da da da da da da I was recently away in the woods for 5 days with no technology no phone no Internet just lovely campfires and lovely conversations with lovely people we used the wood from the forest we had to dig holes in order to use the toilet there were no toilets as we know it and it was an incredible time and I didn't feel any anxiety I mean any crazy amounts of anxiety of course I'm still nervous about things from time to time but overall it was just simple it was very simple and I
felt at peace and at ease and I knew what to do and I knew when to do it and if I didn't know what to do I could ask somebody and they would suggest what the best use of my energy might be sometimes it was to help in the kitchen sometimes it was to play music and when I say kitchen I mean it was an outdoor kitchen that we created so the kitchen was powered by wood from a fire which we created a hole for in the ground and then we put a big po hot
on top and that's how we made the water hot and that's how we made porridge and all of these things that we were living off of after the time in the woods I came back to you know this version of civilization that I most often frequent and it was a form of culture shock and perhaps the most challenging part of it for me was to have the phone yet again in my possession and to be online and I made a video a couple of weeks ago about smartphones and it really seemed to resonate with a
lot of people a lot of people are sharing these challenges since then you know I went on this trip and I've gained you know even further perspective on the matter of course I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bath water like if you stick around I'm sure we're going to talk about how there are use cases for technology and how it makes everything possible I mean here we are on the internet after [Music] all but the most profound thing was [Music] that while I was away while I was off the phone I
just wasn't thinking about people that weren't in front of me for the most part maybe I had a fond thought about somebody or some memory or whatever but fundamentally I was dealing with what was in front of me and and the moment I went back online I saw all of these messages about things that were kind of trivial or like not relevant and that's what was there but then there's also what wasn't there the messages that I thought would be there that weren't there and that is more problematic than the messages that are there because
then my mind starts to create stories around why the messages aren't there and that really hurts you know because we don't think very nice things about ourselves a lot of the time I'm sure you can relate to that and the phone the internet social media it's another realm it's another world that we can project our insecurities into and that way you don't even have to leave your couch in order to create these horrible monstrosity stories about yourself but that didn't happen in the woods of course there's still like altercations with people like people sometimes don't
get along with other people that's a natural thing but when it's happening offline as in in person you get to the bottom of it a lot sooner because there's a person in front of you that you're interfacing with that you're talking with of course they can choose to storm out run away from you but eventually you will have to come to some sort of consensus or conclusion and that's like a real conflict I suppose you could say and that's valid and and humans are always going to experience that but then when we look at the
phone we just create a bunch of conflicts that literally don't exist and we create stories of our selfworth based on how many text messages we did or did not receive how fast somebody responded or did not respond whether someone liked our photo on Instagram or our tweet on Twitter I find that I often spend a lot of time checking the social medias to see how how something has been received or to see if something worked and that has its place but it's definitely not necessary to do that every day [Music] and a better thing to
do rather than be checking your emails to see if people have written to you two minutes after you sent your email or checking your stats on YouTube or seeing how many people like to post on Instagram a better thing to do is just go and do more of the thing make more content write more scripts just create more because creating is the thing that's happening the feedback from your Creations that's cool but that's not in your control and the internet really highlights to us the things that aren't in our control that have never been in
our control and when you step back from it you realize how insignificant it all is once you take the space and it only really takes a day and it helps to remove yourself from your current physical environment because that's where all the habits exist when I got home I was in a house with a room and a bed and a phone and the internet and I felt all these compulsions to do worldly things that I just would never have thought about in the forest and I'm saying this to say if you're having a hard time
in life right now in any aspect of your life getting rid of your phone is probably proba going to cure like 95% of your challenges and if it doesn't then it might give you the clarity and insight required to gain New Perspective or approach things in a different way because if the last week taught me anything it's that my energy is way beyond my control and it's not just me it's it's most other humans in our Western Civilization as blessed as we are we're kind of dumb because we can't handle our technology we can't handle
our privilege and we are letting it take away from us rather than using it as a tool to leverage and show up and be of more value to our society and communities and the people that we encounter just be with the things that are actually in front of you and not the things that might be there CU you sent a text to someone and you're like hoping something might happen but you don't actually know yet because they haven't responded just deal with what's in front of you and that's easier in the woods than in real
life because in the woods it's like oh the fire is about to go out I better put some wood on to it whereas when you're at home things aren't as urgent and that's why we end up stagnating on the couch at 3:00 in the morning unable to move even though we've exhausted every possible new item on our news feed good to hang out with you again if you're a creative and you're interested in oneon-one mentorship there's a link in the description for a free call with me you can have a chat see if we could
be aligned to work together and support you in achieving your goals until next time have a great day
