Day 7 Review, Review, Review – 2013 Revisited

I find that going through this 30 day journey for a second time has given me some additional insights into what I need to do to be successful and the things that I am doing that are hindering me from that success. One of the main things, is that I need to review at the end of each week or another way to say it is to Reflect on my last weeks activities.

Enjoy your weekend and I’ll see you all on Monday! I’m looking forward to also posting another blog regarding the  ”4 Hour Work Week“   and  “Sleeping Your Way to the Top” this weekend. So enjoy!

Profile PicLes Adkins is the CEO of Orange SMS Consulting and an International Social Business Strategist, speaker, consultant and author. Bringing strategy and whole brain thinking to creative campaigns and social media through his work. Please follow @mysylbert and connect on LinkedIn Join us on FB and Google+ as well.

(Original Post - October 12, 2011)

So my Day 7 was actually on October 7th, which was a Friday. If you are following this 30 day journey, I believe I mentioned that I’m only writing articles/blogs to support the journey Monday through Friday. My daily log/diary can be found on my business page “Orange SMS Consulting”

So Review, Review, Review. I recommend doing this every Friday, or weekend, or at the end of your week. Here are the things you should be reviewing for your weekly activity so far:

  1. Do you have an organized environment?
  2. Did you look at your goals, everyday, Mon-Fri?
  3. Did you make 10 to 20 new contacts per day?
  4. Did you follow-up with the contacts you made to set up a meeting, or offer advice that may be helpful to their job, business or life?
  5. Did you read, or listen to material that motivates you?
  6. Did you try to live without worry?
So you should review at the end of every week, whether that is Friday or Saturday for you.
The above is just a short list that we will expand as our 30 day journey continues. URGENT NOTE about the week review: “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”! 

What that means is – Don’t worry about what you didn’t get done or if you missed a follow-up, or you came up short of 50 to 100 new contacts. There is always next week. At the beginning of your new week, always start fresh! Don’t carry things over (with the exception of the follow-up). Start at 0 for new contacts.

LifeI am explaining how to start fresh, because for me it has become overwhelming to carry certain things into the new week and at some point you freeze. We are trying to help you avoid being overwhelmed, stressed and then freeze. This way you can live outside of the Comfort Zone!

Just remember at the end of each week,

Review, Review, Review!

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Day 4 Follow Up – 2013 revisited

So today a couple of crazy things happened. Apparently I published a blank blog that said “Day 4″ Not sure how that happened. I did go to WP to start this blog but I didn’t hit publish so not sure what happened there. I’m blaming it on technology or as I tell my dad it probably was user error. I’ll tell you that story another time.

The second thing happened while I was asleep. I had an epiphany regarding this 30 day journey. I come from  a learning background so I should have realized this earlier. The only true way to accomplish this 30 day journey is to spend a week to 21 days on each task until it becomes a habit. So my recommendation is to take each of these tasks or suggestions and implement them one at a time for a period of time that allows you to add this to your routine. Then and only then will you be able to create the life style of living outside the comfort zone.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERALes Adkins is the CEO of Orange SMS Consulting and an International Social Business Strategist, speaker, consultant and author. Bringing strategy and whole brain thinking to creative campaigns and social media through his work. Please follow @mysylbert and connect on LinkedIn Join us on FB and Google+ as well.

Below is the original blog and this one is vital to any successful business strategy!

(Original Post)

Follow UpSo what do we mean when say “Follow Up”  The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines “follow-up” as:

1. to follow with something similar, related, or supplementary

2. to maintain contact with (a person) so as to monitor the effects of earlier activities or treatments

3. to pursue in an effort to take further action

Yesterday we talked about making 10 to 20 new connections per day Monday through Friday. Or at least making sure you are making 50 to 100 new connections per week. One last quote about connections.

Your mother taught you everything you need to know about connecting before you were 10 years old: Make friends, play nice, tell the truth, take a bath, do your homework. –Jeffrey Gitomer “Little Black Book of Connections”

So you’ve made all these new connections and now what do you do? Well the answer is “follow-up”. Here are a few ways you can follow-up.

