WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.719 I have completely rebranded this channel. A couple 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:08.740 months back, I changed the profile picture. It 00:00:08.740 --> 00:00:12.740 used to be a black background with just an older 00:00:12.740 --> 00:00:16.079 picture of me. And then I changed it to the picture 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:21.379 it's currently at, which is a picture of me last 00:00:21.379 --> 00:00:27.839 summer out in nature. Just green, natural looking 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:30.730 background. And that happened a couple months 00:00:30.730 --> 00:00:33.250 ago when I changed profile picture, but recently 00:00:33.250 --> 00:00:40.270 I changed the show title. So all the way up until 00:00:40.270 --> 00:00:46.590 maybe like a week ago around, which was this 00:00:46.590 --> 00:00:52.270 June, June, 2025, all the way up until then, 00:00:52.969 --> 00:00:56.450 the title of this podcast was called Ascend Momentum. 00:00:57.130 --> 00:01:01.299 And if you don't know the story, I'll tell you. 00:01:01.740 --> 00:01:04.819 Two summers ago. So right now this I'm recording 00:01:04.819 --> 00:01:13.920 this video on July 3 2025. Two summers ago, almost 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:17.099 today, like two summers ago, maybe tomorrow or 00:01:17.099 --> 00:01:21.280 the next day, I don't know, was when I decided 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:26.519 to start entrepreneurship and Yeah, I was doing 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.140 stuff like in high school. I was doing Well, 00:01:30.140 --> 00:01:32.099 I was in high school when I started this but 00:01:32.099 --> 00:01:34.700 earlier in high school like freshman year I was 00:01:34.700 --> 00:01:38.079 trying to learn how to code a video game and 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:40.760 then sophomore year I was trying to learn how 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:44.780 to code or no, and then junior year. I was trying 00:01:44.780 --> 00:01:48.659 to learn how to code websites and then Junior 00:01:48.659 --> 00:01:52.060 summer going into senior year was when I started 00:01:52.060 --> 00:01:54.650 actually taking it seriously Or actually, no, 00:01:55.650 --> 00:01:58.890 it was, it was just going, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:02:00.769 --> 00:02:05.109 Wait, what am I even saying? Junior year was 00:02:05.109 --> 00:02:09.310 when I started reading books. And that's when 00:02:09.310 --> 00:02:10.930 I started reading books on entrepreneurship, 00:02:11.889 --> 00:02:14.729 like Unscripted by M .J. DeMarco and The Millionaire 00:02:14.729 --> 00:02:18.930 Fastlane by M .J. DeMarco. And I was also reading 00:02:18.930 --> 00:02:24.110 other books too. But. That was when I really 00:02:24.110 --> 00:02:27.990 decided that I was gonna be an entrepreneur like 00:02:27.990 --> 00:02:29.669 that was when I was going all in I was not going 00:02:29.669 --> 00:02:32.830 to college and I already had wanted to do that 00:02:32.830 --> 00:02:37.310 like ever since I I've always hated school and 00:02:37.310 --> 00:02:40.650 Going into high school. I remember I was an eighth 00:02:40.650 --> 00:02:43.449 grader and I was sitting in the high school cafeteria 00:02:43.449 --> 00:02:47.310 in this presentation because I had to pick my 00:02:47.310 --> 00:02:53.099 classes and I was just Not I just didn't care. 00:02:53.099 --> 00:02:56.520 I didn't want to do this. I didn't like school 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:59.979 But I just kept going along and then when I realized 00:02:59.979 --> 00:03:02.939 I had to go to college after high school unless 00:03:02.939 --> 00:03:07.099 I was making money then I Was like, okay. I got 00:03:07.099 --> 00:03:08.860 to figure this out. So I started learning how 00:03:08.860 --> 00:03:11.520 to code video games code websites like I said 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:16.240 and then Summer going into senior year was when 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:19.879 I really figured out what I wanted to do, because 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:26.599 I made an LLC. I decided to go all in and actually 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:32.340 decide that this is my path now. So I made an 00:03:32.340 --> 00:03:35.039 LLC. I used Tragi BT to come up with the name. 