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It has been a while since we've last talked, but I want to let you guys know something.

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The podcast has been my focus for the past couple months, with the exception of the past

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couple weeks.

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And with that being said, I put in a lot of hours into it, and so I don't want to just

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end it.

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But I also realized that I'm focusing now, I'm now focusing on YouTube, and I'm focusing

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on creating the best YouTube videos possible, and focusing on growing the YouTube channel.

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And there's many reasons for that, the reasons why I switched from the podcast to the YouTube.

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But one of the biggest reasons is because it's a lot easier to grow.

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On the podcast, the only way to get discovered is to market yourself, is to go on to other

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people's podcasts or do other marketing techniques.

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But for YouTube, you can get discovered just by posting great content.

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And so that's really what I'm focusing on forward.

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And I'm going to be honest, over the past couple months, I've really been doubting whether

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I'm choosing the right thing to focus on.

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Because when I first started looking into business, I was really learning about how

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you've got to create something that you're passionate about.

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But you've also got to create something that is needed or people want.

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And so the thing that I'm passionate about is self-improvement.

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And what I've found is over the past couple months, I really started doubting whether

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I'm actually doing the right thing or not.

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Especially over the past couple weeks, I've been finding a lot more confirmation on whether

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I'm doing the right thing or not.

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One of the greatest confirmations that I've received is from a Hamza video that I watched.

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And he said, it was about how to find your purpose in life.

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And how to find not necessarily your purpose, but how to figure out what you want to do

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with your life.

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And so he basically said, ask yourself, what would your perfect day look like?

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What would you spend most of your day doing?

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So for example, Hamza, his thing, most of his day he would spend, like the first four

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hours of his day, would be in the gym.

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He would just train for a very long time.

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That's his perfect day.

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And then he also gave an example of maybe someone's perfect day is to play football all day.

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And then so he basically said, figure out what your perfect day is.

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And so for me, my perfect day consists of go to the gym in the morning and work on self-improvement

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pretty much all day.

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And very similar to what Hamza's is.

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And basically what he said to do is figure out your perfect day.

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And that's the most likely thing that you'll want to do with your life.

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And so that's what you should figure out how to monetize.

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So he said, playing football is going to be very difficult to monetize, but that's probably

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what you should work on.

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That's probably what you should strive towards.

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And so that's one of the biggest things that confirmed me moving forward.

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One of the biggest doubts and major moments that I had over the past couple of weeks was

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one day I was watching YouTube and it was, I stumbled across a video of, it was something

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along the lines of self-improvement is ruining your life or something like that.

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Usually I don't click on those types of videos, but for some reason I felt urged to click

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on it.

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I watched it through and he talked about how a lot of people don't have hobbies to actually

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make their life enjoyable.

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A lot of in the self-improvement niche, a lot of like the self-improvement community on

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YouTube especially, a lot of people treat self-improvement as their entire life.

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And he explained it very well and I recommend watching that video if you're interested in

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what I'm saying.

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Basically, he was saying it's kind of like the metaphor or the analogy of a knight in

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shining armor in the dungeon of the castle that's constantly sharpening his blade and

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cleaning his armor and training and doing a lot of push-ups while there's a war going

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on outside of the castle.

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He's doing all this improvements, but he's not actually helping out on the war.

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And so after watching that video, I realized I didn't have a hobby.

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All I was doing all day is just self-improvement.

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I literally just wake up right away, I drink the water with salt and supplements in it,

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take a cold shower and then I work on the business or the YouTube channel.

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And I guess the YouTube channel could be considered a hobby, but I don't see it as a hobby.

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I see it as what I'm actually doing.

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But so after watching that video, I realized that I didn't actually have a hobby and I

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didn't know if I was actually like living a happy life.

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And so I was kind of worried and then over the next couple of days, I really just started

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thinking about it a lot.

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And then I realized that I came to the conclusion after a couple of days that this is my hobby.

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Self-improvement is my hobby.

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And that's really, it was really good for me to come to that conclusion because I was

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really struggling with that question of, am I even happy?

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And then I realized that self-improvement is my hobby.

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Like I enjoy improving myself constantly.

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And so that brings me back to the YouTube channel.

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That's my main focus now.

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I'm starting to take YouTube a lot more seriously.

