Today changes are happening.
So over the past hundred days I've been podcasting and I've been doing it daily, every single
day.
In the beginning I was recording short videos because to be honest I was not good enough
to speak for more than 10 minutes and some at times like four minutes was the most I
could speak for.
There was a lot of like small breaks in between.
And so when I moved on and I decided to do progressive overload, so what that means is
that in the beginning my first episode was probably like two minutes and then I added
it to three minutes and then five minutes and then 10 minutes and then 15 minutes and
then I just after every day, days recording of episode, it just went more and more and
more to the point where I got to one hour long episodes.
And the reason why I did that was so I can actually get to the point where I am skilled
enough to be able to speak for one hour because in the beginning if you go back to my first
episode I could barely even speak for five minutes.
So that's why I wanted to do that.
And also because in the beginning when I started posting podcasts, I did it because I read
in a book, Expert Secrets, Russell Brunson said that if you post daily on your show for
an entire year, you'll never have to worry about money again.
So I decided to podcast and post daily.
But then I also wanted to do long podcasts, like one hour.
And that was because when I first started or when I was listening to podcasts myself,
I used to like listening to the long form podcast because I was like trying to actually
learn a lot about that.
And so that that was just the type of stuff I preferred.
So that would be the type of stuff I would prefer to make.
So that's why I ended up doing daily one hour podcasts up until this point.
And it was very good.
I'm very glad I did it because it allowed me to gain all of this skill.
It allowed me to increase my like capacity and increase the actual skills that I have
for podcasting.
And as like just from the two minutes that I've been speaking right now, I'm already
so much more fluid and effective with my words than I was a hundred days ago when I first
started.
So I'm grateful that I did it.
Excuse me.
And moving forward, I'm ending that all.
I'm ending daily one hour episodes and I'll tell you why.
It's because I realized that I plateaued.
So in the beginning, I was growing a lot.
Like I myself was growing, not the podcast, not the channel, but my own like skills at
podcasting was growing a lot.
It was growing so fast in the beginning to the point where literally because I would
post I would record and then I would schedule it for like five days later.
So by the time I actually posted it live, I had already recorded five more episodes.
And I remember looking back like literally just five days ago and I saw the growth just
from five days.
Like I was improving so much, but now it's not so much.
Now I'm kind of plateauing like my graph like skyrocketed after the little bit.
And then it started plateau for my skill level after a hundred days of podcasting, which
shows that there's there's something that needs to change in order to improve.
Another reason is that the quality of the podcast is either maintaining or it's slowly
atrophying because I'm having a hard time keeping up with enough content to say for
an entire hour every single day.
Got to the point where I was simply just speaking random stuff just to fill time just to get
to that one hour marker.
Like I kept on looking down at the number, the timer on the screen, seeing how long is
left so I can see how much more I have to talk about.
Now just speak on random things and I'd end up blabbering along and speaking on random
random things and to balance it was quite hard to follow.
And so changes are happening.
And I have two things that I'm kind of wrestling with either continue daily episodes, but shorten
the link.
Like just shorten it to 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes or however long I need to actually
say what I need to say.
So maintain daily recording, but not worry about one hour.
Just speak as long as I need to speak to get my point across.
Because like I said, I was just speaking words just to fill the time I ended up repeating
things over and over and over again.
Like I would just repeat this.
Like I kind of have a habit of it now where I'm kind of doing it right now.
So me repeating things over and over and over again was just to fill the time.
So if I just loosen the restriction of the one hour daily to daily, but it doesn't matter
how long it is, just like it could be 10 minutes.
It could be an hour.
It could be 90 minutes.
Like that kind of loose thing that could work.
I'm not sure.
Or I can maintain the long form videos and just have them every other day or once a week
or every five days or every three days, like just lower the frequency.
So right now I have one hour daily, which is one hour long constant frequency.
I can either shorten the frequency or shorten the duration.
So I can, those are the two options I have.
Shorten the time or maintain the time, but have less upload frequency.
So that's kind of what I'm wrestling with right now.
