and then I got my Instagram following to zero and holy [ __ ] was there a backlash so guys as some of you may have seen around like a month ago or something I literally unfollowed everyone on Instagram everyone from my business mentors to my girlfriend to my best friend to my this or that yeah you know like literally ever right I went from around like 300 following to zero and there's mixed response this backlash from like my friends obviously take care that much but you know everyone I had a lot of people because I'm
very flattered I have a lot of people that just kind of look at the things I'm doing you know yes they listen to the things I'm saying but they also just listen to the things I'm doing and you know I never announced anywhere then you know I'm looking to take my falling down to zero but a lot of people noticed it and they were you know I had you know four or five people who are entrepreneurs who I've never actually met but you know we've connected with and they and they messaged me and they went
dude like you know I'm just curious like why did you bring your following down 2-0 surely that's really bad for you and your brand and and you know I don't you want to stay connected and stuff like that and yeah I agree to a certain point but guys in today's video I just want to play devil's advocate I just want to you know give you a bit of a reasoning as to why it took it down to zero and now I'm up till around like 30 or so so a lot of us okay well the
first thing I want to say is that either you use social media or social media uses you right and I don't want to I don't like being a sucker right and I never want to get suckered into the fact that social media is just there to use you I want to use social media I want to use social media to help build my businesses I want to use social media to help connect with incredible people I want to use social media to stay connected with friends but I never want to have it have a control
over me right so that is the first thing right second thing is sometimes you know one thing in return assignment solution is it's just the highlights and I know everyone says this but for example guys like you will see like it's it's been so ridiculous to watch what people put on social media and then what their life is actually like you know and there are people who are more honest and less honest there's different scales you know those people who make their life out to be incredible and then actually just knock and there's people who
make their life out to be incredible and you know they or at least this is what I try to do right my life is I live such an incredible blessed life I I travel the world you know I work with incredible companies from a marketing agency I have incredible mentors and and Business Network I have like you know all this stuff I've ever dreamed of right but I'm still pushing for more and I'm pushing to provide more value and I'm pushing to just achieve more and and and you know be able to say at the
end of my life that I fulfilled my potential and I think my potential is quite high so you know what I try to do on my social media is portray the amazing lifestyle that I have because I said I'm very proud of what I managed to do with that but if you guys follow me on Instagram stories for example you will see me up at 5:30 every single like no one has ever questioned my success because it's very [ __ ] clear like it's very clear to see that I work like a [ __ ]
dog like that I sacrifice everything for what I want you know say there's no question about that so what I try to do is for example is I try to paint the picture of look there's this is this amazing life that you can have and go look at my photos or my videos but here I am at 5:30 waking up every single [ __ ] day here's me going to gym every single [ __ ] day here's me just ending the day feeling this oh someone has punched me in the face because that's how [
__ ] hard or that's how much of myself I've given to my craft and my work right so um that's why I try to with my social media so one thing you need to understand is everything can be you know crafted and manipulated and this and that would social me and that leaves a lot of people just feeling really helpless because you know how would you feel it if you know you're you're hustling your [ __ ] ass home but you're trying your hardest you're doing your thing and then you see someone on Instagram who's
like yeah today I made $50,000 or I did this or like here is my incredible body when really they've just photoshopped it or here's me and my incredible lifestyle when you know it's not that hard to portray in a good lifestyle without actually having made that money or here's me doing this thing or like here's me with all these amazing girls and then guys I've been like it to me it was so true because I was as I've said this in one of my other videos or a video coming up like I've always wanted to
be that guy in the club behind the red velvet rope with all the bottles and the girls and stuff like that and then I got to that point and it's like all these girls are just on Instagram or what zapping their friend that's like across from them from the table so and said the grass is never greener but social media makes it look like the grass is greener so number one it's the attention and the fact that social media is using you number two it's the fact that like nothing is as it seems on social
