reminders for myself

I’ve gotten back on Instagram and I like what I’m doing with it. So that I don’t waste a bunch of time there, I’ve been reminding myself of two things. 

1. Instagram is not my work. I think I first heard Karen Swallow Prior talk about this a few years ago. Social media is not the work. We can do work and share it on social media, but we run into problems when we make social media the work. I can talk some about my work there. It is not my work. I need to walk away and put my hands to my work. 

2. I read or heard this last week and I don’t remember where. Someone said, “If you check Instagram a lot, you become a person who is good at checking Instagram.” I have no interest in becoming that person at all.