Success is relative and is an inside job
Episode description
Instagram success is relative and is an inside job
Success is relative and deeply personal. My idea of success is going to be significantly different than anyone else’s because it is based on my context, experiences and judgements and that’s the way it should be.
BUT Due to our predilection for vicariously living through other people's lives we have become accustomed to what social media, television, and media manipulates us to define success.
Society has Warped our Perception.
From early childhood, we have learned from the collective amalgamation of humanity what it means to be successful. Whether it’s working in the right type of job, or the proper way to act, dress, speak - these ideas have been pushed on us daily and relentlessly.
Social media sharpens that perspective even further and engrains in our minds that success is based on
the nicest car
The biggest house
The most expensive clothes
And on and on around material possessions - anything short of that is FAILURE.
If you google “what does it mean to be successful” the immediate results depict and define success from the billionaires perspective, the actress in hollywood or the sports agent of some professional athlete, so this quickly becomes our barometer and our litmus for success, and to be frank with you - this is just skewed. Success is personal, it varies from individual to individual and is an inside job.
So how do we draw all that in for today’s episode about instagram? Well much like life, we have been taught that Instagram success means
we have to have massive followings,
huge number of likes and
monstrous accounts to are considered “influential” or successful.
But we have a different take on success on IG.
Yes IG is making it harder and harder to stand out, but that is also an offshoot of everybody trying harder and harder to stand out and in a sea of people trying to stand out, most of them all look the same. So how do you become successful?
- Develop your own style and be strategic about your content
- Finding your niche is important
- Stay in your lane
- It’s all about community
- The cascade fountain is always running