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CONSUMING OR CREATING

The more respect we have for ourselves and the greater our awareness, the less we get sucked into any of this and the less we allow ourselves to become spectators. That's all it is. 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 what social media can do to us. THIS is why social media has the potential to leave us feeling so empty! By consuming it, we are giving all our energy to it because where our attention goes, our energy flows. 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. Remember what I said: 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 and then adjust your strategy around them. So you can win.

Consumption, specifically of media, is a factor in the game, and when not managed well, it 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. 

You are going to learn more about social media's effects in Volume: Digital Soul as I help you navigate some of these choices. This section just serves to give you a starting (and maybe startling!) point for overstanding just how much it’s influencing your life.

Exercise:

Instructions: Reflect on where you have been giving your power away. Where and what in your life have you been consuming instead of creating? Write down as many things as you can think of. How much time and energy would you have to create if you stopped consuming? What would you like to create in your life? Write your answers down. You can reflect and revisit this over the coming weeks as you notice patterns around where you are spending your time and energy.

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