And right now, after this episode, after I'm done recording this episode and editing it
and scheduling it, I'll have seven days until I run out of daily posts.
So essentially I have episodes scheduled for seven days ahead of time.
So this episode probably won't post until November 4th and it's October 28th.
So that gives me like seven days to figure out what I'm doing, like seven days to figure
this whole thing out, which is plenty of time, especially because there's massive changes
coming in my own life.
Let me speak on that.
So one of the big changes I'm making is, first of all, I realized that I'm dipping my toes
in entrepreneurship.
I'm dipping my toes in the waters of podcasting.
What I mean by that is, let me tell you a quick story to explain.
So when I started lifting weights, it was sophomore year.
And at the time, my goal wasn't really the physique, but let's just say for argument's
sake, my goal at the time was for the physique to build and make my physique and physical
body look better.
So I started lifting sophomore year.
And once I like went a few days and I realized like, oh, I actually like this.
I want to do this.
Then I just devoted my entire life to it.
Like I would literally just come home and make sure that I was just, I was getting a
bed at the right time every single day in order to wake up early because I would always
go to the gym first thing in the morning because that's how I prioritized it.
I always like the things I do first in the morning are always my priorities.
And that's another thing I want to talk about how I'm not prioritizing podcasting because
it's at the end of the day.
And let me explain, or at least I'm not prioritizing business because it's at the end of the day.
But I am dipping my toes or no, let's okay, let's maintain the story.
I am going to the gym literally every day in the morning at 6am.
And I just devoted my entire life to it.
Like that's all I cared about.
I would go to the gym, go to school, come home, go to sleep, go to the gym.
That's all I thought about the gym, the gym, the gym.
I went to the gym every single day and I would rarely rest.
And if I did, I just rested just because I needed it.
And I would also make sure that I went to the gym on vacations when I was out of town,
like all this stuff.
I basically went full in on the gym and then flash forward fast forward two years later.
I'm just getting into business.
I just realized, oh, I want to get into business.
So then I just dipped my toes into the water.
I just test things out.
I made, tried out improving my skills on website building, programming, other little things.
And then I eventually got to the point of where I tested my skills on podcasting.
And podcasting was the first thing I was actually really serious about and I actually maintained
for over 100 days.
And up until today, I'm still maintaining it.
But let's go back to the gym.
When I first started going to the gym, I saw people all around me who were just dipping
their toes in the water and they were just like, oh, let me just try this lifting weights
thing out.
Let me just go once a day and see what happens.
And so as a result, they didn't really get much results.
They, they just went once a week and they didn't get much results.
Sorry.
I think I said once a day, but I'm really saying they dip their toes, which means they
only went like once a week.
So if you go to the gym like once a week, once a month, every, every other week or something
like that, infrequently, you're just dipping your toes in the water.
You're just trying it out so you don't get very much results.
That's essentially what I was doing with business with podcasting.
I was just kind of testing it out, just doing it.
Yeah, I was doing it once a day, but I was, it was such a small part of my day and I wasn't
really focused on it too much.
Obviously, because I never edited, I never did any of like marketing or anything.
I was simply just focused on recording, which I'm grateful for.
Like I said, it improved my actual podcasting abilities.
And I, if I would have to go back and do it again, I probably would do it again.
But that, that also means since I'm plateauing, I have to just go all in or and like end everything.
Or I could just maintain this and not get any results, which end everything kind of
seems dumb because I've spent a hundred days building something.
Go, maintain this kind of seems dumb as well because I'm not going to get any results,
but I'm putting in like the same output every day.
So that leaves me with one option and it's to figure out how I can actually move forward.
And things that I'm doing is now that I realized I got to invest like everything into this
podcast because I want to get business.
Business is my actual goal, but I know podcast is the foundation to the business.
I want to build a podcast so that I can actually like figure out where to go from there for
the business and actually have traffic.
So that means that I like the podcast is my business for now.
That's my only thing that I am thinking about throughout the day.
