Welcome to the Pieces of soul podcast. My name is Ashley and Im a gamification and goal setting expert. A master visionary, strategic planning coach and a A 7 figure entrepreneur.

I LOVE helping people figure out what it is they truly want in life and then teaching them practical steps to take their vision from being a dream to their realty.

Let me guide you in pairing the spiritual world with the business world in order for you to plan your practical strategic steps needed to cross the finish lines of your dreams.

In today's episode we will be talking about the difference between consuming and creating.

When we are busy watching others, 

we aren’t making time for ourselves 

or building our lives. 

We get stuck in the trap of consuming instead of creating.
You are either creating or consuming, 

never both. 

We can't multitask, 

despite what most people think. 

That’s not how the brain functions. 

It can only fully hold one task at a time. 

Whenever you are consuming, 

you need to accept that you have ceased creating. 
This is a hard pill to swallow, 

but it’s true. 

It’s also why social media has the potential to leave us feeling so empty! Consuming it, we are giving all our energy to it in those moments. 

When we are constantly feeding the screen our energy, 

we have none left for ourselves. 

It leaves us feeling empty 

and drained in our real lives.

I am not saying social media is evil. 

This doesn't mean I’m telling you not to interact with it. 

In fact, it’s very likely how you found me! 

And of course, I’ll continue to use it too.
I am not teaching you about the system to change it. 

I am teaching you how the system really works 

so that you know the factors at play 

so that you can adjust your strategy around them. 

So you can win.

Consumption, 

specifically of media, is a factor in the Game

and when not managed well, 

severely impacts your ability to succeed in your own life. 

You must learn to manage it intelligently 

with a strategy that considers 

a social media application’s cost-benefit analysis. 

In your life

Social media may have been initially intended as a two-way platform, but most people aren't using it to communicate back and worth in this way. 

Instead, it functions more as a broadcast style of communication. 

There are those who are creating content (the minority) 

and those who are consuming it (the majority). 

In current usage, 

it is far from a two-way communication stream! 

The way the masses are consuming social media, it has become voyeuristic.

I never really understood what the word voyeurism meant 

until I was in New York a few years ago and I attended a play. 

I’d heard the word used before 

but didn’t know the definition 

or have any frame of reference for it. 

This play wasn’t really a play. 

It was more of an interactive experience. 

To be honest, it was an absolutely wild experience 

that taught me what voyeurism is 

by getting me to experience it along with the audience.
The purpose of the play was a critique of human behavior

and our natural inclination to want to watch one another. 

All audience members became voyeurs.

Let me explain how this play worked…
We all bought tickets and waited to go in. 

The “theater” was an old hotel, 

with tons of big rooms and hallways leading to other big bathrooms. Instead of being led to seats, 

we were led into a room where we stood until the actors appeared. There was a huge mass of us standing all together in the room. 

As we stood packed in the room, 

the actors began their performance in front of us.
It was wildly different from watching a play with actors on a stage. 

We were IN the room with them, 

and they were drawing off of our energy, 

making it clear that they knew we were in the room with them, 

watching them. 

The actors then moved to another room. 

And the audience, or spectators, 

followed along to keep watching. 

The spectators became increasingly intrigued by the actors 

Whenever the actors left the room, 

the audience began to run after them, 

hurrying so as not to miss anything. 

Sometimes, the audience would move so fast it would almost beat the performers to the next room. 

Their voyeuristic curiosity was so intense! 
I was more fascinated by the way the other audience members were behaving than by the performance. It was amazing watching behavior change as the performance went on and as people’s curiosity intensified. I had an AHA moment standing there. THIS is what social media is doing to us. It has harnessed the essence of voyeurism and our curiosity has turned us from curious observers to voyeurs.
Voyeurism is technically defined as an interest in observing unsuspecting people while they undress, are naked, or engage in sexual activities. The overall interest is more connected to the act of watching than it is to the individual being watched.
In the more relevant modern application, voyeurism is more about gaining an intimate look into someone else's world. This doesn’t have to be something sexual or physical. I would argue that seeing inside someone’s home is, in itself, intimate. This is what people are now doing every day through social media. They’re opening up their homes, allowing their daily lives to be observed, often VERY voyeuristically. 

Have you thought about this?
The real reason I am talking to you about all of this is not to crucify social media or media in general. Really, the bottom line of all of this is to remind you that we are not meant to be spectators in our lives. We are not meant to be merely entertained or watching others voyeuristically…
…because if you are primarily consuming, you aren’t living your life. 
When you are consuming, you cease creating.
You can’t really be doing both.
Do you want to get stuck in the trap of consuming instead of creating?
I hope not! You are meant to create!
I want you to CREATE.  The Universe wants you to create and expand.
You ARE a creative being, possessing powers to achieve unlimited potential in your life.
Declare it. Claim that power!
Take back control from anything and everything out there that is keeping you from creating!

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