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:37.860 It was called Ascend Momentum. And it was gonna 00:03:37.860 --> 00:03:41.819 be, or no, actually, that's not what actually 00:03:41.819 --> 00:03:43.639 happened, because what actually happened was, 00:03:43.979 --> 00:03:46.300 I was trying to figure out what kind of business 00:03:46.300 --> 00:03:50.000 I wanted to make. And I didn't know, but I did 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.960 know, I heard the other day that someone complimented 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:55.520 my face and how I didn't have that much acne. 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.319 So I was like, oh sure, let's just make an acne 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:02.319 business. And so the LLC was called Stop Acne 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:06.900 LLC. And I actually filed that LLC. Not with 00:04:06.900 --> 00:04:11.180 the state, yet. I filed it with an online filing 00:04:11.180 --> 00:04:16.529 business called Zen Business. luckily two days 00:04:16.529 --> 00:04:21.029 later I actually changed it and changed it from 00:04:21.029 --> 00:04:26.769 stop acne to Z to ascend momentum and that was 00:04:26.769 --> 00:04:31.569 because I didn't want to do acne and I was still 00:04:31.569 --> 00:04:33.449 trying to figure out what I wanted to do but 00:04:33.449 --> 00:04:35.389 around that time I was reading a book called 00:04:35.389 --> 00:04:38.410 expert secrets by Russell Brunson and he said 00:04:38.410 --> 00:04:41.370 to just document your life so I was like okay 00:04:41.370 --> 00:04:43.850 well The thing that I'm actually interested in 00:04:43.850 --> 00:04:47.069 right now is self -improvement. So let me just 00:04:47.069 --> 00:04:50.250 document myself doing self -improvement. And 00:04:50.250 --> 00:04:54.449 I had considered entrepreneurship a part of self 00:04:54.449 --> 00:04:57.050 -improvement and that was what I was interested 00:04:57.050 --> 00:04:59.449 in. I was learning about entrepreneurship, so 00:04:59.449 --> 00:05:01.490 I started a podcast of me just talking about 00:05:01.490 --> 00:05:03.769 self -improvement and my current self -improvement 00:05:03.769 --> 00:05:09.040 venture, which was entrepreneurship. Obviously 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:12.759 no one listened. I actually think that Someone 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:14.579 some people did listen. I actually think that 00:05:14.579 --> 00:05:18.040 more people listened for the first couple months 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:22.639 or first year Than they are now, which is kind 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:24.540 of crazy. Like no one's listening to this podcast 00:05:24.540 --> 00:05:28.500 right now maybe like I think I'm getting a hundred 00:05:28.500 --> 00:05:33.139 downloads a month and that's a very good month, 00:05:33.139 --> 00:05:36.939 I think but when I first started I was getting 00:05:36.939 --> 00:05:46.839 like eight nine ten downloads a day and Basically 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:52.639 I was just doing daily uploads on that and Then 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:58.100 over time and but my real focus was to do the 00:05:58.100 --> 00:06:02.300 To document my journey practice my content creation 00:06:02.300 --> 00:06:04.860 while trying to figure out what I actually wanted 00:06:04.860 --> 00:06:07.000 to do because I thought that I was trying to 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:09.399 find the business that I wanted to make. But 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:11.660 over time, I actually started taking the constant 00:06:11.660 --> 00:06:13.980 creation more and more seriously and self -improvement 00:06:13.980 --> 00:06:18.699 more and more seriously until I am where I'm 00:06:18.699 --> 00:06:21.500 at now, which is I've gone, I'm focused on the 00:06:21.500 --> 00:06:24.060 YouTube channel. And originally, I had just started 00:06:24.060 --> 00:06:29.120 the YouTube channel called Ascend Momentum to 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.939 have another place to distribute this podcast 00:06:31.939 --> 00:06:37.949 to. But... over time I actually changed my, I 00:06:37.949 --> 00:06:39.730 started taking it more seriously and started 00:06:39.730 --> 00:06:42.149 recording actual videos. I'm not doing that anymore, 00:06:42.149 --> 00:06:47.689 but I started having this podcast as video recordings 00:06:47.689 --> 00:06:50.870 and I bought like a webcam and then eventually 00:06:50.870 --> 00:06:54.490 I kept taking it more seriously until I finally 00:06:54.490 --> 00:06:58.550 decided to unlist my entire podcast off of my 00:06:58.550 --> 00:07:02.410 YouTube channel and make self -improvement YouTube 00:07:02.410 --> 00:07:06.019 videos. And after a while of doing that, I actually 00:07:06.019 --> 00:07:10.800 ended up re -uploading all of those, like re 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:14.199 -public, publicizing all of those podcasts, old 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:16.399 podcast episodes, so those are still on my channel, 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:19.339 and they're still public, but just so I wanted 00:07:19.339 --> 00:07:22.660 people to see my journey, even though there's 00:07:22.660 --> 00:07:26.860 a lot that you don't see. But, long story short, 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:31.660 now I'm at the point where this podcast is completely 00:07:31.660 --> 00:07:34.990 separate from my YouTube channel. This podcast 00:07:34.990 --> 00:07:38.870 is still just me documenting my journey because 00:07:38.870 --> 00:07:41.850 it's actually funny because I started this podcast 00:07:41.850 --> 00:07:44.730 as a way to document my journey to try and figure 00:07:44.730 --> 00:07:47.230 out what I actually wanted to do. And what I 00:07:47.230 --> 00:07:49.449 actually wanted to do was YouTube self improvement 00:07:49.449 --> 00:07:54.050 videos. So I actually did end up figuring it 00:07:54.050 --> 00:07:57.029 out. But now I have this podcast which is a whole 00:07:57.029 --> 00:08:01.290 separate entity to my YouTube channel. am still 00:08:01.290 --> 00:08:04.129 maintaining it because it's only like it's only 00:08:04.129 --> 00:08:06.709 like a one or two hour investment each month 00:08:06.709 --> 00:08:09.790 and I think it's well worth the investment because 00:08:09.790 --> 00:08:14.810 I really like the concept of Documenting my journey 00:08:14.810 --> 00:08:17.389 even if it's just once a month and there's a 00:08:17.389 --> 00:08:20.230 lot of stuff that I have learned and a lot of 00:08:20.230 --> 00:08:23.089 stuff that happens in the month that I don't 00:08:23.089 --> 00:08:26.209 actually talk about simply because one I either 00:08:26.209 --> 00:08:30.079 don't think to talk about it or Yeah, probably 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.299 just because I don't think to talk about it and 00:08:32.299 --> 00:08:36.980 obviously you can't instill 30 days worth of 00:08:36.980 --> 00:08:40.700 experience in a one hour long podcast episode 00:08:40.700 --> 00:08:44.220 But I still really like the concept of documenting 00:08:44.220 --> 00:08:48.500 my journey especially when my channel starts 00:08:48.500 --> 00:08:51.840 to starts to boom Like that's when this podcast 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:54.120 will really start to feel special. Right now 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.500 this podcast is just kind of whatever, just kind 00:08:56.500 --> 00:09:01.679 of a dump of all of these podcast episodes. But 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:07.740 proportionately, like in exact ratio to how successful 00:09:07.740 --> 00:09:11.940 my YouTube channel is, is how valuable this podcast 00:09:11.940 --> 00:09:16.889 will seem. And I really like that. So that's 00:09:16.889 --> 00:09:20.090 what I'm doing and I changed this podcast title 00:09:20.090 --> 00:09:25.049 to the creator journey. I Still I I still am 00:09:25.049 --> 00:09:27.690 NOT like oh, that's the best name ever like this 00:09:27.690 --> 00:09:30.889 is the best branding ever I'm still not like 00:09:30.889 --> 00:09:33.350 totally 100 % on board But it's definitely better 00:09:33.350 --> 00:09:36.149 than a send momentum and it did come out of my 00:09:36.149 --> 00:09:39.169 own brain like a send momentum was a mix between 00:09:39.169 --> 00:09:43.190 brainstorming and also using chat GBT but The 00:09:43.190 --> 00:09:45.809 creator journey was actually I spent months like 00:09:45.809 --> 00:09:49.289 I've actually been thinking about changing my 00:09:49.289 --> 00:09:51.769 podcast name and I've I've done intermittent 00:09:51.769 --> 00:09:55.370 brainstorming sessions over the past couple months 00:09:55.370 --> 00:09:58.250 of trying to figure out what to change it to 00:09:58.250 --> 00:10:02.250 and the name that I'd like to best that kept 00:10:02.250 --> 00:10:04.429 repeating kept showing up during these brainstorming 00:10:04.429 --> 00:10:07.669 sessions is the creator journey and that's simply 00:10:07.669 --> 00:10:11.960 because that's a literal description of what 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:16.340 this podcast is and a huge inspiration. I am 00:10:16.340 --> 00:10:20.519 not currently listening to this podcast, but 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:22.659 I used to listen to this