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And I'm starting to actually create a lot higher quality content.

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And the thing about that is I originally learned about it in a book called 10X is easier than

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2X to focus on quality over quantity.

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And I didn't really want to actually do that when it came to creating content because I

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was selfish.

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I was really selfish on YouTube or on podcasting, YouTube, TikTok, all that stuff.

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I was selfish.

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I was just pumping out the content, high quantity, but it all sucked.

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And as a result, I wasn't getting the results that I wanted on the channels.

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And the thing is, if I didn't even want to watch the YouTube videos or the TikToks or

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the shorts or the podcasts that I was actually putting out, how can I expect other people

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to watch it?

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And so that's what I really questioned.

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And that's why if you go back on this podcast to episode 100, episode 104, really over the

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since like episode 80, I think from episode 80 to 104, I was really struggling with, am

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I even doing the right thing?

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Am I just wasting my time pumping out quantity when I should be focusing on quality?

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And I'm very glad I made the leap to focus on quality because after I just stopped the

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season one of the podcast and focused on making higher quality videos, I discovered that my

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friend in my class has a YouTube channel and it's a very successful YouTube channel.

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And so after realizing that, I was extremely excited because I just found my mentor.

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He's my mentor now.

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And so I told myself, I'm going to listen to every single thing he says and take action

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on everything.

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And that's what I did.

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If you look at the first episode on this new season, which is called the first step to

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self-improvement, and you look at the show art or the thumbnail on that episode, that

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was like kind of my first thumbnail that I've made.

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And if you look at the episode that I'm going to be posting on December what day?

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It's going to be December 8th.

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That is where I'm at.

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That thumbnail, if you look on YouTube, that thumbnail is where I've gotten after around

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20 days of listening to his advice.

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And there was an entire week that I spent not even listening to his advice because I

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was out of town.

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I was on vacation.

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I was at Dominican Republic and I'll get to that a little bit later.

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But one of the early quotes that I heard was, if you want to fast track your way to success,

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get a mentor.

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Like having a mentor allows you to get to success the fastest.

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And so I never really had a mentor other than reading books.

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And so I was extremely happy when I got an actual mentor for YouTube.

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And so that's what I've been doing.

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I've been focusing on making better thumbnails over the past couple of weeks.

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But I've gotten to a point where I'm fairly happy with my thumbnail skills.

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But now I want to focus on my actual recording ability and my storytelling ability and just

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all around my recording skills.

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And so that's pretty much what I do.

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Every single day I go home and create a thumbnail and I email it to myself because I go to school

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and then show my friend.

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So pretty much email it to my school account, my school email.

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And then I pull it up every single day and show my friend and I get daily feedback from

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him.

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And that allows me to grow super fast.

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So my thumbnails have gotten a lot better.

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It was just in like 20 days.

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And I was just telling my friend Franklin about how if I wasn't, if I wasn't, if I didn't

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have a mentor to tell me exactly what I needed to do, it would have probably taken at least

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three months to get to the point where I had my, where I'm with the thumbs.

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So it's, it's got, it's helped me a lot getting, having a mentor.

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And as a result, I've been focusing on creating the highest quality thumbnails and highest

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quality videos on the YouTube.

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And my mentor has helped me a lot with that.

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But I want to get into back to the podcast.

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I want to talk about how it's actually one of the things that I said I was going to do

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a while ago is be a guest on a podcast.

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And I did.

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I became a guest on a podcast.

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And I believe I talked about it on the last episode of like the last episode on this podcast

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called changes.

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And then it was like new plans for the future.

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And I talked on a podcast called the personal growth project by Abigail Lang.

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And she had me on and interviewed me.

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And I think at the time I thought it was a great interview and when I was reviewing it,

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I realized I stutter a lot.

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And I might actually stutter a lot on this podcast as well.

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And I don't realize it, which shows the value of reviewing your content and realizing where

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you need to improve and where you got to get better at.

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So that's another way to get higher quality is to review my YouTube videos.

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And re listen to them and re listen to the podcast as well.

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See where I need to get better at speaking.

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So if you want to check out that episode, I definitely recommend it.

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Maybe you're from that episode.

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Maybe you came from that episode.

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So if you if you did welcome, but if you didn't and you want to go check that episode out,

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it's episode 85 on the personal growth project.

