Day 11 - Social Media Fast Recap

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1. 0:00Now, this is technically day 11 of my social media sabbatical.
2. 0:10I've been fasting for 10 and a half, about to be 11 days.
3. 0:15And let's recap.
4. 0:19This is photographer Jackson, Steve Jackson of Alien Eyes Photos Media.
5. 0:25And this is Alien Eyes Photos industry talk.
6. 0:29And I've did a 10 day series on my social media sabbatical.
7. 0:37So I've been fasting for now, going on 11 days.
8. 0:42Cheers, clap, claps.
9. 0:45Now let's do a quick recap.
10. 0:48Now day one, I talked about detoxing.
11. 0:52That's a good episode to listen to.
12. 0:55If you want to get rid of anything that's holding you back in your life,
13. 1:03whether that's physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally,
14. 1:08you know how we cling on things and things cling on to us.
15. 1:12We have to get rid of it.
16. 1:13We have to detox.
17. 1:14We have to declutter.
18. 1:16We have to freshen up, cut loose.
19. 1:20Now, as I started detoxing, I'm like, okay, what are my habits?
20. 1:25This is going to lead me back to this, where I have to detox again.
21. 1:29So day two, I checked my habits.
22. 1:32And us as creative entrepreneurs, we have to find our flow,
23. 1:39find the good habits.
24. 1:41And sometimes we have to let some bad habits go,
25. 1:45our old habits that no longer serve us.
26. 1:48And we have to learn new habits.
27. 1:51So that's a good episode about habits, giving you that good reminder.
28. 1:58Day three, after I detox and cut some bad habits
29. 2:05and gained some new habits and reading more, I had to do the work.
30. 2:15What is the work that I am not doing in a tiny manner
31. 2:20or focusing on fully?
32. 2:23Hmm.
33. 2:25I'm not doing it to 90 to 100%.
34. 2:29I need to get to that.
35. 2:3465, 70, 73.
36. 2:38No, it's not cutting it.
37. 2:4090 and above.
38. 2:41It's a passing grade.
39. 2:43Of course we may slip and do, you know, 84, 85%.
40. 2:49That's still decent.
41. 2:52But 90 to 100.
42. 2:54I want to give this 90 to 100% on anything and everything that I do,
43. 3:00no matter if I feel like I feel it now.
44. 3:03I made it to Vegas.
45. 3:05Here at BPcon and still going hard.
46. 3:10But it's just being around the hotel and the casino area.
47. 3:16It's just smoking as we had to go to our rooms.
48. 3:20We got lost.
49. 3:22Luggage handle broke.
50. 3:24It was just chaos.
51. 3:25We were really looking for a room.
52. 3:28We got 30 minutes checking in, had to go back other side.
53. 3:31They moved us, downgraded our room.
54. 3:34It was a lot of stuff.
55. 3:36But I'm not used to cigarettes smoking, being around it for long periods of time.
56. 3:42And it congested me.
57. 3:43So that's the reason I sound like this.
58. 3:48Even talking about the sound, day four, communicate.
59. 3:53Day four, I connect and communicated with many people that I haven't spoke to in months.
60. 4:04Some weeks, but months.
61. 4:08It was good.
62. 4:10It was fresh.
63. 4:11And it was long.
64. 4:13I had some good lengthy conversations.
65. 4:16So I got to connect and reconnect and communicate.
66. 4:21And that's what I focus on day four and the earlier stages of my social media sabbatical.
67. 4:30As I took it, everybody started hitting me up.
68. 4:33Like, oh man, I'm glad you're doing this.
69. 4:36I know it's a good time to find you or contact you because you're doing this and you can really focus on it.
70. 4:43So a lot of people took advantage of my social media sabbatical and contacted me personally through my phone line.
71. 4:53So yeah, I guess when I take my next social media sabbatical, you really need to talk to me or you need coaching one-on-one.
72. 5:02It's a good time to do that.
73. 5:04And day five, to help build all this out, we had to figure out a method, our SOPs, our systems, what worked for us.
74. 5:19So I focus on power of system.
75. 5:27The power of systems is crucial.
76. 5:31It's critical.
77. 5:33It is needed to keep you organized and also for your growth.
78. 5:40It would save lots of headaches on the back end.
79. 5:45Get your systems together, y'all.
