What are you Influenced By?
Melissa Mitchell | Personal Growth, Reality Check14 Apr 2010
I read an amazing post by Seth Godin this morning, called
Expose yourself…
And it really made me think..
One line he mentioned, said, “Expose yourself to get-rich-quick stories and you’ll want to become one.”
I loved that, as it fit right in with my last post, How do you know who to listen to?
So often, we find ourselves overwehelmed with message after message, about the next biggest thing, or what I have recently coined…
The One Week Wonder….
Just this morning, I was hit with three messages in skype…
They all were like this..
Hey, You have to see this next biggest thing.. You will never believe it, lock in your position now before launch, this is going to be huge… www.heresmylinktoallthehype.com
Now, you have to remember, I get “exposed” to this all day with what I do.. As many of you probably are as well. We all are on mailing lists, where we get bombarded with it all the time as well.. What you are exposed to, it is inevitable that we begin to see the same and feel the same.. I ask people all the time when they send me messages out of the blue like that to get to know me first, learn about me, as I will learn about them.. And everytime, I click on all their links, learn about them, and sure enough, they are in about three to four different opportunities and they don’t know which way to go… so they hit people with hyped up links all day.. and I wonder, how far does that get them?
I am an avid nutritional cleanser, I have to tell you, I lost 45 pounds in three months with nuritional cleansing.. How does that have ANYTHING to do with what I am talking about here?
I am going to put in place a technological cleanse today.. I am going to unsubscribe from all emails, companies, and lists that do nothing but expose me to unecessary hype. I want only high quality in my life…. Seth Godin’s email list is one, subscribe here: http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/subscribe.asp
I am going to spend the day cleansing my email box and raising the bar on the quality of work that I am exposed to!
What about you? Check out Seth’s blog… Subscribe… Be sure to subscribe to my list as well, as I am raising the bar on the quality I deliver..
To you and your Success,
Melissa Ann Mitchell
Tags: email lists, Personal Growth, quality, seth godin, Training
I agree. I’m going on a technological cleanse too! What a great idea. I don’t know how I get on so many email lists, and those bright shiny little emails are all so enticing too!
I decided to really purge out the hype. I only read and keep the high quality content. I am not missing out on anything, as the emails with they hype.. they come and go just as fast as the program they are promoting. I have made a real decision to only expose myself to work and material that truly develops me personally, with high quality content. It is so funny, no insult to anyone in a “system” but.. I can spot emails from packaged systems and auto responders from a mile away and am unsubscribing (is that even a word) to them RIGHT away.. I am keeping the unique ones, like Seth Godin and Selena Tention… and Phil Jackson.
Have a great day..
Melissa
That hype is sooo much everywhere. I have an old email account that has 14,000 emails like that! I guess it might be useful — I don’t know???
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We could all use a cleanse. You wouldn’t believe how many email accounts I have. It’s just human nature to want to see what were missing and maybe the next thing will make life easy.
The reality, is you already have it.
Thanks Mellisa!
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Awesome post as always Melissa!!
Aloha Melissa, I agree cleansing can make you lose weight and if we can apply to our mind and influences I guess it may have the same effect. With less garbage to think of or take in. Thanks for sharing! Lani
Ps..came across your info., thru Phil’s blog, glad I did. Come by and drop me a sweet note or tweet. Mahalo
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