  • Connect with them on Social Media (LinkedIn is the easiest way for business)
  • Follow up with a phone call to schedule a coffee or lunch
  • Follow up with an email saying how much you enjoyed meeting them.
  • Follow up with a text asking to meet for coffee or lunch
Will Corente has 5  Rules for Building Successful Connections. These are worth repeating here regarding follow-up.
  1. “It’s about each of you. Whether you are connecting with one person or a group of people, it is important to consider the needs and objectives of each person or party involved and to seek win-win solutions. Effective connecting at its core is about is about helping each other seize opportunities, entrepreneurs and business people are more apt to help you reach your goals if they know you will do the same.”
  2. “Follow-up Within 24 Hours - If you enjoyed making a connection or see potential for a relationship to develop, show the connection that meeting them was important to you by reaching out within 24 hours via phone, email or text. I find a simple note saying it was great to meet them, offering next steps of communication and an offer of to be of assistance if they need it is a great relationship builder.”
  3. “Once in Touch, Stay In Touch – Every successful relationship in your life is built over time and through multiple interactions and communications. Once you have made the initial connection it is imperative that you follow up, stay in touch and check-in to keep the lines of communication open. If you live or work close by, a brief coffee meeting is an excellent relationship builder with your connections.”
  4. “Be a Giver – People who excel at connecting give advice or assistance first and ask for assistance second. Offer your advice, counsel or assistance on a matter, offer an introduction to a friend or business associate who can help them as a way to show you care about their future success as much as your own.”
  5. Have a Long Term View – Great connectors know that the next great partnership, introduction or synergy could be just around the corner and that developing relationships with everyone they meet regardless of the immediate benefit is the key to long term success and relationship building. Some of my best connections and synergies have been 20 years in the making.
So it is important to be persistent. I can’t tell you how many times my persistence has paid off in landing a client or developing that business relationship that provides the next big step for my business. Also what do you do if you have not contacted them within 24 hours. Well 2 things:
  1. Start now with every new connection contacting them within 24 hours.
  2. Go ahead and start following up with past connections that you may have lost contact with. Even if it has been over a year. Remember you are starting fresh.
Whatever you do, don’t give up and think that they won’t be interested in hearing from you because it has been too long.  The majority of sales people fail because of poor follow-up. Whether you are building a business, a non-profit or just trying to make connections “Follow Up” is the most important aspect of next steps. (We’ll go into more detail on Next Steps in the following weeks)
Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way! You need to Lead with meeting people, Follow up with them quickly and consistently and Get Out of the Way of your success to live outside of the “Comfort Zone”
New Quote not in the original blog: Wake Up, Show Up, Follow Up or in other words Get off your Ass and Do something!!!
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Day 3: Make 10 to 20 New Contacts Per Day- revisited 2013

So today I’m writing about Day 3 in this 30 day journey revisited. As I go through this journey for a second time I do see where I could have done better on following my own advice. There is some value in revisiting a plan and making adjustments or committing to follow through. And this time I am committing myself and my business to follow through. The original post was written on 10/5/2011. You’ll notice the shout out to Steve Jobs family.  I find through my consulting business and personal life that if we look at what doesn’t seem to work it is usually because we are leaving a step out or trying to find a short cut due to our perceived lack of time. Thank you again for joining this journey with me. May we both find success in 2013. Oh and here are my 2013 goals that I promised from my last Day 2 blog “Goals”

Les Adkins Business and Personal Goals for 2013

Les AdkinsLes Adkins is the CEO of Orange SMS Consulting and an International Social Business Strategist, speaker, consultant and author. Bringing strategy and whole brain thinking to creative campaigns and social media through his work. Please follow @mysylbert and connect on LinkedIn Join us on FB and Google+ as well.

(Original Post)

ContactsSo today I am talking about Day 3: Making 10 to 20  new contacts per day Monday through Friday

I first want to wish Steve Jobs  family my personal condolences and use his passing as an example for the reason to make new contacts daily and with whomever you want to.

I am currently writing a book regarding Social Media and how it is changing the business environment and the world. I wanted to have two interviews in the book and one of them was Steve Jobs. Unfortunately I personally will never get his innovative and creative opinion on how Social Media is changing the world.  This is my fault. Several months ago I thought about adding these interviews and I have been procrastinating trying to contact him. Now I might have never gotten the opportunity, but I did not even try.

What does this have to do with making 10 to 20 new contacts a day. Just to let you know that contacts can be anyone and your imagination is your only limitation as to who that contact may be.

There are several helpful resources in helping you make those 10 to 20 New contacts per day. 

1. LinkedIn

2. “Networking Like a Pro”  You can also purchase the book by Ivan Misner, David Alexander and Brian Hillard.

