I’m writing this to myself, I’m just letting you in on it. I’m writing it as a reminder to myself to stay focused and stop getting distracted with things that don’t matter. In today’s world, it’s easy to get distracted, then blame the distractions on our shortcomings. Not me. That shit stops today. 

So far, in an attempt to avoid politics on social media, I downloaded a plugin for Chrome called “newsfeed eradicator” and it’s helped a lot. My job relies on me to be on social media. I have many groups, pages and people to support, and social media is the best, and easiest platform to do this on. I’ve had to create a system on there, that allows me to stay focused as much as I can. Removing the political posts has dramatically increased my happiness level on social media. 

Politics aren’t my only distraction though. People making bullshit claims about how great they are at helping people and making money kill me. Half the people’s ads I see online claiming “I’ll help you go from 0 to seven figures” don’t even know what it’s like to make 6 figures, let alone 7. 

For years now, I’ve been calling these types out. They don’t seem to be slowing down or going away no matter what efforts I put in to bring the truth. Because of this lack of slowdown, I’m just going to ignore it. I need to teach myself to ignore the BS. It’s not my job to correct or callout people who make the conscious decision to lie to the public. If the public falls for it, that’s on them. Not me.

I’ve always felt like it was my place to tell it like it is and save the public from working with “losers” but truth is, I can’t save everyone. Often times like attracts like anyway. If someone is promoting a lie, they will only attract other liars anyway, and I don’t want those folks, so it’s win win. 

A famous rapper once said “real G’s move in silence like lasagna” and it’s my time to be real, and just ignore the bullshit. If I focus all the time I spent calling out BS, on providing more content, programs and value, I’d have even more business than I do now. Today, I’m making the conscious decision to do better with my time, and serve my community better.

Sure, I’m well aware that I can’t hide or ignore all of the BS, but I can drastically cut down on it. I can’t ignore the trolls, and hate messages I get, but I can choose to not engage them. I can’t make everyone happy, but I can choose to make the ones I can, happy. I’m done with getting caught up with conversations that don’t pay my bills.

I’ll admit it. I tried and failed. They won. I tried to do my part to bring truth to the industry, but I don’t have time for that any more. The only lies I can control are the ones that come out of my own mouth, it’s not my job to correct someone else’s lies. Just because I made the decision not to lie, a long time ago, doesn’t mean I have to force that decision on someone else. If they want to lie, let them. It’s a free country. They have a choice to live with. Not me.