80. 5:48Now, day six, as I'm kind of a little over the halfway mark at that point, you know, thinking about when I get back on social media,
81. 6:01I just wanted to send a reminder that be a producer of the content versus a consumer of the content.
82. 6:14Be a producer, not a consumer of the content, especially of the content for your industry and what drives the marketing and eyeballs to your business, your brand,
83. 6:31your personal brand as a creative entrepreneur.
84. 6:37Be a producer of the content, not a consumer.
85. 6:40Don't just scroll, scroll, and scroll up and down and like and da da da da da da da da.
86. 6:50Give yourself a limit. Yeah, there's a time for that.
87. 6:53Like me, two minutes, because I got a five-minute social media limit and I got to post to do this.
88. 7:03So one or two minutes, I may engage, I may like, but I'm not doing all this up and down scrolling no more.
89. 7:11You don't catch me in the first two seconds of scrolling.
90. 7:18That's all I have. I'm not going back to my old ways, my old habits.
91. 7:22I set a five-minute limit. And for the week, I think I've only been on social media 20 minutes as I was getting off.
92. 7:38And I'm like, well, let me see if I can do five.
93. 7:41So I've limited myself to five.
94. 7:46So when I get back on, I want to limit myself to five or less.
95. 7:52Maybe get on social media every other day once I get back on.
96. 7:57So we shall see. Day seven.
97. 8:02Are you satisfied? Are you satisfied with what you are doing?
98. 8:08What is your satisfaction? What keeps you satisfied?
99. 8:15How can you be satisfied? What drives you to satisfaction?
100. 8:24Day eight. Now, talk about being satisfied.
101. 8:31Day eight was about your perfect digital image or your digital image in general.
102. 8:37But perfect digital image, especially for the females.
103. 8:44They want to be beautified and perfect. Oh, I can't do this without makeup.
104. 8:49And comparing themselves to other females and creators.
105. 8:55Man to man to other man. I want to be like that.
106. 8:58I don't care how the ladies are the money, the cars, the house and women with the bodies and make all the other stuff on both sides.
107. 9:09Comparing or even a lifestyle and business and entrepreneurship.
108. 9:14Oh, I'm not there, but I want to be like them and their business and how they do things.
109. 9:20I'm not marking myself how they do it because it's successful with them, but you're not satisfied.
110. 9:26So go back one day, day seven. Satisfaction. I have my daughter with me. So that was a big one.
111. 9:33What keeps you satisfied? How can you be satisfied?
112. 9:38But your digital image is not always be perfect. Stop comparing yourself.
113. 9:45Live your journey. Document your journey. Be a producer, not a consumer.
114. 9:50See how it's all tied together?
115. 9:54Because day nine was about digital awareness.
116. 10:00Is it awareness?
117. 10:07Digital awareness.
118. 10:14That was a big one. I stumbled. I personally stumbled day nine.
119. 10:19It was late. I was.
120. 10:22Yeah, yeah, that's yeah.
121. 10:29Yeah. But I brought awareness to awareness and also digital awareness and evolution and how to kind of overcome that.
122. 10:43As I threw the alley from day nine to day ten.
123. 10:47To establish trust.
124. 10:52And people love working with people they know, like and trust.
125. 10:56But trust to me is one of the biggest.
126. 11:00The second would be love.
127. 11:03People may know you. People may not. People may not know me.
128. 11:07People may get to know me a little bit, but want to know more.
129. 11:12But if they don't trust me, they ain't gonna want to know more about me.
130. 11:16They ain't gonna love me. So they have to trust me.
131. 11:21So we spoke about how to establish trust in day ten and that was a good maybe my second favorite one.
132. 11:31I think habits was maybe my favorite one because it's a good reminder to myself what habits and new habits that I'm picking up.
133. 11:40Am I maintaining my habits? Can I approve of my habits?
134. 11:43I can't even make what I'm doing even better.
135. 11:49So I think habits was my first one day two out of all of them.
136. 11:54But getting this started would be detox day one.
137. 12:02That would be my top three. I recommend day two with habits.
138. 12:06Number two, day ten, establish trust.
139. 12:12And number three from my top three of my social media sabbatical episodes.
140. 12:18Day one, detox, because without the start, you can get rid of stuff.
141. 12:23A lot of this won't even matter because you would still be stuck in ways.