So what I'm going to do is I am stopping the gym.
I'm just going to maintain.
And this morning I wrote down, I just mapped out like my plan for the gym.
And right now my current plans and they are subject to change, but my current plans are
one, like one day on the gym and then three days off and then one day on three days off.
So basically I go Monday and then I rest for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then I go
Friday and then I rest and then like it just one day on three days rest.
And on that one day on, I'm just going to lift the full body, full body, like, and I'm
just going to do supersets.
I actually wrote down all of the supersets that I plan on doing.
The way I like figured out my routine is I listed push, pull legs and then listed all
of the workouts that I already do under those columns.
And then I literally just went on, I started on the left column and then went and I took
the top one from the left and the top one from the middle column and then supersetted
them.
And then the top one from the right and then the second one on the left and then supersetted
it.
And then just went down the line and just supersetted sets of two.
And that will allow me to literally just superset different muscles so I don't have to rest,
which is huge because that will allow me to be extremely efficient in the gym.
And a full body.
So I'm probably going to be spending like an hour or eight, like probably around an
hour or more in the gym, but it's going to be condensed because I'm not going to be spending
like 45 minutes for three days.
So it's different.
It's an hour, one day instead of 45 minutes, three days, which is 45 minutes at the gym
is more like an hour and a half because it takes me time to pack for the gym, bike to
the gym, shower at the gym, bike home and unpack from the gym.
Like all that takes time as well.
So one day is more condensed than three days because of the prep time as well.
So that's where I'm at with that.
I'm radically changing things and that stems from one thing.
Be flexible and pliable to your plans.
You have to be able to radically change.
And I realized that one of my biggest flaws that I developed over the past couple of months
was I enveloped doing daily routines, strict regimented routines in my identity.
Like on, you can go back and listen to the podcast.
I was so proud of my extremely disciplined routine.
I did the same thing every day.
And then literally just a couple of days ago, I started realizing like, oh, this is actually
not good because this one video that I saw of how routines are making you weak, which
that kind of started to make me question because Alex Hormozzi literally almost a billionaire.
I'm not sure how rich he is, but he's like a multimillionaire.
He said that.
And then he also made another routine of called the anti routine.
So I started to realize that my routine is actually like not good.
So that leads me to destroying that part of my identity.
I realized that that was holding me back.
And it took me probably like three or four days to actually get to the point where I'm
starting to become comfortable or at least neutral with radically shifting my entire
routine because I'm going to be honest.
Once I saw that anti routine video, I knew I had to change it, but at the point it was
like, I was like, oh, I don't know for sure.
Like I, it was still so much part of my identity that I didn't want to change it, but I knew
I had to.
And so what I did was I ended up getting like sick two days ago.
And then I ended up just literally incorporating little pieces like fasting with intermittent
fasting.
And then I just literally over the past weekend or today is Saturday, but over the past two
or three days, I literally just did not do my routine.
And that was meant to like train me to accept the fact that your routine is not like required
for success.
If that makes sense.
And he said that you like all that remains is the work to be done.
Like that, that just kept on replaying in my mind.
He said all that remains is the work to be done.
Like you have to question like what's going to get you there?
What's going to get you success?
What's going to make you wealthy?
Well, it's the work.
So all that remains, like you can add on all these nice little fancy intricate daily routines,
which is what I had done till literally a couple of days ago.
But all that remains that is going to get you successful is the work to be done.
And I hadn't even done any of the work.
I've been, yes, I've been improving my podcasting abilities, like I said, but I haven't really
been improving the quality or figuring out how to actually, I don't know anything about
successful podcasts.
Like I'm so worried about successful worldview and all that stuff, which is great.
And I'm very glad I'm doing it.
But I'm not even thinking about how to make a successful podcast.
So that's the work to be done.
That's actually going to get me forward and I'm not even doing it.
So what Alex Hormozzi does is he literally just wakes up at 4am, works until 12, and
then like, I don't know what he does after that, but like he wakes up at 4am and then
starts working right there.