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But I also want to I'm going to keep changing the topics because I've got a few things I

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want to talk about today.

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And when I went to funnel hacking life a couple months ago, which is a business conference

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for entrepreneurs, Russell Brunson, the speaker, the action, the person that organized it,

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but he spoke and he talked about Napoleon Hill, who if you've never heard of Napoleon

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Hill, he's the author of think and grow rich, which is one of the most successful self help

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books ever released.

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And it was he was he wrote it in like the 1930s and during like the Great Depression.

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And there was a whole story that Russell Brunson talked about at the event about the law of

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success.

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And it was basically how Napoleon Hill interviewed 2030 100, he talked to a lot of successful

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people, Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller, Henry Ford, extremely successful people.

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And he figured out what is the secret to success?

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Like what is the formula for success?

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And so he actually wrote, he studied them for like 2030 years and wrote a book called

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the law of success and 16 lessons.

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And it's the entire formula for success.

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And I definitely recommend that book.

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I'm about halfway done reading it.

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And the first lesson in that book is called the master.

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And I was familiar with that term, the mastermind, it's like where you kind of get a group of

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people to gather that are all thinking about the same thing and all have similar goals

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and you gather and then you kind of share information.

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And I realized that the mastermind was a very beneficial thing to do.

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But I didn't realize how powerful it is.

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And he basically talked about how you actually create a second mind when or a third mind when

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you are gathered with another person and you're like in harmony with them and you're thinking

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about similar things.

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So that's the mastermind.

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And as a result, I started going to the park with my friend Franklin again, because both

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him and I are on this path to success, we're on the journey to success and we're both

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on self-approval.

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And we actually stopped going to the park together because I thought that it was a good

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idea to stop talking about things, to stop sharing your plans.

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Which the reason behind that was because I thought that I wasn't actually making enough

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progress.

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And there was some truth in that because I was just too much talking and not enough

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taking enough action.

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But we started the mastermind again and I'm very glad we did because I learned a lot.

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And before I get into what I learned about that, I want to talk about how I went to the

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Dominican Republic.

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And no, you know what, let's not talk about that because it doesn't really matter.

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I just went to the Dominican Republic and it was a vacation for family vacation and

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we were on the beach in the mix.

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But whatever.

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I got a nice refresh from that.

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But I want to talk about what I learned from a mastermind with Franklin yesterday.

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And I realized there is one thing that he told me.

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He's watching a full discipline guide by Hamza on YouTube.

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And one of the things he said to me, Franklin told me that one of the things he learned

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on that full discipline guide is to be impeccable with the little things and to have a clutter

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free desk, have a clear working environment.

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And so I realized, oh, my desk that I work at is full of clutter and it's dirty.

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And so that was the first actionable step that I took when I got home from that mastermind.

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I actually cleared off my entire desk and now I only have the essentials, which is two

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lamps and that's for my eyesight vision purposes as well as recording purposes.

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It has better lighting.

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And then I have my keyboard, my mouse, the mouse pad and the PC and my headset.

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And that's pretty much all I have on my desk and the monitor also.

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But oh, and my journal and pen and my water bottle.

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bones and it's a very minimalistic feel.

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a minimal environment and have clutter free.

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I instantly thought back to when I got rid of my bed and I got rid of my dresser and

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I basically cleared my entire room and made my entire room empty and had and replaced

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my bed with a mat and I started sleeping on a mat and now my and then I like basically

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have nothing in my room except for like my mat and a fan and like a journal.

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And so I started thinking about how that affected me and my focus and my six, like my discipline

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and all that, and it definitely positively affected massively.

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And so I started thinking about how my closet is actually cluttered.

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my room.

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out my entire closet and I got rid of everything in that.

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And in my closet, I probably had like a hundred books or maybe not a hundred books, but probably

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like 50 books all stacked up and like four or five stacks.

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cleared he had like thousands of books in his closet and he actually rented a dumpster

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and cleared out all of his books except for like five.

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He chose five books to keep and cleared out all of the rest.

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And that was one of the best things that he did.

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And I never took action on that until yesterday when I cleared out all of my books and I didn't

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throw them away.

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I just put them up in my attic.