podcast all the time. 00:10:22.740 --> 00:10:26.600 It's called the diary of a CEO and that podcast 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:30.480 is a huge inspiration to this one because the 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:35.309 title is literally It describes what the podcast 00:10:35.309 --> 00:10:39.409 is in literal terms The guy is a CEO the host 00:10:39.409 --> 00:10:43.110 and he also has other CEOs or other highly successful 00:10:43.110 --> 00:10:46.289 individuals on the show and it's basically just 00:10:46.289 --> 00:10:49.129 their diary they're just spewing out all these 00:10:49.129 --> 00:10:53.470 different ideas and that's exactly how I think 00:10:53.470 --> 00:10:58.149 of my Video or my podcast which I actually was 00:10:58.149 --> 00:11:02.639 thinking of doing the diary of a creator But 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:04.879 that just seemed way too close like that was 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:08.480 another name that was that repeatedly came up 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:11.580 when I was doing my brainstorming diary the diary 00:11:11.580 --> 00:11:19.159 of a creator or the the creator journey and The 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:22.639 diary of a creator is Abbreviated in the same 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.320 exact way as the diary of a CEO. So I didn't 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:30.509 think that it would be a good Play or a good 00:11:30.509 --> 00:11:34.610 move to use that name and just because I I wanted 00:11:34.610 --> 00:11:38.750 it to be more original and That I actually liked 00:11:38.750 --> 00:11:41.289 the diet or I actually liked the creator journey 00:11:41.289 --> 00:11:45.049 better So that's what the title of this podcast 00:11:45.049 --> 00:11:49.009 is it's the creator journey And I was also thinking 00:11:49.009 --> 00:11:52.529 of just making it James Radzynski like that's 00:11:52.529 --> 00:11:55.730 the title, but my YouTube channel is that and 00:11:55.730 --> 00:11:57.669 I don't think that that would be a good idea 00:11:57.669 --> 00:12:02.110 to have the podcast title James Radzynski because 00:12:02.110 --> 00:12:04.570 podcast is different to a YouTube channel because 00:12:04.570 --> 00:12:07.750 a YouTube channel is more of like a personal 00:12:07.750 --> 00:12:13.809 brand but a podcast is more of like I don't know, 00:12:14.149 --> 00:12:16.970 while I'm just saying that I thought of the Joe 00:12:16.970 --> 00:12:20.750 Rogan what is it called the Joe Rogan experience 00:12:20.750 --> 00:12:23.990 or something like that but even that is still 00:12:23.990 --> 00:12:27.330 like brand it's not Literally Joe Rogan. It's 00:12:27.330 --> 00:12:32.409 the Joe Rogan experience so that's why I chose 00:12:32.409 --> 00:12:38.129 the creator journey and Another the the catalyst 00:12:38.129 --> 00:12:41.350 that caused me to finally pull the trigger and 00:12:41.350 --> 00:12:45.309 change the title was because the other day I 00:12:45.309 --> 00:12:48.409 I found myself with like I think five dollars 00:12:48.409 --> 00:12:53.909 in my bank account and I had probably $800 worth 00:12:53.909 --> 00:12:57.909 of yearly subscriptions coming up in the next 00:12:57.909 --> 00:13:02.730 10 days and I had no means of making money my 00:13:02.730 --> 00:13:05.330 YouTube channel is still at I think now it's 00:13:05.330 --> 00:13:08.490 at like 399 subscribers I'm getting like 20 views 00:13:08.490 --> 00:13:13.710 a video and Most of those views are me I'm going 00:13:13.710 --> 00:13:16.649 to be totally honest. I've been rewatching my 00:13:16.649 --> 00:13:19.690 videos. Not to like pump up the views, but I've 00:13:19.690 --> 00:13:21.730 just been rewatching my videos because I genuinely 00:13:21.730 --> 00:13:26.210 just love them. But most of those views are from 00:13:26.210 --> 00:13:29.590 me. So I'm probably only getting like five views 00:13:29.590 --> 00:13:34.330 per video. I'm not lying to you right now. And 00:13:34.330 --> 00:13:38.169 the catalyst that caused it was that I needed 00:13:38.169 --> 00:13:42.730 yearly subscriptions. And I needed $800 within 00:13:42.730 --> 00:13:46.549 10 days. So I had to go I pretty much dropped 00:13:46.549 --> 00:13:49.789 my YouTube channel like not not dropped it but 00:13:49.789 --> 00:13:53.730 like I focused all of my efforts on making $800 00:13:53.730 --> 00:13:58.509 and I didn't want to just do manual labor because 00:13:58.509 --> 00:14:01.730 that's like I don't want to do that. I would 00:14:01.730 --> 00:14:03.769 rather do something that I can actually get better 00:14:03.769 --> 