This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1356, how to consume social media mindfully by Jennifer

of SimplyFearcely.com and I'm Justin Mollick. Welcome to an award-winning podcast, thanks to you,

where blogs are narrated to you for free with permission from the websites, covering personal

development, minimalism, and more. And now yesterday we talked about Facebook addiction.

This is sort of a continuation from that in a way, talking about using it more mindfully,

so with that, let's jump right into our post and start optimizing your life.

How to consume social media mindfully by Jennifer of SimplyFearcely.com

Mindfulness is focusing on the present moment and being fully engaged in what's going on in the

now, instead of being distracted or somewhere else based on what may be going on in your mind.

It's being able to recognize and pull your mind's focus back into the present moment when it

begins to wander off, like it's so often likes to do. Mindfulness is still a work in progress for

me and likely will always be, but I think just being aware of mindfulness and its power is a great start.

Over time and with consistent practice, mindfulness is something that I hope will become second nature.

A challenge I have found with mindfulness though, is that social media makes it a really hard concept,

as someone who has an online business and constantly needs to be on social media wise.

I sometimes struggle with this, but this is the age we live in, right? So how do we make it work?

Here are some ways I came up with to be more mindful in the social media age.

Number one, don't use social media every day. Instead of having to show your everyday life

every single day on Instagram stories or Snapchat, why not give people a glimpse once a week?

Doesn't need a day to share videos instead of it being an everyday thing, because if you are

sharing nearly every moment of every day, how are you ever truly living in the moment and being mindful?

Number two, don't engage with social media first thing.

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