05 Aug Stepping Back…
Social Media Detox
Why everyone needs a social media detox from time to time…..
Not sure about you I find social media can consume me. It’s the first thing I look at in the morning and the last thing I see at night. Not a healthy way to live life but it’s my down time. It’s a time to catch up on all things The Gypsy Mumma, different trends and friends. The house is often quiet, there’s not 50,000 questions flying at me from the fam about ‘Where’s this? Have you washed my shirt?’ I know most mums can relate… Hashtag mumlife…
Anyway sometimes it becomes us, we miss out on moments, we get lazy and we stop feeding our brain. Don’t get me wrong I love watching motivation and educational videos on Facebook but sometimes we just need to stop. We need to stop the scrolling…
A couple of weeks ago I stopped, I deactivated my Facebook and detoxed and it was bloody marvellous! It was just what I needed at the time… My world was full of drama, negativity and confusion. Not somewhere I like to hang out. So I decide to make a change, something I try to teach my kids. I often say to them if your not happy about something, change it, fix it or get on with it. Harsh I know but it has always worked for me. It’s life lessons, sometimes things don’t go to plan, sometime life throws us a curve ball but we all have a choice. You get to choose if it will define you… The real lesson is in your reaction…Often a lot of the negativity in our lives can be no fault of our own, it can be circumstances, people, work environments even health. You need to know what effects your mindset and work out a way to change, fix or let it go. Mindfulness is so important, who wants to live a life of fear and dread, who wants to live in the shadows… not me! I’ve had my time there and I’m done! My life isn’t always going to be sunshine and rainbows on the inside I get that but the older I get, the better I get at managing the brain game.
In cutting all ties on the social media front I learnt a valuable lesson. None of it really matters, it’s all just fluff…. It does’nt define me, it doesn’t reward me it’s just there… Your still in touch with your friends. You still have a phone to call, you still have email or Facebook messenger if you need. Life hasn’t stopped just your time wasting has… I learnt to ask more questions, I learnt to pick up the phone again and I learnt to breathe…. I learnt to appreciate the moments again, I learnt my kids insecurities and I learnt to listen again…
I did only last a couple of weeks as obviously Social Media is a huge vehicle in building my blog so I cleaned out the friends list, stopped following random pages and built my Facebook into a page that I love! Sometimes stepping back gives you a lot of clarity, it gives us chance to see our cheerleaders and who’s our stalkers… Don’t worry we all have them…. but it was an opportunity to reflect and see what really makes me happy not what I was doing to make everyone else happy. I think when you hit 40 you get over the bullshit, you don’t want to play high school games anymore, you want substance, you want priorities and you want direction. You want to live your life your way and there’s nothing wrong with that! You don’t need to be accountable to anyone, you don’t need to apologise for loves in your life, some people might not understand your choices but it’s not their choice to get. It’s your journey and your life and you can choose what ever the bloody hell you like!
So go live your life, go be fabulous and choose to live…. Live your life your way.
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