The 6 steps you need to overcome the fear of social media and start taking your first steps:
1. Move towards fear:
In my previous article, I wrote about how wanting something to change is not enough and that you need to vote strongly in favor of change through your actions and be led by a strong desire to overcome the fear of social media and move toward the change you wish to see in yourself. So as long as you don’t quit, you don’t lose! And embracing and moving toward that fear then is the only choice left.
In this journey, you can sometimes feel sad or fearful with uncertainty, but the rewards of having crossed the threshold of that first are far greater than the fear of taking that first step.
2. Start from a place of ease.
I call these the islands of success. For every controlled success you achieve, there is a feeling of accomplishment, of having achieved something, and that is usually through simplicity over complexity. Introducing complexity early on in the piece can lead to feelings of overwhelm and ultimately giving up. So starting from a place of ease and in a safe space is needed for building on those islands of success and ultimately helping to overcome the fear of social media.
3. Making a choice:
This choice is about the immediate next step you need in your business to start. But here, there is something of a caution because sometimes the next step you think you need might end up being a way to talk yourself out of confronting your fears and, therefore, even further delaying the process of getting started. Starting before you are ready is something you would have heard of often, but by taking action, you make a choice. A choice to back yourself.
4. Creating a want list
Create a list of all the things that you really want. Set aside 10-15 minutes as I did, and write down what you really want your every day to look like. Because if your current to-do list does not reflect your want list, then it’s time to take action and reconfigure, recharge, and re-energize that to-do list so that you take control of your time and your to-do list rather than it taking control of you. This is an example of my own want list for you to emulate off of.
5. Creating a quit list to overcome the fear of social media
My quit list has a couple of things to make room for better habits to replace the bad ones. After all, if you want to make room for new things, letting go of some of the old stuff, like bad habits that are still filling the space, can help lighten the load when you just want to quit.
6. Creating a new to-do list:
What if I told you that if you are juggling it all and fearing the risk of burnout, then I am traveling in your shoes, my friend, because the struggle is real, and unless you acknowledge the need to change, you do not know what to change and what you are driving toward. I want you to feel deeply connected to your daily to-do list, which means everything you do needs to be on an engaged and energetic level and with a deep level of care. Taking control of your to-do list when you are just getting started and making space for new found visibility means making space to overcome the fear of social media.