Welcome to Daily Insight,
My name is François and in this episode I will talk about social media and your definition of success.
So get ready to expand your perspective and embrace positive change.
What metrics do you set for success?
Is it money?
Fame?
Wealth?
Deep relationships?
I mean it's up to you but the reality is that you are highly influenced by your environment.
The thing is no matter what or the society set as success metrics,
The only thing we truly want is to feel good.
We will always be chasing a feeling or actually the things that we think will give us that feeling.
In this era where social media apps rule our days and let's be honest it does,
We keep comparing ourselves with others.
We see pictures of people in sport cars,
Dining at fancy restaurants,
Flying in private jets or videos of couples jumping from a sailboat somewhere in the Caribbean.
You know and you see all of that while laying on your couch in your sweatpants after 10 hours working in a job that you don't even like.
So you can't help yourself to think my life sucks.
Well that's the reality of a lot of people.
The problem is that we associate how those people look from the outside with how they feel from the inside.
When you look at the photo you consciously and unconsciously analyze it.
You identify people's feelings with facial expressions,
The body language etc and you also observe their surroundings.
Then you make a very biased conclusion.
To feel how they feel I need to have what I have.
And you see these kinds of photos multiple times every day and the more likes you give the more the algorithm keeps showing you similar content.
So you confirm your belief over and over again until you come to the conclusion that you will only feel happy,
Joyful,
Loved or confident or whatever when you will have the car,
The house,
The partner,
The boat,
The suit or whatever.
That is the dangerous moment when you start giving exclusivity to a feeling.
And that's also the moment when you go on that quest for external success hoping to feel better inside.
We create this illusion of success and money.
We think this is the end goal and so we take a detour instead of going straight to the only thing that we really want.
Be happy and feel good.
People focus all their energy,
The time and the sacrifice,
Their personal life to achieve something just to realize that they've got it wrong when they finally have it.
But it doesn't have to be you.
You don't need to take a detour to experience those feelings.
They are available to you today.
So how does success feel to you?
What can you do to create those feelings every day?
And yes sure,
At the same time you can pursue those big goals.
Play the money game.
I mean it's so much fun but remember that it is not the end goal.
Thank you for choosing to spend this few minutes with me.
I hope this episode has left you with a powerful takeaway to apply to your life.
Remember it's the small steps we take each day that lead to significant transformation.
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Stay focused and embrace the potential of each new day.