3. Networking Events. No matter where you are there are many Networking Events taking place. If you have trouble check out your local Chamber of Commerce or just google “Networking Events (put your city or neighborhood here)”

4. FB, Meetups, Twitter, Google+ (Hangouts)

OK so why do you need to make 10 to 20 new contacts per day? Just imagine that at the end of each week you have 50 to 100 new contacts and if you only get 1% of those to introduce you to your next client or become a client you end up having 1.5 new clients per week. So you can’t have 1/2 a client (although I have had some) so let’s say 1 or 2. At the end of  6 months you would have 12 to 24 new clients. Now it is up to you to determine the dollar value of that new client but you get the picture.

Some of you are saying that you have too many people to follow-up with so how do you make 10 to 20 new contacts per day. Well, let me tell you. I know we live in a busy world and some days you just can’t make 10 to 20 new contacts. So instead of not making the contacts at all, make it a weekly goal. Usually you can get 50 to 100 new contacts by attending 2 Network Events a week.

Hope that helps. There are several tools and companies that would also help you do this if you have the resources. But if you don’t, in this new technological world you can do it yourself and usually those contacts you make yourself will be more value than if you are paying a company to push leads to you.

So in order to live outside the “Comfort Zone” you have to do things a little differently than the rest of the Population. If it was easy and didn’t involve some work. Everyone would be doing it.

Life

One last note: Make sure you contact anyone you think of. By trying to contact those you think are unreachable you may be surprised by your results.

{Be Sure to Visit Tomorrow for Day 4 “Follow Up”}

10 Reasons to Use Social Media

smiley face winkSo it’s 2013 and Social Media is everywhere. I have even started a daily tip on Twitter @mysylbert Apologies for the shameless plug but I had a goal of 2000+ followers in 90 days which has turned into a little longer so I need all the help I can get. Thanks for the follow if you are so inclined.

Working with businesses here in the US and Internationally I hear this statement a lot “Well we are using Social Media but we are not seeing the results we would like to see”, which keeps me in business by the way, but I  always ask the question WHY? Why are they using social media and you would be surprised at the number of directors and CEO’s of large well-known companies that can’t answer that question. So below I have decided to state the Top 10 Reasons to Use Social Media (in my humble opinion). For business or for individuals.

3000072-poster-road-map-poster_010. To Get Noticed: Whether you are a business or an individual and you want to get your name out there the best way to do this is through Social Media. Search Engines love Social Media.

9. Marketing: There has been a lot written and said about Social Media Marketing and although you should never look at Social Media as a new Marketing channel (it doesn’t work) you should enhance your marketing through Social Media. “Content is the Fire, Social Media is the Gasoline” Jay Baer

8. Real Time News: Now you have the ability to have real-time news with video from around the world without having a large group of paid journalists and travel expenses. (and I studied journalism-so journalists don’t hate). Anyone with a smart phone can report the news. Look at all the news related items coming out of the Middle East, US and literally every major country in the world. The ability to get news right away has never been more easy than through social media.

7. Relationships: Finding long-lost friends and family. Reconnecting with old school friends or work colleagues. We live in an age where, if they are on social media, you can reconnect with them and develop close ties again or just keep in touch. This is great for sales and also if you are looking for a job. social_connections

6. Innovation: I believe this is one of the biggest breakthroughs that social media has allowed companies, that use it correctly, to accomplish. You can now innovate your products and services by asking the users what they want and adapting to their wants and needs rather than guessing or holding expensive focus groups.

5. Collaboration: Business, Science. News and Education are just a few of the industries who are now using social media to collaborate with others  on projects that normally might have been done in a vacuum. Two minds are greater than one, with social media you can now have dozens, hundreds, thousands or more all working toward a common cause or project.

4. Sales: If your sales team is not using Social Media to gain new leads and find new business then you are missing out on a great opportunity. Social Media allows you to find new business opportunities, who the decision maker is, and what companies are looking for. If you don’t believe me Google Social Media Sales. “You can really get to know his or her needs through social listening. It’s a great way to research a market and initiate conversation leading to a sale.” Janet Fouts

3. Finding the Right Talent: Although there are a lot of people in the job market it is still hard for companies to find the right people that will move their organization forward. With social media you can search in specialty groups and also have a broader reach when you need to fill a position. Finding the right person for the job is right at the tip of your digital fingers.

2. Information: Causes, Companies and people in general have always wanted to get information out to their peers, prospects, and the general public. We always tell anyone we are working with that the information has to add value to their audience. This works for businesses, organizations and everyone who is putting out information. Including my blog. But now with one click you can send out information to millions of people around the world. Just be careful that it is the right information. (Your audience will decide this for you).

