Noah and I spent the day with our cousins today and had a blast. But that's to be expected. It's so nice to be able to go to a sibling's house and jump right in so seamlessly as if they were my own. Which brings me to my next thought. This whole staying away from social media thing has really freed up some time for me to focus on the quality of my personal relationships, and has inspired me to "operate" differently. I realized today that I need to go back to the basics. With technology these days it's so easy to just advertise and/or market online through social media. But what's lacking there? Quality interaction. Quality relationships. Yes, I'm reaching out to many more people, but is that what's most important? I need to get out there and ask for their business face to face. Talk with them. Figure out what it is they're looking for, build a rapport with them and then if it's a good fit, ask them for their business. I feel like those will be the long-term clients that will inspire me to push myself even further to better and even perfect the services I offer. And with shaving off the 5-10 minutes every hour that I shamelessly spend a day looking at my Facebook and IG, that has freed up at least an hour that I could spend making those fact to face contacts..
Also, I've realized that I'm not as busy as I thought or felt I was. I just felt "busy" because of the constant checking, rechecking and so on. Busy work isn't always productive.
So being social media free today (I paid a ridiculously small fee to boost a FB post this morning, to reach more potential clients so that I could have the day to watch my sister's kids for her) and had such a good time. Noah bless his heart had an allergic reaction twice today. To foods I'm pretty sure he's had at least a few times, but that's the thing with him. One day he's fine, the next I'm on hive watch. He's fine now and sleeping peacefully, but tomorrow I will be using that extra hour or so I now have to create a better meal plan that I can have on the ready for days that I need to be out of the house, so that we can avoid accidental exposure to certain foods.
Oh and I was able to spray tan myself. That's huge. I must have complained to myself at least once a day that I never had time to even spray tan myself. I mean if I offer the service, I should represent right? I made it happen today.
I'm really liking this whole freedom thing from social media. I'm journaling every day now, and I feel less stressed. And as a bonus, journaling has not only offered free therapy, but has opened my mind to new ideas, as I talk through my day's activities. It has opened creative channels that were once closed. And I love creating. Especially musically...
All I do is win, win, win no matter what...drops mic.
