You Can Instagram #Grind, but You Can’t Cheat the #Grind.
I love how easy you can share powerful messages today through social media. I usually share blog posts mainly through Facebook and Twitter, and the responses are often positive.
However, as I have written on the about page of this blog, social media can work negatively, especially nowadays when people seek the use of it to validate their statuses and identities. It brings comparison and frustration from made up photos, videos, and other unrealistic posts.
Unfortunately, the #Grind trend is suffering from that too. What supposed to be a powerful message of motivation is being twisted to meaningless attention-seeking posts. Going from positive enriching messages to annoying useless ones.
People are worrying about taking photos in the gym, in their offices, or of their healthy plate for lunch. However, they are not worrying about actually working harder in the gym, in the office, or in the diet.
Have you ever read or heard that famous quote from Frank Ocean, “work hard in silence, let your success be your noise”?
There is No Way Around It
You can post a photo of a book, but if you are not consistently reading, people will notice that in your interactions with them. You can post pictures of salads, but if you keep snacking candy before bed, your body will not change as you wish it did. You can use 1000 filters in the picture, but you will look in the mirror and see the reality.
As my mentors Jamie Gilbert and Joshua Medcalf have said, “the grind will give you exactly what you put in, not more, not less”. Therefore, shouldn’t you focus less on what others think?
It is a Concentration Crisis
It is just like when people did not know what tobacco did to lungs, or what fast food did to body health. It seems people simply jumped in the technological era we live in, and got hypnotized by it; it is obsolete to be intentional about focusing on actually doing something.
Tobacco causes lung cancer, bronchitis, and decreased bone density, among many other effects. Fast food causes obesity, affects the odd of heart attacks or strokes, and is linked to high levels of depression. Focusing on hashtags and not on evolving is causing people to lose precious time, be superfluous, have less education, preparation, and character for the long runs.
In the article In Defense Of Distraction published by Yale University Press, Sam Anderson wrote, “people who frequently check their e-mail have tested as less intelligent than people who are actually high on marijuana”. Can you imagine the ones on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter then? Consider that there are always updates on these platforms’ newsfeeds.
What To Do Then?
When you say yes to something, please say no to everything else. Train your concentration. Be present. Do what you are supposed to do. Then, your results, your growth, your commitment, your work ethic, and your character will be inevitably in higher levels.
Set times during the day to answer people on social media, to send or read emails, to watch videos on YouTube. Be disciplined in these areas too! It will help.
The bottom line is: If you are really grinding, you won’t have time, or you are not even going to remember to share your #Grind on social media.
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