You may have heard the term FOMO, which stands for Fear Of Missing Out. It’s a product of living in a society of abundance.
So many choices! So many amazing things going on, and because we carry around these devices that allow us to see, at all times, what all our friends are up to, it’s easy to get caught up in FOMO.
Where FOMO is the worst, though, is when you go to a conference, right?
Not a boring work conference, but a really juicy, exciting one, with a ton of workshops and panels, where every single one is something you are just dying to attend. You can’t make up your mind, because you don’t want to choose between them, and it’s excruciating. And paralyzing.
That is FOMO.
And I was at such a conference, the Creative Problem Solving Institute, in Buffalo, New York, this past June, when I met a new friend, Erica Marx, who introduced me to the concept of COMO. [Read more…]
