Step 2: Relinquish siege mentality

The amount of information that’s available to every individual in the twenty-first century is extraordinary. Emails, texts, phone calls, LinkedIn messages, webinars, tweets, television and podcast shows, YouTube videos, books, newspapers, live audio rooms, radio.

You can literally bombard your mind with so much information that it feels as though there were no space at all for you.

Engagement with all of this information creates an artificial feeling of busyness. At different times in my life, I have almost under attack by information, which can create a near siege mentality to develop.

Living with a siege mentality dampens creativity and robs you of the capacity to really enjoy genuine and meaningful work. It keeps you constantly busy without any real outcomes.

From a visibility perspective, it gets you into a hustle mindset because you’re looking for behaviour that will match the frenetic state of your nervous system.

Anything more easeful feels wrong because your nervous system is on full alert, looking for experiences that match that.

From a practical standpoint, when you do take action, you focus on short term gains rather than creating longer term solutions that’ll allow you to operate with ease. And those short term gains only last so long. So eventually you have to take more short term action which means you never really settle into long term solutions.

So it’s time to create change. To uncover what really keeps us coming back for more.

Discover the undercurrents fuelling your addiction

Now that you’ve completed the worksheet from part 1 in this series, I have a guided visualisation for you. One that will help to uncover the deeper emotional and mental undercurrents which are keeping you addicted to TV, Instagram, email, TikTok.

Feel free to take the visualisation as many times as you need on the numerous information sources you engage with.

NB: This is part 2 of a 3 part series. Access all three parts right here.