So I have this rule on my YouTube channel that I initially employed because I wanted
to build my, I wanted to train my brain to love the act of doing the work and to love
the process of building YouTube videos.
And the rule is to not check my analytics until Thursdays.
So I post my videos on Fridays and so that means that I don't check my analytics until
six days after it's posted and the day before the next one post.
So this gives me the opportunity to post an entire good video and then work an entire
week on a brand new video with a clean mindset without any prior like alterings from the
looking at the analytics from the previous video.
So let me explain.
If you go, if you're posting once a week like I am and you post on Fridays, let's say that
you decide to look at the analytics right away.
You post your video on Friday and then you look at your analytics on Saturday.
And first of all, oftentimes in my videos, the spike doesn't even happen until a couple
days later or it's like a slow buildup.
So like the actual final result is not till like four or five days after the post.
So you're probably going to get a bad, like you're probably going to get a bad reward
from that.
You're going to look at those analytics and you're going to think like, oh, I did bad.
And then you're, that's going to affect your process on the next video.
Excuse me.
You don't want to affect your process on the next video and you don't want that.
So it's best if you just don't look at the analytics until you're done with the next video
because then once you check those analytics and they're not as good as you thought, then
you've already finished the next video.
So then you can be like, oh, but this next video that's going to post tomorrow is so
much better.
So it like, then you can completely dismiss those analytics or you can just celebrate
in those other analytics.
For example, two times so far, this has saved me because when I posted my video on how to
get jacked in high school, it did not do good.
And I didn't know it didn't do good because I didn't check until I finished the next video.
But my mindset was on, was still on the old video, which was like my monk mode video.
So let me, okay, let me clear things up.
The first video in this like story that I'm going to tell was monk mode.
I got 800 views on that.
The second video, which actually is a lot because I'm used to getting like 10 views
or five, like actually I posted my first hundred videos and they got zero views.
So 800 views is a lot.
That's the standard right now for, for the time being for this episode.
So the monk mode 800 views and then the next video that I posted was the how to get jacked
in high school.
That got 300 views.
Actually I think it got a lot worse.
I think it got like 150 at the time that I ended up checking it one week later.
And then the next video after that was the, I don't actually remember if this is all the
right order, but the next video after that was the delete your social media account video.
Check out 1200 views.
So that one was my best video pop yet.
And then after that, the next one after that was the one that I want to focus on in a little
bit, which is the change in your room.
It was the one that I talked about to time you max.
So this whole thing, let's go back now that you know the order.
I built my monk mode video from the wind prior, which was a good video.
It's like 200 views.
So that means that I was in good mind.
And then I built that monk mode video and then I posted it.
And then I didn't see, I wasn't really thinking about the previous week's analytics from before
the monk mode while it's building the next one, which was the jacked this.
Okay.
I'm doing a terrible job explaining this.
I'm just, I'm not even going to try anymore.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to say that when you wait an entire week, when you delay
your checking of the analytics for an entire week, what happens is you can easily dismiss
a negative result because the next video has already been produced, which is if you're
doing things right, like I am, you're making the next video 10 times better than the one
before.
So you can dismiss a negative result from the previous video or from the previous week
analytics because you've already improved so much better because that's not your standard
anymore.
So you don't have to tie it to your network, to your, your self worth or your identity.
And then another reason why this is so valuable is because I'm training myself to focus.
I'm training my mind to love the work and not the reward because if you check your analytics
often, you're basically training your mind to say, Hey, I'm only doing this for the reward.
I'm only doing this if I get a good reward, if I get a lot of views, if I get a lot of
subscribers, but that's not a very long term thing because you can't directly control your
view count.
You can't directly control your subscribers.
But what you can do is you can control whether you're getting better every single day.
You can control whether you're posting a better video than last.
And so you can train like what I'm doing is I'm training myself to make sure that I'm
posting a better video every single week.
And I'm training myself to focus on the things that I can control, which is making better
videos.
And what I cannot control is the view count.
I can't control that directly.
But the funny thing is when I make better videos that ends up getting better view counts.
And I want to talk about how this also saved me because my video that I posted last week,
I believe that that was my best video I've ever posted up to that point.
And I was excited because the video that I posted before that was my social media video
got 1.2 thousand views.
