Toxic People

 I find the world of social media to be quite toxic and divisive and more so recently.  Twitter which I use to promote both my business and my Lodge is such a place.  It is contrived, abusive and full of the most awful content.  I couldn't quite work out why I was seeing some pretty unpleasant stuff until I realised that it had switched my viewing away from those people I had chosen to follow.   So now I have switched back it is a bit more palatable but yet again I have had to mute or un-follow people who are just downright nasty.

As I need these tools for advertising and promotion I am stuck with them but the bottom line is that you need to prune out the dead wood and diseased growth.  Better still, just narrow it down to only what you are prepared to watch or listen to.  So I was out with my pruners and got rid of the disrespectful and abusive people.  

I plan to review all of this social media activity as I hope that it will only be an occasional need to get involved and not a daily, nay, hourly activity as it seems to be now.  Ideally it would be great to reduce it right down to a few minutes a day or even a week.

A lot depends on whether the business survives this next few months - I have a time limit of March to sort it out.  In sorting it out, I need to either close it or if I run it, it only need take up a few hours a week or it's not worth doing.  That is the upcoming decision and having done just about everything I can on it, the final outcome is now neither here nor there.

I've had enough of it all the truth be told and it either stands or falls based on the next few week's exercise.  And now, I don't mind one way or the other what the outcome is as I will have carried out all the possible routes to complete the product, market it and so on.  Given it every chance to live and thrive.

The chap who has made my life hell now reminds me that it isn't that important and whilst he probably doesn't realise it, his behaviour has made me not care less about it all now.  It will be what it will be and if it does all fold up then I can see my freedom ahead.

I've felt beholden to the idea and the company - it's a shame that he didn't fully commit but this happens more often than you might realise. I am trying to get away from the feeling that I must do something or that I am expected to do something it is strange as if it is some sort of work commitment that I am obliged to fulfil and yet no such contract or commitment exists.  I need to work on this as it is something that I cannot get used to.  I am meant to be retired but I am far from that and I am not enjoying my retirement as I am sorting out this business that I have been left with.