One morning I was really doubting myself. I was really doubting my future. My thoughts were like rampaging.
Like it was so crazy. I was like am I gonna achieve my goals? Like am I even doing enough? Am I good enough?
Am I even like is this the right thing for me?
Which is funny because I was extremely confident a couple of weeks ago.
Even like just the day before that.
And so I was walking around the park in the morning. Just literally just like my mind's wild. It's going crazy with doubt.
And you know what I did? All of a sudden I just was like no! No! Screw doubt! Screw doubt!
Doubters are losers and losers doubt. It goes both ways.
Anytime you have doubt obliterate it because you know what? You can't obliterate with logic.
I was walking around. I was like trying to convince myself. I was doubting. But I was trying to convince myself.
Oh! If I just do this. Oh! This is what I'm doing. Oh! Look how good I've gotten. Oh! Like this. That's logic. No.
Logic does not work when you're in an emotional state. You have to bring yourself to this state.
A better emotional state. So when you're doubting you're like oh no. Oh no. The only way to get out of it is with emotion.
Emotion. That's all it takes. And then once you brought yourself to a peaceful calm mind.
Or at least a hype excited mind punching things. That's what I was doing that morning.
I was walking around the park literally a children's playground at five in the morning because that's where I work out.
And I literally right when I had that epiphany punched a metal structure. It hurt really bad.
But you know what I did after that? Ran around the park and then there was like this set of bongos right here that like you know like the drums that it's just at the park.
They had that and I was just like. I was just playing. I was vibing. I brought myself to an emotional level.
That was good enough to listen to logic because I was doubting. I was down here.
I had to raise my emotion to a level that's malleable through logic because I was closed off doubting causes you to close off because that's like your natural instincts.
But you know, know it doesn't. Being excited when you're joyful or hype or excited or literally just run around going crazy in that extremely emotional state.
That's where decisions happen. People make decisions based off of emotion.
So if you can bring yourself to an emotional state, that's when you can actually convince yourself that you are actually going to achieve your goals.
And another thing is that once you're actually like back to emotion, you got to convince yourself through logic and reinforce it because that day, like in the morning I was hype.
I was excited. But then like after a little bit kind of like died down a little bit.
And then I had to literally sit down in my room. This is exactly what I did.
I sat down in my room, took out my journal in my pen, literally just sat there for like 40 minutes drawing pictures and graphs.
Trying to convince myself logically that I'm doing the right thing. And then this is what people who have seen success in my field did.
And this is exactly what I'm doing. So it'll just take a little bit time.
You got to convince yourself logically.
Draw pictures, draw graphs, whatever works for you, just do it.
Like I literally sat there and I was like, okay, what are the traits that I have to develop to achieve my goals?
Well, influence, storytelling, YouTube skills, blah, blah, blah.
I listed literally like 15 traits.
And then I was like, okay, well, I'm familiar with Pareto's law. 80% of your actions give you 20% of the results.
20% of your actions give you 80% of the results.
So I'm like, okay, screw all of these traits. Let me pick three.
So I sit there for like five minutes. I'm like, okay, I pick three. I circle the three most important ones.
And it's patience, influence, and passion.
So then I was like, okay, so what does this mean?
Like how can I draw a picture? Because I like drawing pictures.
So I'm like, okay, so drawing a picture. I'm like, I like drawing a house.
So I'm going to represent these three kind of traits that I want to develop into a house.
So I draw the foundation. I'm like, okay, it's obvious. Patience is the foundation.
Like without patience, everything crumbles.
And then things got a little tricky because I was like, okay, I've got the walls and then I've got the roof.
Which trait is the wall and which trait is the roof between influence and passion?
So I was like, I don't really know. And I remember back to like science class and whatever.
And I was thinking, oh, independent variables and then dependent variables.
Which one is dependent on the other? I don't know. I never understood that stuff.
So I was stumped. Like that didn't help me. So I was like, I don't know.
And so then I asked myself, which one can go without the other?
And then which one amplifies the other? So it was pretty obvious after that influence can go without passion.
But passion can't go without influence. So like you can have all the passion in the world,
but if you don't have influence, no one's going to listen to you.
But if you have all the influence in the world, you don't have passion.