So what I realized is I still want to maintain a piece of my routine because to be honest,
I'm just not coming conscious that it's still slightly part of my identity.
But I also feel like I wouldn't be as efficient at working if I hadn't done the specific things
in my routine.
For example, right now my daily routine is simply just going to be stripped to the bare
bones.
I'm going to wake up, grab a glass of water with all my supplements in it, brush my teeth,
go to the bathroom, and then take a cold shower, which the cold shower I feel is really important,
especially because it's a shower.
I want to take a shower because I don't want to feel grimy while I'm doing the work.
So it'll increase the quality of the work as well as the cold shower will actually make
me more focused, I feel.
And then right away after I'm done with the cold shower, I do my meditation, which is
the gateway experience, which that is the one piece that I'm not quite sure if it's
even worth it, but I'm going to do it for now.
And then right from there, I get to work, which to be honest, I haven't even done any
work yet, which I don't even know.
My issue is, today I set out time to actually get to work on my computer, but the issue
is I don't even know what to do.
So I ended up just researching how to do better podcasts, and I realized that I need to actually
learn about this stuff.
So I ended up buying three books, I believe, about podcasting, and I'm going to read all
of those, and then I feel like my vision for how to move forward after having read those
is going to be way more clear.
So then I'll actually be able to understand exactly what needs to be done.
And then I can just lock in on that.
And so then I have to ask myself, all right, shoot, that's another thing that I'm just
realizing on the spot that I have to get better at is my videos, even when I script them out
slightly, like just write down notes, like my notes, if you're on YouTube watching this,
you can see my notes are like very long, I feel like it would be better if I use just
bullet point notes, just say this, and then this, and then this.
And so it's kind of hard for me to follow these notes, so I end up going back and forth, even
though I have notes.
So I have to ask myself, why am I even podcasting daily?
If I'm just having low quality, if I'm plateaued, and on rework, I read, I finished reading
the book called rework, and it's a book about business and entrepreneurship.
I recommend it.
It's very good.
I finished it in two days.
It's a pretty quick read.
And they said something like, when you're small, when no one's even listening to you,
when no one's following you, when you are irrelevant and no one's even buying from you
as a business or a podcast or a YouTube channel or whatever, when no one's listening to you,
you have an extremely advantageous position because you can try out and experiment different
things and no one would be the wiser.
No one's listening to you in the first place, so if you make mistakes, it won't matter.
Versus when you're actually big and successful, you can't make as much mistakes because it
actually affects a lot of people.
So right, that kind of completely switched my attitude towards me being in this podcast
because I was thinking that I had to make, I had to stay consistent one hour.
And that was slightly because it was part of my identity, but also because, well, yeah,
it was because it was part of my identity.
But I'm realizing this is actually giving me a lot of comfort switching off of this because
I can make my mistakes now because no one's even listening to me, which brings me to the
next thing.
My podcast is all about documenting the journey and documenting the journey to success.
And so one of the things that I wanted to let you guys know along the journey is I want
to tell you guys my analytics along the way because I was always curious of how long it
took a YouTuber to actually get how much viewers or subscribers they got.
And so one of the things that I want to tell you guys now that I'm completely switching
courses, I want to tell you my analytics.
So I just pulled it up on my screen here.
So I have today I have seven downloads, which is actually a lot or seven downloads on my
right now I'm talking about my podcast analytics, seven downloads today.
The last 30 days was 281 downloads, which is down negative 22% from the last 30 day
period.
And then my all time downloads total downloads is 987.
So probably by the time this video releases, I'll be at a little over 1000 all time downloads.
And then my rolling average subscribers, which is basically the amount of people who are
watching a video pretty consistently within the first 24 hours.
So pretty much like your average subscribers because they podcast directories don't actually
most of them don't actually like record the subscribers or the followers.
So it's kind of an average estimate that this my podcast software is giving to me and my
rolling average subscribers is five.
So I essentially have five subscribers.