00:14:09.029 at so I decided to invest all of my efforts into 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.220 editing, becoming a freelance editor. And I have 00:14:13.220 --> 00:14:17.360 attempted to do that in the past. I did serious 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:20.700 research on how to do it and applied for many 00:14:20.700 --> 00:14:24.919 different jobs, unsuccessfully. But I actually 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:29.320 figured out, during that time, I learned what 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:31.399 you need to have. And it's this thing called 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:35.220 a show reel. And it's like a 30 to 60 second 00:14:35.220 --> 00:14:41.500 clip showcasing all of your skills. and who you've 00:14:41.500 --> 00:14:44.500 worked for in the past. But basically you're 00:14:44.500 --> 00:14:49.320 just trying to sell yourself to the client. And 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:52.580 I made myself a showreel. It took maybe like 00:14:52.580 --> 00:14:57.000 four days. But I made a 60 second showreel and 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.399 I posted it to a brand new YouTube channel called 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:04.320 James Edits. And it... actually made like a title 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:07.879 and thumbnail I made it very like it's it's literally 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:10.519 the process that I followed was identical to 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:12.980 the way I make my actual YouTube videos and the 00:15:12.980 --> 00:15:17.639 style is identical too and the title was called 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:21.399 60 or getting your film edited in 60 seconds 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:25.200 and the thumbnail was just a picture of of me 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:28.980 smiling holding up my fingers kind of like a 00:15:28.980 --> 00:15:31.639 scissors like holding up my fingers like scissors, 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:37.159 like I'm cutting. And then over that is just 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:41.860 a close up of DaVinci Resolve editing timeline 00:15:41.860 --> 00:15:44.740 and just like the different assets being cut. 00:15:46.419 --> 00:15:53.059 And it was a old video timeline that I had. So 00:15:53.059 --> 00:15:57.120 basically I made that and then I posted that 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:02.919 link onto ours on to like reddit on to Facebook 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:07.220 on to Discord servers all over and the thing 00:16:07.220 --> 00:16:10.419 ended up getting like 50 views. I think only 00:16:10.419 --> 00:16:15.679 one view came from actual YouTube's browse and 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:20.240 that view got like a 3 % average watch time so 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:25.000 the Pretty much but the when I did post the link 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:28.549 the average watch time was like 40 seconds which 00:16:28.549 --> 00:16:33.690 is four 40 seconds out of the 60 second video, 00:16:33.769 --> 00:16:37.190 which is I think pretty good. I mean, obviously 00:16:37.190 --> 00:16:41.470 it's not perfect because you want like 99 % or 00:16:41.470 --> 00:16:45.330 100%, but I think it was pretty good. Like considering 00:16:45.330 --> 00:16:47.889 the fact that I still suck at this at YouTube 00:16:47.889 --> 00:16:51.169 or maybe not suck, but considering the fact that 00:16:51.169 --> 00:16:55.169 I'm, I only have two years of experience, but 00:16:56.389 --> 00:17:01.350 Spoiler alert, I did not get any jobs. I didn't 00:17:01.350 --> 00:17:06.150 get any money. So I ended up having to cancel 00:17:06.150 --> 00:17:08.329 those yearly subscriptions. And you know what 00:17:08.329 --> 00:17:12.609 those yearly subscriptions were? My business, 00:17:12.890 --> 00:17:17.710 my LLC stuff. So that was my Zen business subscriptions. 00:17:18.289 --> 00:17:21.049 And in fact, it wasn't actually $800. It was 00:17:21.049 --> 00:17:25.140 only like $400. Still, I actually believed it 00:17:25.140 --> 00:17:29.160 was $800. So I acted like it was $800. And then 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:32.519 I realized it was only $400. But I ended up canceling 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:35.920 those subscriptions. And in order to do that, 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:39.519 I had to dissolve my LLC. And that only cost 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:43.160 like $5. But basically, I dissolved my LLC, which 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:45.380 was fine because I didn't really use it anyways. 