And drummmm rollllll please!!!!!

Social Media Connection1. To Stay In Business: Socialnomics and Infographics have stated that 40% of Fortune 500 companies will no longer be in business in 10 years. This is due to their inability to adapt to the new consumer, business or audience. So whether you are a business, church, nonprofit or individual you need to be using social media if you want to still be relevant and viable in the next 10 years.

Profile PicLes Adkins is the CEO of Orange SMS Consulting and an International Social Business Strategist, speaker, consultant and author. Bringing strategy and whole brain thinking to creative campaigns and social media through his work. Please follow @mysylbert and connect on LinkedIn Join us on FB and Google+ as well.

Are You Too Busy To Blog?

Are you familiar with the story of the children whose father was a Cobbler and they went without shoes? Well there are several people who own or run businesses that use this story. It’s a great story but at the end of the day it’s just an excuse. I can say this, because I have been using this story myself and realized that it was a Gigantic excuse.

There is some truth in this because business owners are busy and they sometimes neglect their own business working with customers/clients. But it is still an excuse. Doug Grady writes in his book “The Ripple Effect” that one of his statements his dad taught him was “Do It Anyway” even if you don’t think you can or if you don’t have the time.

I realized recently that the last Blog I wrote was on June 20th. For you mathematically challenged that was a little over 2 months ago. This week I was facilitating one of the training’s I do for NetApp in Brazil and a few of them said that the information they were getting may not be relevant for their country. I went into explaining why this is an excuse to do something outside their comfort zone. The course helps technical people move from the technology conversation to the business conversation. Moving from speaking technonese to speaking business strategy. They were trying to use “it may be different in my company” as an excuse as to not use the information they were learning. (It worked itself out when I said just use the information but in your style). But I digress…

I use the example above as a case to show that all of us find reasons and excuses for not doing something new or not doing the things we know to do that will make us successful. My company helps organizations grow their business by providing guidance using social media and how to create a “Social Business Strategy” customized to their organization.

The point or the “So What” for this Blog is simple. I am no longer going to allow myself or anyone in my business to use the story of the Cobbler as a reason for not doing what we need to do, to allow our business to grow. In other words:

So the next time someone tells you the story of the Cobbler and his children with no shoes because he was busy making shoes for other children. Just smile and remember that from this day forth. You and I are living by the motto “No More Excuses”.

Important Note: No one is saying this will not be hard, anything worth doing is.

Be on the look out for more blogs from me on a more consistent basis.

Greetings from Sao Paulo Brazil:

Les Adkins is the CEO of  Orange SMS Consulting and an International Social Business Strategist, speaker, consultant and author. Bringing strategy and whole brain thinking to creative campaigns and social media through his work. Please follow @mysylbert and connect on LinkedIn Join us on FB and Google+ as well.

Day 30: Review, Review, Review and LIve, Live, Live!

Congratulations on Making it through the 30 day journey to Live Life Outside the Comfort Zone. Here is a song just for you. If you haven’t made it yet keep moving forward.

So what do you do now? Well as the song says “Live Like You Were Dying”! And your saying OK, OK but really what do I do now. Well here is a few things to remember: First go back to the list of the past 30 days:

  1. Day 1: Organization
  2. Day 2: Goals
  3. Day 3: Make 10 to 20 Contacts Per Day
  4. Day 4: Follow Up
  5. Day 5: Motivation
  6. Day 6: Stop Worrying and Start Living
  7. Review, Review, Review 
  8. Day 8 & 9: Prioritize for the Next Week
  9. Day 8 & 9: Prioritize for the Next Week (not a typo; just matching days with #’s)
  10. Day 10: Develop 30 second commercial
  11. Day 11: Visualization 
  12. Day 12: Live To Learn
  13. Day 13: Get Out There
  14. Day 14: Blog, Blog, Blog
  15. Day 15: Volunteer
  16. Day 16: Rest
  17. Day 17: Focus
  18. Day 18: Branding Yourself and Your Business
  19. Day 19: Productive Meetings
  20. Day 20: Go Against the Norm
  21. Day 21: The Power of One
  22. Day 22: Don’t Give Up
  23. Day 23: Break That TV Addiction, NOW
  24. Day 24: Whole Brain Approach
  25. Day 25: What Did I Do Wrong
  26. Day 26: Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda…
  27. Day 27: Getting Back To My Roots – Digital Presence
  28. Day 28: Specifically, What Are You Trying to Do
  29. Day 29: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
  30. Day 30: Review, Review, Review and Live, Live, Live

Then see what has changed and what is the same. And don’t worry if you have not achieved every single thing that is on the list. Take them in groups or even one at a time. Remember it takes 21 to 30 days to create a habit!

