FOMO against JOSI

You might have already heard of FOMO.

Think about the last time your friends invited you to join them here or there, but you kinda felt like staying home. And at the same, not wanting to missing out...

Or this team lunch at work, where you don't really feel like going, but well.. I mean most of my colleagues are going, so.. I might just go, just to say hi, I mean, I need to eat anyway.. + the people there will see that I'm making effort to be "part of the group", part of the "corporate culture".

Even if honestly, my social battery feels a little low...

This anxious moment when you Fear Of Mission and Opportunity is summed up in the acronym FOMO.

FOMO has visciously made its way in our today's busy lives, where AI and online services paradoxically help us save a lot of time ... that we end up spending on our digital services (just not the same ones).

So at some point, I gotta go socialize in real life, right ?

But hey, what is it that you really want right now ? That you really feel like doing, given the level of social and physical battery that is a reality for you right now ?

That's when JOSI joins the scene.

My Canadian friend @Rachel who I met travelling, actually in a coliving space, on a night where the majority of our colivers friends had gone out to celebrate being in week-end. We had stayed here, seating int the couch of the common living room, chatting and getting to know eachother more, enjoying a calm environment.

Introducing JOSI, the Joy Of Stayin In.

This made me laugh so much the first time I heard that ! (Because yes, @Rachel is a very funny person).

Not only did I laugh because of the actual counter-acronym, but I also had just discovered a concept that all the person I coach could use as a guilt-killer when prompt to go/do/move towards something they don't really feel the energy for.

JOSI reminds us our universal right to take good care of ourselves, even if it means doing actually nothing, staying here end enjoying a slow-pace moment of calm, weither alone or accompanied by carefully selected persons (or animals).

JOSI is this friend that SCREAMS at you that THIS IS OK not to go out tonight, that your friends will go on loving the absolute loving person you are in their lives, whether you follow them or not this time. And this applies to the professional field too.

Even more, people to who you'll say "I'll pass this time", "I'm staying in (with JOSI) tonight" might actually feel very inspired by this kind of self-counscious behavior. You might indirectly do good to them by doing so.

So yeah, next time you're invited to (when not pressurized into - doesn't it feel like being forced sometimes ?) go or do something even though you already felt the awaking joy of staying in (or right here) over the solicited period, just remember JOSI. JOSI will surely always be there for you, giving you credit for taking good regenerative time for yourself.

"And that is so productive !" she says.