a lot out of the CDs, but wanted to offer one thought.
Tony said that we’re creatures of deletion, that we have to eliminate a lot of things that don’t matter at any given moment so that we can focus on what matters. For instance, we don’t think much about the car noise, about the way the seat feels, about the way the floor mat needs cleaning when we’re about to merge into traffic. We focus on the cars, on merging, and we delete all the other distractions.
In social media, you’re being told all the time to grow bigger ears, to listen, to stay up to date on everything. You’re being told to join all the conversations you can, to monitor your brand or your opportunities at every step. You’re given lots of examples to interact with humans and their stream of personal media.
But there’s no one reminding you to pare back. My recent post where I suggest that you find your blinders might be something in that direction. Leo Babauta tells you to pare back in The Power of Less.
That message is very quiet compared to the larger message of CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME.
Just a thought for you to consider. Are there things you could (should?) pare back?
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