1897: Some Thoughts on Social Media by Randi Kay of Naturally Randi Kay on Mental Freedom

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🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Randi Kay of Naturally Randi Kay shares her thoughts on social media. Episode 1897: Some Thoughts on Social Media by Randi Kay of Naturally Randi Kay on Mental Freedom Randi Kay is on a mission to shift the health culture by educating and empowering you to make every area of life a healing opportunity. She would like to offer you knowledge and tangible tools to use to make self care a way of life. To make it a ritual and a practice as common as brushing your teeth. Self care isn't some fluffy spa treatment or some idea that stays in the land of hopes and dreams. It's real and available to you right now. And she's here to give you some guidance, support, and a place to start. The original post is located here: https://www.naturallyrandikay.com/post/some-thoughts-on-social-media Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1897, some thoughts on social media by RandyK of
0:06.4	naturallyrandyk.com and I'm Justin Mollick. Hope you're having a great Friday if you're listening
0:11.4	in real time and welcome back to Optimal Living Daily or the OLD podcast where I read to you from
0:16.8	some of the best blogs I can find and get permission from, mostly covering personal development
0:21.6	and minimalism on this show. For now let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
0:30.9	Some thoughts on social media by RandyK of naturallyrandyk.com
0:37.6	I recently had breakfast with a wonderful woman in town who told me that she's not on social media
0:43.4	at all. No Facebook page, no Twitter account, nothing. When hearing this, my initial reaction
0:50.5	surprised me. It was not shock but envy. I was envious of her freedom or what seemed like
0:57.6	freedom to me. No precious time wasted on mindless scrolling, no caring about what you were missing
1:03.2	out on, no pressure to curate a beautiful feed that encapsulates a certain vibe, no bombardment
1:09.6	of notifications. What a life. And it was with that reaction that it hit me. My relationship with
1:16.3	social media was getting way out of whack. Now I do love social media. I've always loved taking
1:23.1	photos and capturing moments. Social media is a great outlet for those captured moments,
1:28.0	a way to share them with the world. Before they would just stay, files on my hard drive were in
1:32.6	boxes of photos. And I love connecting with people all over the world and staying connected. Social
1:38.9	media has made it so easy to stay in contact with family, friends met while traveling or at conferences.
1:45.2	And can be a great way to meet new people that you can later connect with in person. But like all
1:50.5	things, it's easy for it to get out of balance. I've been thinking a lot lately about my relationship
1:56.6	with social media and if it's still a healthy one. And with this post, I invite you to do the same.
2:03.5	After my out of whack revelation, I started paying closer attention to my social media habits.
2:08.8	My day started and ended by checking social media. I would regularly interrupt my daily tasks to
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