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It's 2024 and let's recap this past month.

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So last time I updated you guys on my progress was December, it was around December 1st and

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it's been a month.

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A month has passed and I gotta admit I'm not really used to pie casting.

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I'm used to being able to repeat my phrases over and over and over until I say it the

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perfect way, which is what I've been doing on the YouTube channel.

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But let's talk about the YouTube channel.

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Like I said on the last update, I was starting to focus on the YouTube channel a lot more

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now.

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And over the past month I really did start to focus on it and I've been posting one

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video every single week and making sure that it's better every single time that I post.

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And I've definitely seen some results from that because I'm starting to make a lot better

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higher quality videos and I'm also starting to get a lot more views.

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So my first real video that I posted that was actually me really trying was called Mediocrity

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is not your own model.

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Got about 100 views from that.

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And then the second one was a daily routine video about my daily routine.

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And I got around 200 views.

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And then the third one, the most recent one that I made was called Monk Mode is Not Enough.

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And that one was my best video that I've ever made.

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And in my opinion, the best thumbnail that I've ever made.

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And it got 700 views.

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So I'm starting to pick it up and I'm starting to learn how to be a lot better editing.

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I'm starting to get a lot better pictures for my videos and my thumbnail creating is

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getting a lot better.

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My idea generating is getting a lot better.

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And one of the biggest reasons for that is my daily routine is extremely optimal for

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YouTube.

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And let me just walk you through what I do.

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I basically wake up in the morning, bike down to the park and hit a workout with my gymnastics

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rings.

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I like to use the gymnastics rings because it feels cooler and feels more extreme or

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whatever.

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It just is a cool vibe being out in the park in the morning early.

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And then once I do that, bike home and start working.

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And I go downstairs and what I'm doing is either editing or thumbnail creating or editing

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my thumbnails.

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So I work on that until at the latest 10 o'clock, but I usually work on that until I'm done or

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10 o'clock, whichever happens first.

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And then at 10 o'clock is when I go upstairs and cook breakfast and break my fast.

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And on those 10 o'clock days, I probably have like a maybe around a 20 hour fast because

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I don't even start eating until after I'm done cooking.

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And then I break my fast with bone broth and then I meditate for 30 minutes and then I

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actually start eating after that.

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So it's probably not till like 11 o'clock until I start eating.

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And then once I'm done eating every single day, I always go on a walk.

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And the reason why I started adding walking into my daily routine is because I read in

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a book Law of Success in 16 Lessons, Napoleon Hill actually went on a three mile walk every

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wait no, not three miles, a 10 mile walk every single day.

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The reason why I said three was because it's I asked my parents and they said it's probably

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around like three hours.

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So he walks for like three hours every single day.

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And well, he walked.

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He's not alive anymore.

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But he is a very successful individual or he was a very successful individual.

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And so I read that and I was like, oh, maybe I should start walking because I had heard

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a couple times now at that point from different sources that walking reduces brain fog.

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Walking is extremely good for you.

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Like I've heard from many reputable sources that I trust that walking is a very crucial

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thing and a very important thing to have in your day.

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And so after I saw that I started walking one hour.

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I didn't want to do the full three hours, but I started walking one hour every single

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day.

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And that's basically me doing a digestion walk so I can digest the food.

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But it's also I always have a purpose for that walk.

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So some purposes that I've had over the past week were idea generating.

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So coming up with the best ideas for YouTube videos possible.

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And then once I find the best idea, then or like I choose the best idea for that week,

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I take time in the walk to actually brainstorm how the video should be structured.

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And basically get my mind into the zone of that video.

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So then once I'm done with the walk, I can go downstairs and straight away record the

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video.

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That's what I did with this video actually.

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I went on a walk just before this for one hour.

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And then I was just thinking about what happened over the past month during that walk.

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And then now that I'm in the zone, my mind is basically structured into that kind of

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thinking process.

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Now I'm able to get into the flow state a lot easier when I'm actually recording, which

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is very good for the quality of the episode.

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So that's something very impactful that I added to my daily routine, which actually has helped

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so much.

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And then there's other things that I do.

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For example, if I don't have any purpose for the walk, my purpose becomes a recovery

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walk.

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I just completely detach from everything work and then just be present.

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And that helps a lot because then I can get deeper into the work.

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And so after I'm done with that walk, like I said, I record them.

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I usually record, but I really only record once.

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I really only record maybe two or three times a week because I record seven episodes in a

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batch so I can do the daily practice episodes for this podcast.

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And then I, on another day, I record the main episode or the main, the main video for that

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week for the YouTube channel.

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And so on days that I don't record, I just edit or create a thumbnail.

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And I have been creating thumbnails for every single practice video, which has helped me

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improve my actual thumbnail creating abilities.