142. 12:29Day one and day two is perfect. If you don't listen to nothing else or follow anything else,
143. 12:33follow day one and day two, detox and going over your habits and follow it up with establish trust.
144. 12:43You'll be welling away to a million dollar day.
145. 12:47And I'm trying to get my million dollar day. I'm trying to get a million dollars in general.
146. 12:52So let's continue this path.
147. 12:55I'm on the path of my first six figures and then I'm going for my first million.
148. 13:01So. Help a brother out.
149. 13:05This is photographer Jackson, Steve Jackson of Alienize Photos.
150. 13:09Give me the recap of my ten day social media sabbatical.
151. 13:15And be sure to check out the book.
152. 13:19Ten day social media sabbatical by Stephen D Jackson.
153. 13:25Yes, I really did the work.
154. 13:26We are in a documented process.
155. 13:29I've actually included some personal stories, some even some helpful tips to go along with the episodes.
156. 13:38You know, give you a little more juice and meat for the look.
157. 13:44Yeah, take it in, digest it.
158. 13:48It's good. It's nourishing as we detox with habits and doing nowhere to connect and communicate
159. 13:54the power of systems produced, not consumed.
160. 14:00Are you satisfied? What is your satisfaction?
161. 14:05Oh, your perfect digital image online, digital awareness and established trust.
162. 14:13That is day one through day ten.
163. 14:16And I will give you a little bit more talking about what I've learned,
164. 14:22giving you my results, the back end and behind the scenes.
165. 14:28And a little tidbit on how I'm going to build out the course that pairs with the book.
166. 14:34That one is going to be major.
167. 14:36Hopefully I have this done by the end of this year, if not early next year.
168. 14:41Got a few projects, client collaborations I'm doing.
169. 14:47Two more conferences here in Vegas, BPCON as I do this recap of my social media sabbatical.
170. 14:56This is day 11, y'all.
171. 14:58I ain't loving it.
172. 15:00All right, but I got to attend to these duties in this conference and drink some more tea.
173. 15:07Man, I can't believe this.
174. 15:09Golly.
175. 15:12But I made it, y'all.
176. 15:16Ten days, ten days social media sabbatical.
177. 15:19Check out my documented process.
178. 15:23Check out the whole series, day one through day ten of my social media sabbatical.
179. 15:29Take your own social media sabbatical, even if it's one day.
180. 15:35Try it out and then try it for a week.
181. 15:37I'm used to doing a week, twice a year.
182. 15:42This time I did ten days.
183. 15:45Yay, look what I did.
184. 15:46I made progress.
185. 15:47I was more productive, focused, and I love that I enjoyed my time away from social media.
186. 15:54But I'll be back probably tonight.
187. 15:57I'll be getting on tonight.
188. 15:59So yeah, this is day 11.
189. 16:03To recap my social media fast.
190. 16:06Again, this is photographer Jackson, Steve Jackson of Alien Eyes Photos Media.
191. 16:12And this is another episode of Alien Eyes Photos Industry Talk.
192. 16:19And I am your go-to event photographer.
193. 16:23So if you want to book me for an event or conference or workshop or if you're a creative entrepreneur starting off,
194. 16:34you want to book me as a coach and let's have some ideation sessions and build a strategy for both.
195. 16:42Booking me as a photographer or for video production or a coach.
196. 16:48One of the three or even more.
197. 16:50I do a lot, but those are my three pillars.
198. 16:55You can visit alieneyesphotos.com.
199. 16:59Again, that's Alien Eyes with a Z.
200. 17:03Photos with a S.
201. 17:06Alieneyesphotos.com.
202. 17:08And that's eyes like your eyeballs.
203. 17:11And then you can also follow me as I'll be on tonight.
204. 17:15Hopping back on at Alien Eyes Photos.
205. 17:19That's Alien Eyes Photos.
206. 17:22Again, that's Alien Eyes with a Z.
207. 17:25Photos with a S.
208. 17:27On all social media.
209. 17:31And again, this is Alien Eyes Photos Industry Talk.
210. 17:35This has been a great one.
211. 17:38Ten days of social media fasting.
212. 17:42This is my social media sabbatical y'all.
213. 17:45We did it.
214. 17:46We made it.
215. 17:47Another one in the books.
216. 17:49Peace.