media right and there's a few people and I mean I try to be and I'm sure I can do better but like there's a few people who try to just [ __ ] like talk you know straight talk and just not [ __ ] around and I try to be one of those people I said I'm sure I can do better and then lastly it's I think whenever you're doing anything that involves an even at least a little bit of creativity you've got to just stay in your own lane you know you got to stay
in your own lane and for example with me you know I was following like all these entrepreneurs and people I respect and stuff like that but you know I'd be on their stories and I'd be looking at what they're doing and I'd be consuming their content and that and there's a time and a place for that and for example you know later on in the year I might need to follow 100 you know 100 entrepreneurs that I all respect because I need a bit of spark and a bit of creativity but I have this year
mapped out I know exactly every single every single thing I need to do this year to live a happy and fulfilled life to have a better relationship with my girlfriend to you know goes you know goes through some of the the family struggles that you know me and my mom are going through to you know to have an incredible business work Network to make that two million dollars to you know all these things like I know what to do so seeing someone's Instagram story of you know the the highlights inch for like that that doesn't
really help me you know so you know sometimes you're just you just need to step away from it all right and honestly guys I can say you know definitely read a book Tim Grover relentless pretty sure that's what's called but anyway it's like obviously Tim Tim Grover he was the trainer from Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant and you know one thing he says in there is that like it's funny because as you start to get more successful you're your circle grows and grows and grows but then when you start to try and get mega successful
your circle once again collapses and you keep a few people around you and I think you know that's that's kind of how it is and I know I'm nowhere near mega successful like I'm not even I wouldn't even consider myself successful yet right I'm just a little like fish right I guess you could say at my age considering how long I've been doing what I've been doing I don't know how many other people who are on similar levels if I'm honest but in that day as I said there's also so far to go so for
you guys you know if you are following a [ __ ] ton of people on Instagram um guys at that a day you just go ask yourself are you using social media or is social media using you and I would implore you guys you know cut down your following to 15 people just try it right because then today also I think there's so many people here's here's what most people are doing they're watching a podcast from this person they're taking a course from this person they're following this person methodology this person methodology they're building all
these half bridges with all these methodologies why not just follow it two or three people who like I I generous I can say like that's two or three people whose methodologies like I follow and I really follow everyone else I will take little inspiration from here and there but it's two or three people who have certain aspects of their life that I'm like I like that and I want that and I want to achieve the similar sort of thing so guys I would say you gotta cut down on the amount of people you're listening to
and look if that means cutting me out and you don't resonate with my with my stuff you you know so be it you know if that means that you're gonna be more successful go ahead and unsubscribe you know it would be a shame if you did because I love you guys but you know just find someone you resonate with and find someone you resonate with and you see what they've done and they're in a similar situation to you and it's very easy to just duplicate and replicate the results okay so yeah I think it'd be
an interesting experience experiment for all you guys just to try you know bringing down your following account and then in a day a story just well you know one tip that I do have for you guys if you don't want to unfollow like your your best friends and her your friends feelings and sure like that one thing you can do is you can hold on someone's story and you can actually mute their story so you don't get their story I've done that with a few people I'm not going to say who but I've done that
with a few people because you know I care about them you know it's it's weird it's one of those things where people actually do get upset funnily enough or at least people you care about I feel and follow them on social media because it's become such a big thing even though it really isn't so just go ahead and get their story you need to watch that [ __ ] and guys as I said at the end hey if you if you know what to do if you know what to do there you go it's not
like you need any extra information if you just need some motivation or some cake there's three four five six people who will give that for you right it's eight it's 80/20 principle I'm telling you the most of the motivation and value and inspiration that you are getting from people is coming from that 20% each same with my youtube inbox got a sub box guys I took it down from like they're like 80 or something bad take I've taken it down to 15 right so you know guys just on it the sort of [ __ ]
that you're looking at and just go you know just it's your life and they're like it's your life just awed it does this really have an impact on my life enough not cut it you know and just be a bit ruthless so guys hope you enjoyed this video Oh [Music]