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And so I do spend a significant time creating thumbnails, but my most time consuming thing

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is editing hands down because the process that I do is I edit the video all the way

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through just the raw footage and I cut out all of the non-essential pieces of it.

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So basically the stuff that takes away from the video, like the silences and the like

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if I cough or basic things like that.

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But also if I go on a tangent or I say something that just doesn't need to be said or if I

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repeat things a lot, then that's, I edit those out.

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So that's like the first step to editing that I do.

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And then I go through and add in pictures.

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And then I add in like videos, pictures.

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I basically watch it from the beginning.

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And then just while I'm like watching, I come up with pictures and videos to put in while

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I'm watching.

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And it takes probably like on my last video, the Monk Mode video, it's, I spent like five

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hours on the first minute of the video.

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And it was like a six minute video, but I didn't spend nearly as long on the next five

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minutes.

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But I spent a decent amount of time on that.

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And then once I'm done like creating the imagery, then I go back again and put in the music.

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And then I'm done with the video.

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And that has definitely been pretty rewarding because it's really satisfying just seeing

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the final product.

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And it's also satisfying seeing cool edits that I make and just actually doing it.

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So I'm not sure if I actually said how much subscribers I have on the YouTube channel,

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but I have 48 subscribers and about 1.5,000 views from my new videos.

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And so I'm doing a lot better than I was a month ago.

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And I'm definitely starting to get a hang of it.

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And in my, I can't remember if I, I recorded another video similar to this right before

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this podcast.

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So I can't remember what I've said in this or not, but pretty much some things I'm looking

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forward to in the future are I'm creating a new office.

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My dad is helping me paint.

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My dad painted a brand new portion in my basement and I'm going to move my office.

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I'm basically going to create my own office in that area in the basement.

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That's going to be extremely helpful.

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And some more things that I'm focusing on is my deep work, which I had never read the

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book Deep Work by Cal Newport before, but I'm starting to read it now on January 1st.

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And it is definitely important.

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I always knew that, all right, well not always, but over the past couple weeks, I definitely

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knew how important Deep Work was because once I started getting serious about the YouTube

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channel, I wanted to get deep into editing videos.

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And so I can actually finish it in time.

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And so I started making changes like I quit YouTube, like I quit watching YouTube and I

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quit keeping up with other people.

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Like my friend Franklin, I used to check on his YouTube videos and his channel analytics.

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Fairly common, like maybe once a day or once every week or so, but now I haven't checked

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on it since I don't even remember the one the last time I've checked on it.

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And all of, I don't really check YouTube or I don't check my email anymore.

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I don't check, well I do check my email, but I don't check it very often anymore.

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And I don't check my phone very often anymore either, which I haven't really been doing

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it anyways.

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But the point is that I've started to cut out a lot of shallow work is what he describes

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it as in the book.

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And I've been doing that.

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I've been starting to take action on getting into deeper work, even though I haven't even

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read the book yet.

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Like I just started it last night.

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And then, sorry, I just got distracted.

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That's why this new office is going to be very important because then I won't have to get

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distracted by things that are outside of my control.

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But I'm really focusing on my deep work ability because I know that is exactly what's going

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to get me onto the next level of this YouTube channel.

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And some things in my health part of my life, my physical part of my life is I'm, like I

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said, I started doing gymnastics rings and I switched my workout from my normal lifting

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workout, which was like push, pull, legs.

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I was doing like three sets of everything.

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And now I'm doing on my gymnastics rings, I am doing 10 sets of pull ups, 10 sets of

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10.

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So right now I'm not strong enough to actually do the full 10 sets of 10.

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So what I do is I do 10 sets.

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I do every single set of 10 until I can't do another pull up.

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So usually I fail around like right now I'm failing around like seven or eight pull ups

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and then I do cheat pull ups.

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So I basically like jump kind of like help myself up the pull up with my feet by jumping.

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But then I like do a controlled descent.

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So that's helping me get stronger.

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So I'm doing 10 pull ups or 10 sets of pull ups on my pull day.

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And then I do like some chin ups too and like this body weight row thing.

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And then on my push days, I do 10 sets of dips.

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So basically the same process where I, if I fail, then I jump.

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Well, actually I haven't been jumping.

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I've just been doing 10 sets of dips as many reps as I could with the most being 10.

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So like the first two sets, I'm usually able to get 10.

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And then from there I get dropped down to like eight reps and then seven.

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And then by the end I'm probably only able to do like six reps.

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So that's actually, I've just been doing that because I feel like I've been kind of

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slacking my whole time I've been lifting because I only do like three sets of each exercise.

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Even though I do do a lot of exercises, I feel like the most important thing is the

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main exercises like dips, pull ups and squats.

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And I actually haven't implemented that thought process to my leg day.

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I still do my normal leg day, which is like three sets of squats.

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And then like quad extensions, hamstring curls, calf raises, all that stuff.

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But three sets of everything.