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I just have my dresser, a filing cabinet and my blankets on top of my dresser, my pillows

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on top of my filing cabinet.

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And then I have my four, I chose five books, which the five books I chose is called The

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Law of Success in 16 Lessons, Reality Transurfing.

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And then I chose Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson.

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And then the fourth book I chose was called Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins.

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before.

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So I wanted to keep it downstairs.

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And so that's pretty much all I have in my closet.

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It definitely feels great.

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I 100% recommend you to clear out your entire closet and your room and just declutter everything,

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get rid of everything and go minimalistic and be minimal.

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So I've got a few more things to talk about.

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Another thing that I learned is about kind of discipline, but also making kind of training

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yourself to love doing the hard things.

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And I learned about this on an Andrew Huberman video.

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He basically said, don't tell people your plans.

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And this was one of the reasons why I didn't want to have a mastermind with Franklin anymore

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a little while back, but I didn't watch the Andrew Huberman video until like a couple

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days ago.

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And Andrew Huberman explained it very well.

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If you tell people your plans prior to doing like taking action on it and you're actually

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not gonna, your like chances or odds of doing it, of actually going through with your plans

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are much lower because of the like good feelings that it rise or because of the like good reaction,

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positive reactions from the people that you tell.

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And basically the actionable or the actual tips that he gave were to avoid a dopamine

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peak before or after doing hard things.

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So for example, let's say you are gonna choose your, okay, let's say you want to run a marathon

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and you decide that you're gonna start training for a marathon.

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And before you start training for the marathon, you tell your friends, I'm going to run a

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marathon and then they like congratulate you and they say, oh, you can do it and they get

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really excited for you.

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That is that creates a dopamine spike.

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And as a result, you're actually your chances of actually doing the training for the marathon

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drastically drop.

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So avoid dopamine spikes before doing hard things.

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And then also afterwards, he said, avoid a hot fudge Sunday after the marathon.

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Avoid immediately rewarding yourself after doing hard things.

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And he actually brought up a study of children who liked to draw.

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So people, so children who enjoyed drawing and actually did it on their own without being

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told to, they just, it was their hobby.

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That's what they enjoyed to do.

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And so the scientists gathered or researchers gathered a group of children who enjoyed to

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draw.

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And once the children like finished their drawing, the researchers gave them a golden

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star.

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And so as a result, the kids actually got rewarded and they had a dopamine rush like

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a dopamine spike because they liked the golden, like the golden star.

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They enjoyed it because that would make them feel good.

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And so then they drew, like they kept drawing more and more, they gave them golden stars

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and then they actually stopped giving them golden stars.

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And as a result, the children stopped drawing.

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They actually stopped doing their hobby, the thing that they enjoyed to do because they

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stopped getting rewarded for it.

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So the two main things that I've been thinking about lately is to stop doing, like avoid

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dopamine spikes before and after doing the hard work.

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And then the actionable step that he said is to try and get dopamine spikes during the

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hard work.

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Try and cultivate a dopamine spike while you're doing the hard work.

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And the way he did it was he told an affirmation, which I didn't memorize the affirmation entirely,

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but it goes something along the lines of, I am doing this by choice because I love it.

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Like I am choosing to do this because I love to do it.

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And so it makes a lot of sense because especially like a year ago when I was biking to the gym

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every single morning in the dark, in the cold, in the rain, it didn't matter rain or shine.

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I was biking to the gym every single morning and I would always do it.

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And then every once in a while, I would just be like super hype while I was biking, especially

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if it was raining, I would just get super hype.

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I'd be like, let's go.

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This is so awesome.

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Like it would be a lot more.

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It would be more like let's freaking go this is so or like I'm freaking hype or I'm a

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beast like you know, and I would just get super hype just biking, especially in the

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rain.

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And like I would cultivate dopamine spikes during the hard work.

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And that was completely by accident.

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Like I was purposely getting hype, but I didn't realize what I was doing of training myself

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to enjoy doing the hard things.

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So it kind of clarifies a lot.

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And now I actually use it to my advantage.

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Now every single time I'm like doing a set, like lifting or I'm like running or anytime

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I'm doing something hard, I just get like I try to cultivate a dopamine spike.

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And I found that it's actually helped a lot.

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And he said, do it during the moments of like highest tension.