For me my life has gotten more fulfilling and busier in a very good way. As my friend Denise O’Brien said in one of her Facebook posts;

“I love my life”

My next goal is to accomplish living a life with the principles behind the 4-hour work week. Don’t worry I will share.

So thank you for joining this adventure with me. And remember that the adventure is never over as you continue to “Live a Life Outside the Comfort Zone”.

Les Adkins is the CEO of  Orange SMS Consulting and an International Social Media Strategist, speaker, consultant and author. Bringing strategy and whole brain thinking to creative campaigns and social media through his work. Please follow @mysylbert and connect on LinkedIn Join us on FB as well.

 

Day 28: Specifically What Are You Trying To Do

So I woke up on Day 28 with this question in my head, “What am I trying to do, specifically?”

I started this 30 day journey on October 1, 2011 and I am now on day 28. I’ve talked about and implemented Organization, Goals, Making more contacts per day, Follow up, Motivation, Failure, Success, How to Not Worry, How to Push on, Developing a 30 second commercial, Review, Review, Review.

So why today did I have the question in my head “What am I trying to do”? My business is improving, my life is getting better and more fulfilled. But I realized that even though I have my goals and Life is Moving Outside the Comfort Zone for me, what, actually am I trying to do?

Then all of a sudden this video came across my computer. It’s a little long but worth watching.

So did you hear him?

Disney, CNN, MTV, Hyatt, Burger King, FedEx, Microsoft, Apple, Texas Instruments, 20th Century Fox, Gillette, AT&T, IBM, Merck, Hershey’s, Eli Lilly, Coors, Bristol-Myers, Sun, Amgen, Autodesk, Adobe, BMC, EA (Electronic Arts), Fortune Magazine, GE and HP (Hewlett Packard)

Perspective – Crisis Can Be Good

With some of my colleagues and the people I have networked with over the last three years there seems to be two things that are happening.

One: though they started a business, they are now going back to work for someone else or are focused on looking for a “job”.

Two: They are struggling or they have gone the other way and are wildly successful but either way they are pushing on.

There is a Third Party; they are the one’s blaming the economy for why they are not doing well in either looking for work or with their business.

So where are you? I am not judging anyone here, you might have had to go back to work because you just can’t seem to get ahead or you are lucky enough to have the support and finances to continue moving forward with your business. Either way you have answered the question of “What Are You Trying to Do?”.

So that’s the key, you need to decide on what it is you are trying to do. As the list above shows success comes from crisis. To get to success you have to fail a lot in order to reinvent yourself. So keep reinventing yourself.

WIN LIKE YOU ARE USED TO IT

LOSE LIKE YOU ENJOY IT

Les Adkins is the CEO of  Orange SMS Consulting and an International Social Media Strategist, speaker, consultant and author. Bringing strategy and whole brain thinking to creative campaigns and social media through his work. Please follow @mysylbert and connect on LinkedIn

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Day 26: Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda…

You ever have those days or moments when you look back and wish you had done something different? Moved in a different direction? Or gone through a different door?

And if you had, how would your life, career or relationships  be different? If you had made that investment in Microsoft when they looked like hippies you would be a millionaire now. If you had just married that girl/guy whose family had money, you wouldn’t be struggling now.

I’m sure each one of you can think of something that you wish you Woulda, Shoulda or Coulda done to change your life or circumstances. Too many times in life we dwell on the What IF’s, how it could have been if only….

You may even have someone in your life who constantly reminds you of the things you should have done.  This reminds me of a great song:

….Regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again too few to mention. I did what I had to do, I saw it through without exemption…. Ol’Blue Eyes

So what does all this mean?

I’M HERE TO TELL YOU, YOU CAN’T GO BACK! SO DON’T TRY!

Have you ever heard the statement: “…if I don’t tell you who will? I’m only pointing this out because I care about you”

They may mean well, but it doesn’t help you move forward. You can’t go back and change it. So why listen to it?

Dale Carnegie tells about the great philosopher Marcus Aurelius, who ruled the Roman Empire and summed up life in eight words-

Our Life Is What Our Thoughts Make It

If someone in your life keeps pointing out your mistakes and reminding you of them you need to find a way to move beyond that person. If they are family do it in a loving way.

So get rid of your Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda’s and Live Your Life Outside the Comfort Zone!

