This Is A Huge Instagram Boundary For Me 🤳🏼

Hey

I took, what felt like a radical leap recently. I’d love to know the amount of days of my life I have wasted acknowledging and responding to ‘reactions’ on my Instagram stories since 2018. That’s over 6 years.

You know the ones 😍 💯 👏 ❤️

As a coach and business owner; industry leaders, people you learn from, podcasters and other coaches constantly tell you to hone in on engagement, nurture your audience and respond to them.

They recommend you outsource story replies to a VA so it’s not you in the DM’s or set up a bunch of automations. That has never felt aligned for me seeing as it’s always my content, my instagram and me posting, I don’t really want someone else in there (or a bot) ‘falsely engaging’ to tick a box ✅ 

I say fuck that.

If people are picking up what I am putting down, I don’t have to acknowledge that they have reacted to my story. It’s as simple as that.

If people are picking up what I am putting down, they will find a way to work with me. It’s as simple as that.

In 2021, I wanted to work with someone so badly, I jumped into Clubhouse rooms (yeah, remember that fad?) to raise my hand to tell them to respond to my Instagram dm as I didn’t know how else to get hold of them to join their container. I didn’t know much about them but they were a recommendation from a trusted friend and I ended up spending $20,000 USD with them.

The last few years have been a serious reckoning. A reckoning on how I spend my time, what I want, what feels like a complete waste of time and how to be less distracted so I can focus on my dharma and be of service.

That first port of call felt so obvious for a long time, yet is easier said than done. Now it’s done.

Unless we’re friends, I follow you, you’ve worked with me, you intend on working with me or are a current client, I don’t want to receive a story reaction from you on Instagram, ever.

If you’re a business owner, coach or content creator and you grapple with constantly chit chatting with time wasters in your dm’s or feel obligated to respond to an emoji, here’s your permission slip to trust that it will not hinder your bottom line or reputation if you change your story settings.

Here’s to…

Brooke’s website: https://brookenolly.com/

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