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So one of the things that I do is especially when I'm like sitting down to do work, like

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work on the YouTube or work on editing or thumbnails, like all that stuff.

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Usually I'm able to, a lot of times I'm able to just get right into it, but a lot of times

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I like am really tempted to just watch YouTube or do something that I shouldn't actually

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be doing.

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And so during those moments, those are the moments of highest tension.

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That's when I should be saying to myself, I'm doing this by choice.

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Because I love it.

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So that's one of the best tips that I've learned over the past couple of weeks.

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And I've been, I've actually been slacking over the past couple of months during the

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school year because I thought that I wasn't going to be able to maintain my routine or

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not necessarily routine, but I thought I wasn't going to be able to maintain cardio during

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the school day or the school year.

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And that was just dumb.

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And now I have a new routine of doing cardio and, and go into the gym, but that's kind

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of a sad tangent.

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And I want to talk about the last thing I want to talk about today.

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And it's the YouTube.

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I am starting, like I said, I've started to take it a lot more seriously.

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And one of the things I realized I got to do is I have to start coming up with great

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ideas.

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And so what I've been doing is like, there's two things in the youth in like two skills

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and two skills for being a YouTuber that you can't necessarily outsource.

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And it's creating or it's coming up with great ideas.

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Yes, you can outsource coming up with ideas, but you can't really outsource coming up with

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great ideas that are unique and original to you.

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For example, one of the things that is unique to me, and yes, a lot of other people have

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it, this like topic, what that I'm about to reveal is social anxiety and sweaty hands

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and sweaty armpits in social situations.

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That's a unique thing to me.

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And that's, that's one part of the coin.

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The other side is if the, if you can have great editing, a great thumbnail, but if the

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idea is bad, then it, the video sucks.

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So that's why I'm dedicating like 10 to 15 minutes every single day, just sitting in

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silence with my pen and journal coming up with as many YouTube video ideas as possible.

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So that's one of the skills that I like can't really be outsourced and the other skill that

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can't be outsourced is actually recording and actually being in front of a camera.

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And so that's also why I'm dedicating time every single day sitting in front of a camera

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practicing my like being on YouTube.

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And so like I said, I'm getting a lot more serious and going back to the idea generation,

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you can have a very saturated idea and it's not going to get very many views.

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For example, the first couple of videos that I was making were like the first three steps

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of self improvement, discipline, like discipline, meditation and breaking up with your phone.

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Those are very saturated topics.

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Like a lot of people are making videos about that.

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And so not, so it's my videos are not going to do very well.

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What I realized is I need to come up with video ideas that I would be embarrassed, scared

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or ashamed if other people that I knew, especially my parents and friends, if they found out

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about that video that I made and watched it or even saw the title.

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Like those are the types of videos I've got to be making in the future, which the social

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anxiety topic is one of them.

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And another topic is mediocre parents.

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That is one of the, that's one of the topics that's very controversial and I'm very nervous

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to release and I just recorded it a couple of days ago and then I re-recorded it today

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because it was not as good as I wanted it to be.

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So that's what I realized.

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I had to be extremely prolific on YouTube and like be like true to myself and speak

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about ideas that I would be scared to release.

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So those are the types of ideas that I generate.

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Things that I would be scared, embarrassed or like worried or like ashamed if actually

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ashamed is not actually, yeah, in my use, in this use of ashamed, it's a good use, but

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I'm not going to like post bad, like harmful, offensive content, like not that kind of ashamed.

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Like those like the afraid, worried, nervous, embarrassed and ashamed, those are the emotions

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that I need to be drawn up when I come up with ideas.

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So that's what, that's another big thing that I have changed lately on the YouTube.

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So this is the monthly update.

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It's December 3rd when I'm recording this podcast and I'm going to be, I'm going to

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be recording the monthly update every single month.

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So you can expect a January update and I believe for the time being I'm going to be posting

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the bonuses still, but I don't really like posting bonuses because it's kind of recycling

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the content that I'm making.

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But for the time being I'm going to be posting the bonuses just to kind of maintain some

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level of high frequency in the upload schedule because monthly uploads I feel is not as good

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as weekly.

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But that's pretty much it for the episode.

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So check out the just, I don't even know what I'm saying, but the next update will be January.

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So have a good month.