Les Adkins is the CEO of  Orange SMS Consulting and an International Social Media Strategist, speaker, consultant and author. Bringing strategy and whole brain thinking to creative campaigns and social media through his work. Please follow @mysylbert and connect on LinkedIn

 

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Day 25: What Did I Do Wrong?

So I hope everyone had a great weekend! Now getting back to our 30 day journey. If you started your daily journey when I did (October 1, 2011) you have completed your journey and have a focused outlook and more definition around:

Living Life Outside the Comfort Zone

But if you just joined us or started your journey somewhere in the middle you are still on your journey and following these Monday through Friday daily blogs.

So it is now Day 25, What did I do Wrong? As an international sales trainer and speaker  I focus on several things when speaking to audiences. But when discussing Sales I focus on two big things when you are in a meeting with a prospect.

#1. Executives and business people are too busy to meet with you just for the heck of it. So if you set a meeting there is something your company offers that they are interested in.

#2 If you don’t close the prospect (get the sale) one of three things has happened.

  • You did not show the value of what you were offering to their business.
  • Your service or solution did not meet their needs.
  • And the BIG One – They did not trust you or felt that you could not implement the services or solution that you were offering.

So I recently had a big presentation. I did the discovery meeting (the initial meeting where you discover what their needs are), and I did a ton of research on their industry, their competitors, and even talked with local store managers.

But- Guess What? They did not buy!

So what did I do wrong? That’s what I need to figure out for myself.

Did I not build the trust?

Did I understand the individual needs?

Did I not show the value?

Whatever it was I was asked to come back in a year. So as you can guess I was pretty bummed. But when I told one of my colleagues about what happened they made the statement:

Well at least you were able to present to them.

I thought about that and realized he was right. At least I got the chance to present to them and maybe down the road they will move toward needing or wanting the services I have available.  One of the main things is I got in front of them, many companies and sales people don’t even get the chance.

So what did I learn? I may not win every single company that I present to, but at least I was given the chance. And who knows what happens down the road.

As in life, and as in business you need to enjoy and learn from the journey. It makes you better, stronger and allows you to improve. If you won every one, you would never take a hard look at yourself and your company and ask.

HOW CAN I MAKE IT BETTER!

So you must always continue the journey! And always ask the question. “What Did I Do Wrong?” and then turn right around and ask “What Can I Do Better the Next Time?”!

Les Adkins is the CEO of  Orange SMS Consulting and an International Social Media Strategist, speaker, consultant and author. Bringing strategy and whole brain thinking to creative campaigns and social media through his work. Please follow @mysylbert and connect on LinkedIn

 

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Day 23: Break That TV Addiction! NOW!

So was it true when your mother told you that TV will rot your brain?

I don’t know about you but I grew up with TV.  I sat in a room called the TV Room. It had a couch, pillows, blocks (that is what we used for pillows back then as kids) and a big TV in the front of the room.

My parents watched the Lawrence Welk Show

Hee Haw

Oh yes the “Good Ol Days” as they say. But if you are under the age of 30 you may have never even heard of these shows.  Thus the need for the videos above.

Now a days there are videos, games and reality shows.  As well as the new one’s Pan Am, Once Upon A Time and Grimm. Plus when I was little there were 4 channels. ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS. Now, depending on the service you have, you can get anywhere from 500 to over 1000 when you start talking HD and now you can watch 3D Movies At Home. So if you are not careful you can spend all day and night watching TV.

Here are a couple of hints to turn off the TV:

  • Plan it: Pick the shows you want to watch and put that on your schedule. Make sure you only watch those shows. (Channel flipping is a killer of time)
  • Don’t Watch Reruns: If you’ve seen the show previously don’t sit there and watch it again. You have better things to do with your life
  • Don’t Put the TV in a Prominent Position in the Room: Don’t design a room around a TV. Don’t make the TV a focal point. Put it off in the corner or up on a wall away from the center of the room. (This will help make not watching TV a more comfortable activity if you have to work to watch.)
  • Plan other activities during your normal TV Watching Time: If you watch TV at night. Plan on getting your emails or social media posts done in the evening. If you watch in the afternoon decide to go on a walk instead or go to your local coffee-house and read a book.
  • Health Risk: Sitting down watching lot’s of television can cause weight gain and also stress.

In order for you to “Live Life Outside the Comfort Zone” you have to “Turn Off the TV”

Here’s a little video to help you do this.

So Get Up, Get Out, and Get Moving. And TURN OFF THE TV ALREADY

 

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