00:17:46.500 --> 00:17:50.799 And the LLC was called Ascend Momentum LLC. And 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:53.720 I dissolved that. And that was the catalyst that 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:57.480 caused me to change this show's name. Because 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:00.240 I never really liked to send momentum. It was 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.680 just like a just get started thing. Like, start 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:06.640 now and figure it out along the way. And I always 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:08.819 had the intention to change it, but I didn't 00:18:08.819 --> 00:18:10.680 know what to change it to. And now I know what 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:13.599 to change it to, the creative journey. And now 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:20.240 I'm fine with that. So over the past couple weeks 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:25.980 I've been transferring all of my different accounts 00:18:25.980 --> 00:18:32.000 from my old Ascend Momentum email to my new personal 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:36.640 email, which is jamesradzinski at gmail .com. 00:18:37.420 --> 00:18:43.640 And that's because I'm canceling that email account. 00:18:44.859 --> 00:18:49.569 So now, before I was spending like, $400 a year 00:18:49.569 --> 00:18:53.990 on my business and now I'm spending zero or I 00:18:53.990 --> 00:18:56.569 still have like my monthly subscriptions for 00:18:56.569 --> 00:18:58.849 Photoshop and all that stuff, but that's really 00:18:58.849 --> 00:19:00.869 just for my YouTube channel before I was spending 00:19:00.869 --> 00:19:03.630 like $400 a year on literally nothing like just 00:19:03.630 --> 00:19:05.509 maintaining and I'll see that I was not using 00:19:05.509 --> 00:19:13.349 so I've cut expenses which is good and That is 00:19:13.349 --> 00:19:18.660 that's why I That's basically why I haven't posted 00:19:18.660 --> 00:19:21.619 in a couple weeks. Right now on my YouTube channel, 00:19:21.619 --> 00:19:25.039 I haven't posted a video in like two weeks. First 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:28.079 of all, it was because I was on vacation and 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:30.259 then I got back and I started working on this 00:19:30.259 --> 00:19:33.880 really long video. I wanted to make a 45 minute 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:38.200 movie about my entire self -improvement philosophy 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:42.670 up to that point. And I had literally... Nearly 00:19:42.670 --> 00:19:46.390 like I mapped out the entire video. I had my 00:19:46.390 --> 00:19:51.650 all of the points all the different ideas Like 00:19:51.650 --> 00:19:54.109 the different concepts. I had that mapped out 00:19:54.109 --> 00:19:59.349 my entire philosophy mapped out and then I started 00:19:59.349 --> 00:20:02.410 scripting it and then I just I realized that 00:20:02.410 --> 00:20:07.289 I wasn't really inspired and So that's when I 00:20:07.289 --> 00:20:11.240 started making that editing showreel and then 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:15.180 after I was done with that I Started working 00:20:15.180 --> 00:20:17.019 on the video that I'm working on right now, which 00:20:17.019 --> 00:20:22.920 is a 15 minute video on basically my not my entire 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:31.799 philosophy, but I I It's called this What is 00:20:31.799 --> 00:20:35.140 it called this interactive video will change 00:20:35.140 --> 00:20:40.619 your life and that that's me Introducing a brand 00:20:40.619 --> 00:20:43.539 new concept into the self -improvement niche 00:20:43.539 --> 00:20:49.259 I found this YouTube channel called legardo films 00:20:49.259 --> 00:20:54.200 and They make interactive videos like literal 00:20:54.200 --> 00:21:00.140 video games. It's actually crazy where you get 00:21:00.140 --> 00:21:03.440 to click the number keys on your keyboard or 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:06.640 click the arrow keys and it takes you to different 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:09.359 sections in the video and they organize it so 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:13.059 it's like okay we're