Organic

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With the New Year here I have finally commenced my Organic Challenge: five months of only eating whole foods. It’s a challenge I’ve been looking forward to starting for over a month.

Don’t worry- this post isn’t another why-you-need-organic-food posts. God knows we have enough of those.

The topic is this: Does the information you consume help you toward your goals, or does it make you sick?

As a new entrepreneur I’m consistently trying to control what comes in my body, my mind and my business. It’s fuel or poison in my opinion.

I am convinced that most obese people are actually hungry. Even though they eat massive amounts of calories, they eat calories that have no nutrition in them. So they’re left with a stomach full of crap and yet their bodies are starving for something real.

Take a look at the information we consume every day: the blog posts, the twitter followers, the annoying subscription emails. There’s so much to consume! And yet, like food, there really is only so much we actually need to thrive and be extraordinary.

Are you becoming obese on too much irrelevant information? Maybe it’s time to cut the crap and consume stuff that actually gets you to your ideal.

About Ryan Eggenberger

Ryan Eggenberger is a Michigan-based blogger and connector. Ryan enjoys helping aspiring entrepreneurs create concrete plans of action to achieve their business goals. You can follow Ryan on Twitter @ryaneggenberger.

  • http://twitter.com/KenWohl Ken Wohl

    Great post and completely agree Ryan. The type of media we consume plays a HUGE role in our mood and thought process (aka mental health) the same way the type of food we eat determines our physical health. 

    Everyone should take note of the media that they are consuming. I made the decision almost a year ago to stop paying attention to the news. I rarely check news sites like CNN.com or turn my TV to news channel. Newspapers aren’t even an option. 

    People seem shocked by this. They ask me how do I stay up on the world’s current events. It’s pretty simple to be honest. Anything that’s truly important is going to make it’s way to me. Just checking out my friends on Twitter will let me know if a famous person has died. And to be honest, if someone like Michael Jackson passes away, all I’m interested in is how, why, and when. I don’t need to be engulfed with anything more. The majority of media and news is noise and that noise is poison to my thought process and productivity.

    An earlier post on GrowDetroit.com titled, “Put That TechCrunch Down” (http://www.growdetroit.com/put-that-techcrunch-down/) touches on this. Even TC which is the Wall Street Journal of the web and tech startup scene is not always good for us to consume. 

    So yes Ryan, I 100% agree and I think others should be more aware of this too.

    • Anonymous

      Thanks Ken. I like your comments.

      I even toned down who I follow on Twitter. At some point I just realized I know who I need to follow and why. Too much noise was getting in my way of being productive.

  • http://www.benzinga.com/ klous

    Good piece, it’s great going on an “information diet”. Try for a bit to limit what you read to items you can take action on. I’m a fan of just-in-time learning, learn what you need as you need it. 

    • Anonymous

      Agreed. Anything that can help me achieve a goal is worth noting. Everything else makes me ‘fat’. Thanks for the comment!

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