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Angela Price's avatar

So so much accuracy there! Couldn't agree more with pretty much everything you've listed as reasons. I salute your move and hope I'll be able to shake free of SM too at some stage..I wish being an entrepreneur didn't mean you had to engage with SM so much

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Ross Lester's avatar

That is a major complication in that it is so effective as a marketing tool for so many! I'm sure you will have the wisdom to navigate it better than I have. So nice to hear from you! Miss your great questions!

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Nadia's avatar

As always such an honest and vulnerable sharing. I’m in the same space, just might make the same decision soon too.

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Ross Lester's avatar

Thanks Nadia. Lemme know if you do. Would love to know what you learn.

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Hennie van der Watt's avatar

I have been threatening to do this for a while now and this might have just pushed it over the edge for me. Thanks brother!

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Ross Lester's avatar

Miss you Hennie. You are a good man.

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John Ledbetter's avatar

Hear! Hear! If you need some fuel for the Russian literature fire, please check out A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. It’s great for people like me who struggle to recognize a good thing when it is in front of me (my own “me” problem)

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Ross Lester's avatar

Ordered! Thanks John. I so appreciate and respect you. Press on brother.

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Lorissa Demiranda's avatar

I have been feeling this for a while now! Might be just what I needed to get off as well. Thanks for sharing this. This line hit me "I am fatigued by the maintenance of that gap" With what people share and the realities of life.

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Ross Lester's avatar

Thanks Lorissa. That gap has been wearing me out for some time.

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Gavin Carter's avatar

Thoughtful, intentional and honest. Thanks for this.

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Ross Lester's avatar

Thanks Gav. Hope you're well brother.

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Maria Uys-Tapolcai's avatar

I think this is the start of a floodgate of others joining… definitely purposeful to share thank you.

I agree so much with what youre saying about strangers living kind of rent free one’s mind making me insecure about my life and even how I look… and I do not know these people or who they are really.

Not one Tech company is addressing the addictiveness either…

Your post is really making me think a lot!!!

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Maria Y. Price's avatar

Adored everything about this and agree with all points for me as well. Thank you.

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