What’s Inside Your Brain?

How You Used to Be

I teach a lot of golf. I’m currently in line to get my Class A PGA certification in March, this is in addition to starting a marketing company.

Sometimes, I have doubts about whether I will be able to accomplish everything I am striving to do in life. I remember never having self-doubts when I was a kid. So it confused me as to why I have doubts now. What changed? I was on top of the world growing up. Probably the happiest most energetic, perhaps too much, kid you would meet. I am by no means sad or depressed now, but why do I have doubts?

Start Observing

On Tuesday, I was teaching a junior clinic for The First Tee. I made it a point to observe each kid very carefully. I watched how they interacted with each other and by themselves. What were they thinking in certain situations? If they hit a bad shot, did they get down on themselves? Embarrased?

What I realized was that they just wanted to play. They just wanted to have fun. If they hit a bad shot, it was on to the next one. No other kids cared what the other was doing or how bad they were messing up.

Inside My Brain

I came to the conclusion that the reason why most people have self-doubts is because of outside perception. As a kid, nobody was saying you couldn’t do something. Nobody was questioning your ideas, your goals. I have my ideas and goals questioned all the time. Why should I let that effect me? I didn’t have self-doubts when I was younger, why should I now?

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This is Social Media. Are You?

This is How You Connect

Connecting with people on social networking sites is the point of social networking (obvious, I know). These connections create value for you as a person and/or for your brand. The people who understand this value not only garner a large following, but positively affect other people’s lives. Take for example, Chris Brogan, notice how he is interacting with people? He abides by the 12 – 1 rule, which allows him to create relationships with other people and at the same time, easily promote his services through these connections. If he was only talking about himself, how many connections would he make? How many people would tune him out?

This is NOT How You Connect

You would be surprised by how many people do not know how to use social networking sites. The name does have “social” and “networking” in it, so the tools should be obvious, right? Well using social networking sites like this is not the right way. They may have a large following, but there isn’t anything “social” going on here. Which begs the question, how much business do they attract from their twitter page? I’ll leave it up to you to decide.

Find the Balance

You know what social networking looks like, and you know what it doesn’t. Find the right balance for yourself. But remember, the more interactions the better. As you can see, my Twitter page reflects that I am social media, are you?