Like you can still influence people. So I'm like, okay, now it's obvious.
Draw the walls of the house. That's influence. And then passion is the roof.
So then I'm like, okay, what does this mean?
Well, then I drew a graph. I was like, because my goal is like be a successful YouTuber.
So I drew a graph and I was like, what does it look like?
What does a YouTuber's journey look like? Just starting from scratch, zero skills.
Well, I knew it. It was pretty much nothing, nothing, nothing, no results until all of a sudden you get results.
Like it's an exponential up there. So I drew that and then on the X axis, it was time.
And then the Y axis, it was results, which is like views, subscribers, money, whatever, any results.
So then I was like, okay, so where am I right now? Well, I'm at the nothing part. I'm no results.
Which I've been here for like seven months. I'm getting used to it. So I have displayed patience.
My foundation is set. I am patient, even though I'm a little uncomfortable with the patients, I am patient.
So that is set. Now all that remains is building the next step of the house, which is the walls, building my influence.
So then I was like, okay, good. I just got to focus on influence now. And then passion will come because passion is important, but it's an amplifier.
So the way I see it is you kind of without passion.
Okay, so passion multiplies your skills. So if your skill is zero, passion can be infinite.
But infinite times zero is just zero. So it doesn't really matter.
So that means you have to actually have bring your skill up to passion and then that's kind of where the results happen.
So then I went back to my graph and I was like, okay, which one?
Like what are where do each of the skills, like the three traits play?
So it was pretty obvious. The first, like the initial phase of literally no results is just me building my skills, using patience.
So that's like patience and building your skills, building your influence and also passion kind of too.
But then like once it begins to turn, the graph begins to turn and it starts to go up.
That is kind of when people start to notice. I was like, oh, well, that's kind of where your skills actually start to become presentable.
Like if you go back to pretty much any YouTubers first videos, there's a reason why they didn't succeed.
It's because those videos weren't presentable to the public. They just weren't good enough.
And then once the YouTubers started to pop off, that is where you actually, that's where your skills actually catch up to your passion level.
So then that's where the results start to happen. And then after that, your passion just amplifies your skills and your channel skyrockets.
So that's kind of like my thought process on my goals.
And what I didn't tell you is that to actually figure out my, like the three variables or the three traits that I actually use,
I listed them all out, but in order to actually figure out all of the variables, what I did was I basically drew a picture of a representational picture of where I was before,
or at least where I first started my YouTube channel. So that was seven months ago.
When I first started my YouTube channel was seven months ago.
And that was just like a tiny little stick figure. It was like weak, short stick figure, just representational,
because I can visualize things on paper using a physique because I like lifting weights. So I can kind of like, that's just what I understand.
So physique, weak. And then on the next spot was current, like where I'm at right now.
And it's still a stick figure, but starting to grow some muscle, like getting a bicep, like getting a little bicep growing, like,
but it's not quite there yet. And then I was like, okay, what does it look like where I've achieved the final results, the epitome of the goal?
Well, that guy, frickin' massive. And I drew him out. He's not a stick figure. He's a massive dude.
So then I was like, okay, what do I have to do to get from stick figure to jacked dude?
Well, if you're lifting weights, all you got to do is train. And if you are a YouTuber, like me, all you got to do is record.
So I was like, okay, well, figure out what traits and then just record. So that's kind of how I dealt with my doubt.
First, you got to deal with like emotion. You have to bring yourself to an emotional level because public speakers and people who are very influential,
they don't try and, if they have a crowd of like doubters or people that are not on the same wavelength as them, they don't just say logic to them.
They don't just use logic. What they do first is they bring them to an emotional level on the same plane as them.
Because that's how you actually win people over. That's how you change their minds. Because they're not like, people are emotional creatures.
They don't make decisions based off logic. They actually make decisions based off emotion. So all you got to do is bring the person to the same emotional level as you,
and then you can use logic. So that's, that's like, that's my framework on destroying doubt.
Use emotion, freaking obliterate the crap out of your doubt, and then to reinforce it, all you got to do is use logic and literally sit down with your journal and write down a bunch of notes,
draw pictures and convince yourself exactly, literally just walk yourself through how to achieve your goal. That's like, just remind yourself that's all there is to it.