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But I definitely feel like it's very important to start doing 10 sets of pull ups and 10

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sets of dips.

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Just because I want to get stronger at both of those.

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But also the reason, the real reason why I started doing that was because I read the

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book called Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins and that basically made me realize or made

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me rethink my workout routine.

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And I came up with that.

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But I did start doing gymnastics rings before I read that book.

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So I don't know.

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That's basically where I'm at with that.

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But I also started training obliques because I realized that I never trained those before

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and they look awesome and mine are super underdeveloped.

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So moving forward, I definitely want to be making a lot better videos.

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And I also want to minimize my emails even more.

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I want to unsubscribe from everything that's not essential, like absolutely essential.

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And I also want to break the habit of, well, I was going to say break the habit of checking

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my email, but I don't really check it that often anymore.

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But I definitely want to improve my personal email inbox because I get so much emails from

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that and it's just a waste.

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It's like a waste of my focus.

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So I'm definitely going to be going through and deleting all of, like unsubscribing from

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all that stuff.

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But the one issue is that my email got added to the college board newsletter thing.

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So I get like hundreds of emails from colleges and just the other month I figured out how

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to unsubscribe from all of them, but they still are able to send me emails if they sent me

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them before.

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So that's why I have to unsubscribe individually.

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So it's a whole thing, but definitely want to be improving my focus, my deep work a lot

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more because I know that is exactly what is going to get me on to the next level as a

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YouTuber.

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So one of the biggest things that I'm really focusing on, like analytics, on the analytics

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side of things, one of my first goals is 1000 subscribers because at 1000 subscribers you're

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able to monetize.

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And for many months now, my biggest thing that I wanted was to start making money because

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then it would be like really officially my job and it would be official.

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So that's why 1000 subscribers is my main goal right now.

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And I definitely think that I could get it within at least, I definitely think that

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it's possible to get it in one month, if not two or three months because I'm, I got 15

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subscribers from my one video, my most recent one, the monk mode one.

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And that was probably, that was only 700 views.

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And so as long as I keep improving my video quality more and more and get more and more

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views, then hopefully I'll be getting a lot more subscribers.

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But I know that that's not my focus.

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The analytics are not my focus.

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My real focus is just making better videos every single week.

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And I'm already like, I can already tell that by the time I'm done, by the time I start

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making the next episode, I'm already thinking of so much better ideas for it that I can

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already tell that I'm getting so much better very quick on YouTube.

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But like I said, I'm not worried about the analytics.

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I actually downloaded a, I've already had plenty of YouTube extensions downloaded onto

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my Chrome just to make it so I don't see anything on my homepage.

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Like I here, I'll actually redo all the extensions that I have.

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So I have view count, hider for YouTube, unhook, remove YouTube, and then I can't read the

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rest.

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But it's basically like a extension that removes pretty much everything from YouTube, like

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thumbnails.

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It basically just leaves, it removes everything except for video titles.

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And it removes everything from the home screen also.

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So that means that you have to manually and purposely search in the search bar what video

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you want.

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So you can't just accidentally watch a video.

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And then I have hide YouTube viewers and ratings, and then hide YouTube thumbnails, and then

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distraction free, distraction free YouTube, distraction free for YouTube.

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And then the most recent one that I just recently downloaded was because I started doing a lot

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better on YouTube.

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So I wanted to hide my analytics and make it so I can't see my analytics right away after

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I post the video because I, like I said in the last monthly update, I have been really

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focusing on when I, when I receive dopamine.

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And so you don't want to receive dopamine right before doing a hard thing or right after.

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You want to receive it during the hard thing.

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And so if you get rewarded for something hard that you did right after, for example, you

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get, you just ran a marathon and you get rewarded by drinking a hot fudge sundae right after.

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That will actually make it so you're less likely or at least not want to do it for free

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again.

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So you're only getting, that makes it so you're wanting to do it for the purpose of the reward

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and not for the purpose, not for the sake of actually doing the hard thing.

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So that's why I made it a rule to not check the YouTube analytics until at least three

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days after the video is posted.

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And then when I actually check it, I'm making sure that I'm in the middle of like, well,

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actually when I check it, I make sure that I'm either in the middle of editing a video,

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for example, in two of my videos I've made, I needed a screenshot of my YouTube channel

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page.

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So I make sure that I'm either in the middle of the next episode.

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And so I'm in the middle of editing the next episode, which is a hard thing.

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So then I get rewarded while I'm doing the hard thing.

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Or I just make sure that I'm not doing anything and I just check it purposely.

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And that's helped a lot.

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And that's pretty much it for the monthly update.

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So I hope that you guys are enjoying the daily practice videos.

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I'm not really paying too much attention to that post production of them.

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I don't edit them at all.

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They're just raw footage.

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So I hope that you guys are enjoying the podcast so far.

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I'll see you in February.