Just like you, I’m one of a kind. I think that is part of the reason so much of the marketing online chatter is sounding like geese cackling. “You can get that incomparable success factor you want by:”
• Getting clear.
• Be grateful everyday.
• Have business plan.
• Here are THE steps.
• Brand yourself.
• And advice goes on and on.
Many of these words of advice are valuable. That’s not my point. It’s just that – it is all about the same.
What occurs to me, is who has that much to say that you haven’t heard before? Isn’t it more that you may not be acting on what you know to do?
If we know many of these pearls, do we procrastinate? Are we overwhelmed? Is it something else? I’m not sure if it’s just an introvert thing or not. Here is a bit of how it’s affecting my brain:
It clouds my thinking.
With my life experiences, I believe I’ve already heard and seen much the same hundreds of times, it’s more likely I just skim the information. Then in my introvert mind, I turn a question around until it makes me dizzy; “Did I miss THE key?” “What new pearl did I maybe miss? I get so frantic at times to get to the nitty gritty, most of what I am reading doesn’t penetrate my thinking. What sticks is, I’ve heard THIS before. If there was anything new it was looking at me like a polar bear at the North Pole.
I end up wasting time.
The cycle begins. I believe I missed something critical. I go back and reread. There is something important – I am reminded about. It’s not new news, but a reminder. Then decision-making gets a kick-start. I wonder, “When I did this in the past was it helpful?” or “If I do this now, how much time do I give it?” Like with Twitter. Do I follow everyone who follows me? Or do I do what I can to whittle down the numbers? After all, quantity doesn’t in the end tickle my introvert fancy. I hear the clock ticking.
I can’t always sleep peacefully.
Usually I fall right asleep. But besides our electronic overuse now texting us into overwhelm (I don’t text anyway) now more than even I take more mind chatter to bed of what came across in my emails, what someone comment on FaceBook and more. In particular I count these sheep, “Was Guru A’s ideas” as alike as buttons on a shirt to Guru B’s ideas?” And, “How am I going to get this all done?” Zzz. Sort it out tomorrow and when I can think more clearly.
What’s droning on and on for you? Or is there some cackling that you hear?
With what seems to be a growing online addiction to “the success factor”, how is it affecting you?