So like giving that into terms I'm more familiar with YouTubers, like like YouTubers who actually
I see is slightly successful or successful to the point where I feel like they could
potentially make some money is people who have like 100,000 subscribers or more.
And right now I have five subscribers.
So then that brings me down to my graph from the past couple months.
So July I had 59 downloads.
August I had 313 downloads.
September I had 362 downloads.
And so far as of October 28th, I have 253 downloads.
And then my rolling average subscribers, July I had four followers.
August 6th, September 7th, and then so far in October, I have five followers.
And my number one most downloaded video is my trailer, which makes sense.
And that also leads me to another thing I got to change is my trailer.
I definitely have to post a new trailer because this one sucks.
And I don't want people to click on my channel and listen to the trailer and be like, oh,
this channel sucks, because I've definitely gotten a lot better.
Like I made that trailer 100 days ago.
And then my second most, okay, I'm just going to tell you my top five episodes where number
one is the trailer.
Number two is my first episode called Getting Out of Bed.
By the way, my trailer has 28 downloads.
The second episode has 26 downloads, or not the second, the first episode.
And then my third most downloaded video episode is called Grounding.
And it's the second episode, which has 18 downloads.
And then my fourth is the 20th episode called Today Was a Turning Point, which has 18 downloads
as well.
And then my fifth most viewed or downloaded episode is the 11th episode, which is called
Remember the Eagles, and that has 18 downloads as well.
And then there's like the top five locations.
Pretty much America, Canada, and Belgium are the top three countries in my list.
And that's pretty much my analytics for the podcast.
So then that leads me to analytics for TikTok.
I have 34 followers on TikTok and 284 likes total.
And then I get usually around a little over 200 views per post that I make.
And then that leads me to my analytics for YouTube, which I've gotten 1.4 thousand views
total.
And then I've gotten 32 likes total.
Oh, wait, no, this is all on shorts.
Okay.
So these are my shorts.
I've got 4,000 views on the shorts, 32 likes, and then I have nine subscribers in my channel.
And my podcast on my YouTube, because I post my podcast on YouTube as well, the podcast
is very bad.
It's got like probably, yeah, it's got 26 views in the past 28 days.
Let me change it to the past 365 days.
Yeah, I've gotten 76 views total on my podcast on YouTube.
And that's after like a hundred episodes, or that's after like 96 episodes, I believe.
And then I've got like average view duration is two minutes.
So most people don't make it past two minutes on my podcast.
So that's another thing.
If people aren't even listening past two minutes and I have a one hour post, no one's
even gonna want to watch it.
So that is another marker that I need to make some changes.
All right.
So that's like the first couple of things I wanted to talk about.
So some benefits to me recording less or less often is more time to research and make higher
quality episodes, which is huge, because like I've been saying, there's not like it's very
difficult to find enough content to talk about to keep the episode flowing very well for
the entire one hour, for daily one hour episodes, which is a big reason why I started reading
Transurfing the third time through so I could get some content to talk about, which to be
honest, I haven't even really talked about it that much.
I have a lot of notes.
So I could make probably two or three Transurfing principles, one hour length episodes off of
those notes, which is good, but I haven't even used those yet.
So then another thing is I had to ask myself, why am I doing this and figure out where I'm
going?
And that's going to give me more time to do that in the day.
Why am I even doing this?
Well, why am I doing daily one hour?
Because it's part of my identity.
So where am I going?
I want to be successful.
So is this helping me?
No, it's not.
All right.
So today, I actually, in my research on how to get better, I was listening to my friend's
episode because I wanted to see what he was doing and see if he was getting successful
because he was in a similar situation where I am and I wanted to see if he was getting
success so I could emulate that.
And what I found is that I actually found some things that he's doing that I'm doing
as well.
So I found two big things.
Make truly standalone videos.
So what that means is, yeah, making standalone videos where you could get very good benefit
out of just watching one video.
But there's a lot of times where I don't fully explain something.
For example, I've talked about funnel hacking live.
People probably don't even know what funnel hacking live is.
It's a business conference by ClickFunnels, which is a software making website.
