This week – and for the last few weeks – my writing has been sidelined due to the house being still in recovery from being rebuilt which has led to me twiddling with Periscopes and Blabs and Web in Airs and all kinds of other folk’s content – most of whom are respected mentors of mine – but it has come to my notice that they are all affiliated to the same ‘launch’ mentor and so not only have  I been deluged with his launch stuff from him – but from them as well – and it has been worked into every conceivable nook and cranny of  every new bit of tech’ out there – great coverage – but it has just put me off totally.

Do I need to worry what the light looks like on a Persicope chat about old content threaded with ref’s to the other bloke’s launch –  or the sound?  Or twist my head to watch a sideways and upside down person grinning at me or  Blab on about goodness knows what getting me to coment on their style and back ground while they polish their performance ?

I am the audience. I am the customer. I am not there just to send hearts to someone unknown – not if I ought to be creating my own writing – not if I have spent an hour trying to work out the international time difference – if someone wants to invent something useful a one click time converter that really is quick and easy would be cool…

I AM interested in tech’ and new ideas and the latest New Thing but the last six weeks all my mentors have been doing the SAME thing – I feel suckered.

I can’t always get a good BB signal, I can’t always ask questions – my screen doesn’t look like theirs. I feel plain left out at times and then when I do listen in I get more bumph advertising affiliate links and – yep – I get to feel suckered all over again.

I think all the above efforts have been fun  – BUT – they have taught me some ‘just in time learning’ rather than the ‘just in case learning’  they were aiming to sell me at some future point when I had been softened up by such personalised and friendly emails – and that is – ‘If it looks like a sales pitch it is!’ Walk away and GET BACK TO WORK.