But the one that I posted last week was so much better.
And I thought it was such a better concept and such a better unique original idea.
I thought it was going to get like 10,000 views.
And so I posted and I don't check analytics for the whole week.
I have extensions on my Chrome browser to block all analytics.
So I can still use my YouTube studio and all that, but I don't get spoiled by looking
at the analytics.
And I basically go the whole week being really excited because I improved a lot.
My last video was very good.
So now I'm going to make another video and it's going to be even better.
And I made that video.
It's posting tomorrow.
It's being scheduled tomorrow as of recording this.
By the time you guys listen to this episode on the podcast, it's going to be long before
that.
So this episode is probably not going to release until February.
And I'm recording this on January 25th.
So it is, this video is called How to Build Discipline in High School.
That's what it's called right now.
And I really think that this is my best video I've ever recorded.
And it's also the longest video.
It took me like 40 minutes of recording and I ended up cutting it down to 13 minutes.
And it took me probably like 15 to 20 hours of editing.
Actually not that long.
But I did spend a long time.
I spent all of Sunday morning.
The way I work my days are I have two deep work sessions.
So I have one session in the morning from around 6.30 until 10 at the latest.
I usually work until I'm just like, you can tell when you're like, you lose all of your
creativity.
So I work until then, which is usually like one to two, well, like one to three hours
depending on the day.
And it's getting longer and longer the more I practice this because it's a skill.
Deep work is a skill.
And then the next deep work session is after my one hour walk, which is after breakfast
and after a meditation.
So I basically meditate, eat breakfast and then go on a one hour walk.
And that all basically heals me back up to work again for another deep work session.
And that's another one to three hours.
So I basically work on this video all week from Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
and I just finished it this morning.
And I'm really excited about it.
And the thing is that I'm training my brain not to care about the analytics because I
checked my analytics after I scheduled this video.
So the how to build your discipline video that I am scheduled for tomorrow, I already
scheduled it this morning.
And then after that, I checked the analytics from the week prior.
And you know how much I got for context.
The week, the video before that got 1.2 thousand views.
And you know how many views this one got?
68.
68 views.
Now, if I wasn't training my mind to love the work and if I was training my mind against
that and to train for the reward, then I would be extremely devastated.
But I'm not because two reasons.
I love the work.
I got so much value just from building the video.
And another thing is that I already am approved so much more.
That's not tied to my identity anymore.
How to build your discipline?
That one is tied to my identity right now because it's so fresh.
It's like that is my peak performance right now.
But in one week, that's not going to be anymore because I'm going to prove again.
So that's not going to be part of my standard for myself.
So 68 views and I don't mind.
It happens.
No one said this journey was going to be easy.
And that's what I'm excited to tell you guys because the moral of the story is when I was
going on a walk, this happened a couple of weeks ago.
I was going on a walk and what happened was that thought popped in my head.
It was something that I heard on a YouTube video a couple of days before Mr. Beast said
something along the lines of he had a small creator mindset.
When he was on the up and coming, so when he had like 20,000 subscribers, 1000 subscribers,
when he was really a small creator, he had the small creator mindset.
He thought that his videos deserved one million views.
So in hindsight, when he was looking back at that time, he knew that they did not deserve
one million views and they were because they were bad.
They were just bad.
He had the small creator mindset.
He was blinded by his attachment to those videos that he couldn't see the truth that
they were actually bad.
And so that is kind of what I'm experiencing also.
I think that my videos should be so much better.
I should get so much better results, but they're actually bad right now.
I know that they're bad right now because obviously I got 68 views on the week before
even though that was my peak workload.
So that just tells me that I just got to get better.
That's another thing that I'm helping fight against the small creator mindset is to make
sure that I don't check my analytics until a week after.
So I'm not extremely hyper focused on the results.
So I'm just focused entirely on getting better work done, getting better thumbnails, getting
better intro, getting a better recording, getting better storytelling.
There are infinite things that I can get better every single time.
And this storytelling is helping a lot.
I actually am really glad that I got this book that I'm reading right now.
It's the Power of Personal Storytelling.
I'm not even halfway done with it and it's already started to revolutionize my life.
The amount of confidence that I've built just from taking action on those steps is immense.
It's insane.
inside the story.
I think that was something.