It's a software to make websites.
And the funnel hacking live is an annual business conference where entrepreneurs go and gather.
And it's kind of like a rock concert for entrepreneurs with a lot of motivational speakers and great
speakers that go there.
And it's like a four day long event.
And I went there a couple, like a month ago and in September 26th until October 1st is
when I was there in Florida.
Like that's one thing I have said funnel hacking live in my episodes with the assumption that
people know.
And that's just one piece of information that I want to make sure that people understand
is a standalone.
So every single time I say something, I want to make sure that a person who does not even
know what I'm talking about can understand.
And I'm sure that there's some things that I talked about in today's episode that may
have not followed that rule already.
And then the second thing is get straight to the point.
Quit rambling and babbling to fill time.
That's what I was saying earlier in the episode where I just got to get straight to the point
and don't worry about the time.
And that will help with the entertainment as well because this is the entertainment industry.
Like I am podcasting to entertain as well as inform.
But first and foremost, important is to entertain because if people are entertained, they're
not going to get informed.
So that's very important.
And it's evident because in my YouTube analytics, people stop watching two minutes in.
So that's huge.
So a few things to note.
I've already said a few of these things, but become flexible and pliable with your plans.
Like don't be attached to stay on, what did I say?
Okay, don't be so attached to stay on a sinking boat.
Like if you're on a boat and it's sinking, don't be so attached to the boat to where
you want to stay on it.
You just jump ship and switch to a different boat.
So that's kind of what I realized I'm doing with this podcast.
It's a sinking ship.
I'm literally losing followers by the day, even though I only have like five followers
a couple of days ago, I had seven.
But that's like a sinking ship.
So I definitely got to improve the quality.
And then another one limiting belief prevents me from doing this is I incorporated daily
one hour episodes to my identity.
And I talked about that the whole episode.
So evidently moving forward, I got to do a lot better with my planning out.
And I got to figure out like what to do with this podcast.
But today's going to be the first podcast where I don't record a one hour podcast where I
don't post a one hour podcast in over like 80 days or 70 days.
Since episode 14, I've had daily one hour episodes.
Today's the first day where I am not doing that again.
So that's all I got to say.
I'm moving forward and tomorrow, October 29th is when I'm not going to record an episode.
I'm just going to figure things out because tomorrow is Sunday and I've got like the whole
day to just figure it out.
And then the three books that I ordered are coming on Monday.
And I'm just going to figure those things out.
I'm not going to record until I figure stuff out.
So I pretty much have seven days.
I have until next Saturday to realize like what I want to do.
And even longer because I'm probably going to end up doing long form like one hour videos
every couple days.
And that brings me to the TikToks and the YouTube shorts.
I may maintain three TikToks every day because I post three TikToks every day as well as
YouTube shorts.
I just post the same video on both platforms at the same time.
But I may maintain three daily, but I may want to change that because I'm still getting
better at recording those TikToks.
So it is beneficial for me to just get mass out.
But like I said, like once I get to a certain point where I'm plateauing, I definitely got
to figure out how to make it better.
For example, edit them.
Like I'm actually seeing some very good success on my TikTok.
Like 200 views per video I feel is very good, but actually compared to my YouTube, which
is like sometimes I get zero views.
So 200 views is amazing.
And I want to figure out how to make like get thousands or millions of views.
And the way you do that is by editing it.
So I got to start editing those videos and I'm not sure if it's very sustainable to edit
three TikToks every day.
Maybe it is.
I don't know how long it takes to edit them.
I just pop them into editing software and it'll do it all for me.
So it may actually be sustainable.
Who knows?
I'll figure it out on that, but that's it for today's episode.
So expect big changes in the future.
Tomorrow, like the episode that I post next, maybe tomorrow, it may be in a week.
Who knows?
Because I, like I said, this episode is posting on like the 4th of November and it's October
28th right now.
So I have seven days.
But that's it to wrap things up.
I almost did my outro, but I realized I dropped the outro also.
So if you like the content, follow from warm and have a good day.