In today’s modern society with mobile technology and the popularity of social media at an all time high, baby boomers, Generation X & Y are all taking part in this emerging technology. It doesn’t matter where you live you can share any piece of information about virtually anything at lightening speed with friends, family and complete strangers with the click of a button.
With the advent of wireless devices integrated with a camera and social networking applications, uploading media to the internet to share across your social network is as easy as 1,2,3. Within seconds you can share your most recent purchase, like your dream car to the latest and trendiest in fashion, or the reward for getting A+ on your test. There is nothing that cannot be shared including a cute video just captured of your baby taking their first step.
If "Keeping up with the Jone’s" was difficult pre-Social Media, well guess what? It just got worse. Social Media just took ‘influence’ to a whole new level. If you think traditional media was bad, wait until you see the power and the influence Social Media and traditional media together will have.
The influenced will feel the need to keep up and to reamin current. Social Media just opened the door to an entire new domain – we are not talking environments with small families or class rooms anymore, we are talking about hundreds and even thousands of people within an environment whom are all connected to hundreds and even thousands more, setting the standard of what is in and what is out.
The influenced already live in a confusing world filled with needs. They live life exercising poor choices influenced by their environment. They allow the environment to determine what they buy what they believe, how they act and what they say. They have a need to keep up with everything even when they cannot. This leaves them feeling like they are not good enough but not even this factoid will cease their chase.
Living within a world of contrast, they feel a need to be the person they are not to satisfy illusionary expecations. Either are they conscious to this fact. In their pursuit to become the idea/illusion they believe they must be, they create a divided world. On one side, I’m Not Good Enough and on the other, I’m Good Enough. Why do they always chase the I’m Not Good Enough side and never acknowledge or even know a Good Enough side exists.
So before you go running off to try and keep up with your online social circle, take a look at who you are and ask yourself the following questions.
- I feel like I am not good enough because______________.
- I am trying to prove ______to ______ because ________.
- In my pursuit to prove ____ I compare myself to________.
- To overcome the feeling of not being good enough I_______.
- Am I still chasing?
- Based on my behaviors I believe _____ about my self-image.
- Describe your self-image:
- For me to be good enough I must ___________________.
- If I accept that I am not good enough life would be _______.
2 comments:
The way I stay in touch with my dreams is quite literal--I make a conscious effort to remember my sleep dreams. Sometimes I write questions for my dreaming mind on a little slip of paper and place it under my pillow.
That's clever, San. Do you know that I cannot remember my dreams in the morning. I rarely feel like I have REM dreams.
What do you dream about?
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