How Sacking One Task Off Can Improve Your State of Mind

WhatsApp. Love it? Hate it? Indifferent?

Years ago I opted out of a group which felt less like a community and more like a moaning shop.

I was approached by a neighbour who said, ‘Oo did you get thrown out of the group?’ I explained I opted out.

The 45 messages venting about dog muck was the last straw.

I did the same years ago with my personal FB account. The angry emoji’s spoilt it. Whereas with Instagram (with the exception of comments…they’ll always be keyboard warriors), you either ❤️ a post or scroll on by.

Protecting Our State of Mind

I believe in protecting our state of mind and consciously feeding it with positivity where we can. Especially as 80% of our thoughts are negative and 20% are positive - let’s give ourselves a fighting chance!!

It's not often I recommend scrolling social media, but here's the exception. The SM algorithm can work for us. We train it with what we view. If you were to scroll my feed, it would include the loves of my life:

✅ Beautiful quotes about daughters. I send them to my girl. I get mum quotes back.

✅Daft dad jokes for my husband. I save these and we binge watch them together whenever we fancy a laugh, as he doesn't do SM at all.

✅ Funny Frenchie videos. I’m shallow.

✅ Inspirational thought leaders. I have learnt SO MUCH. I save these too for research.  

If something that I don’t have to do, goes to 10% fun & 90% not fun / negative (consistently), I opt out. In the summer I sacked off WhatsApp.

Sorry if I’ve not got back to you 😳.

Reflection

1. What's negatively impacting your state of mind?
2. How could you give yourself one less thing to do?

Cheers to having one less thing to do!

Estelle Read

Coach, Trainer, Speaker and Best Selling Author

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