Success is relative and is an inside job

Instagram success is relative and is an inside
job


Success is relative and deeply personal. My idea of success is
going to be significantly different than anyone else’s because it
is based on my context, experiences and judgements and that’s the
way it should be.


BUT Due to our predilection for vicariously living through other
people's lives we have become accustomed to what social media,
television, and media manipulates us to define success.


Society has Warped our Perception.


From early childhood, we have learned from the collective
amalgamation of humanity what it means to be successful. Whether
it’s working in the right type of job, or the proper way to act,
dress, speak - these ideas have been pushed on us daily and
relentlessly.


Social media sharpens that perspective even further and engrains
in our minds that success is based on


the nicest car


The biggest house


The most expensive clothes


And on and on around material possessions - anything short of
that is FAILURE.


If you google “what does it mean to be successful” the immediate
results depict and define success from the billionaires
perspective, the actress in hollywood or the sports agent of some
professional athlete, so this quickly becomes our barometer and
our litmus for success, and to be frank with you - this is just
skewed. Success is personal, it varies from individual to
individual and is an inside job.


So how do we draw all that in for today’s episode about
instagram? Well much like life, we have been taught that
Instagram success means


we have to have massive followings,


huge number of likes and


monstrous accounts to are considered “influential” or successful.


But we have a different take on success on IG.


Yes IG is making it harder and harder to stand out, but that is
also an offshoot of everybody trying harder and harder to stand
out and in a sea of people trying to stand out, most of them all
look the same. So how do you become successful?
Develop your own style and be strategic about your
content
Finding your niche is important
Stay in your lane
It’s all about community
The cascade fountain is always running