Re-fresh-ment time for me.

I have decided to depart three of my online networking groups in January. It’s my decision to simplify my life and focus on efficiency, not anything the group did wrong, but I just my need to rejuvenate my connectivity.

Not an ROI thing of how much business came in as a direct result vs. the dues I paid. More a matter of time and energy spent that was not replenishing itself or fascinating me personally.

Change is good.

Every time I embark on this, and I have a record of leaving a group but retaining connection with the best people in the groups I left, I feel liberated. I feel revived in that I have to work that much harder to backfill the time and attachment I pried open by leaving the group(s).

The group leaders probably suspected my flagging participation over the past months. They did encourage me to be more active and I demurred. I was testing how I would fare without their group. And in 2024 I did ok.

Next year? Who knows, but a milestone year for me: My 15 years as a LinkedIn coach and trainer has been a great run. Twenty-four years on my own (that’s close enough to 25 years, right?) and a decade birthday, all wrapped into my internally perceived need to reinject, not me but others: with new verve towards helping them be verve-ier, amazing-er, more realistic in their use of LinkedIn.

  • I will aggressively pare back the tangential connections as their work anniversaries remind me connection was not meant to be.
  • I will align with the creme-de-la-creme of my entourage, with co-collaborations that will challenge us both to tell our why in new, better ways.
  • I will decline prospective business that is not strategic for my future.
  • I will still be me. I will opine, pontificate (hell, I earned it with experience) and agitate.

You may want to think how you can accomplish the above bullet points for your career needs.

It’s my choice to brand myself best, remaining honest to my “why,” while true to my intentions. Come along for the ride?