chasing after this bad guy 00:21:13.059 --> 00:21:16.720 click use the number keys on your keyboard to 00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:18.759 choose where to go and then you can choose between 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:22.779 the park use the car or go into the house and 00:21:22.779 --> 00:21:25.900 like the park you have to click the three you 00:21:25.900 --> 00:21:27.779 have to click on number three on your keyboard 00:21:27.779 --> 00:21:31.170 the car you have to click on number four, or 00:21:31.170 --> 00:21:33.130 the house you have to click on number five. And 00:21:33.130 --> 00:21:37.890 then there are different maps, like different 00:21:37.890 --> 00:21:41.329 paths that you get to go down, like different 00:21:41.329 --> 00:21:43.970 paths that you get to go down based on your choice. 00:21:44.250 --> 00:21:46.809 So it's like choose your own adventure, but on 00:21:46.809 --> 00:21:49.069 a YouTube video. And I thought that that concept 00:21:49.069 --> 00:21:53.490 was so cool. And so I basically stole that idea. 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:57.640 and changed it to how it would work on a self 00:21:57.640 --> 00:22:02.240 -improvement video. This is my first time making 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:06.140 that type of video, so I mess up a lot. I didn't 00:22:06.140 --> 00:22:09.880 really know how to make it so great. I wanted 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:17.720 it to be subjective and not objective, meaning 00:22:17.720 --> 00:22:24.109 instead of having a Well, first of all, instead 00:22:24.109 --> 00:22:28.970 of having different choices to go to that would 00:22:28.970 --> 00:22:33.650 progress the story, instead of having story timeline 00:22:33.650 --> 00:22:39.329 choices, I changed that concept to be a sales 00:22:39.329 --> 00:22:45.710 funnel. Like a, what is it called? A survey funnel. 00:22:46.289 --> 00:22:48.940 So I learned of this concept. by a guy named 00:22:48.940 --> 00:22:51.579 Russell Brunson, and then later, Ryan Leveque. 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:58.019 He wrote a book called Ask. And in that book, 00:22:58.019 --> 00:23:00.700 he talked about survey funnels. And it's basically 00:23:00.700 --> 00:23:04.480 where you go onto the website, and you're prompted 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:07.579 with different questions. So like, this hair 00:23:07.579 --> 00:23:10.579 company will say, OK, what type of hair do you 00:23:10.579 --> 00:23:13.539 have? Curly, straight, wavy. And then you answer, 00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:15.759 and then it will go to the next question. What 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:19.170 color is your hair? Next question. And then pretty 00:23:19.170 --> 00:23:23.970 much all of the, in the conventional, like the 00:23:23.970 --> 00:23:29.529 one, in like the one, the most simplest survey 00:23:29.529 --> 00:23:32.089 funnel, pretty much all of the questions don't 00:23:32.089 --> 00:23:34.529 really matter except for the last one. The last 00:23:34.529 --> 00:23:37.190 question will place you into different buckets. 00:23:37.789 --> 00:23:40.809 So however you answer the last question will 00:23:40.809 --> 00:23:45.500 change Where like what video you're sent to so 00:23:45.500 --> 00:23:47.200 once you answer all the questions you're sent 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:49.720 to a different video and it's like a a sales 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:57.579 letter video and That video is specifically tailored 00:23:57.579 --> 00:24:00.700 based off of how you answer that last question. 00:24:00.900 --> 00:24:03.759 So they would actually record like three or four 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:06.839 different original videos based off of the three 00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:08.940 or four different answers that you would have 00:24:08.940 --> 00:24:11.819 for the last question. And so I basically used 00:24:11.819 --> 00:24:15.079 that concept and combined it with the interactive 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:18.640 video concept where in this video that I'm making, 00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:24.720 the first, the intro is literally me saying, 00:24:25.069 --> 00:24:27.049 Oh, you want to change your life? Okay, let me 00:24:27.049 --> 00:24:29.509 ask you a few questions. And then you answer 00:24:29.509 --> 00:24:33.470 the questions by using your keyboard, okay? And 00:24:33.470 --> 00:24:37.309 the questions that I used, I wanted them to be 00:24:37.309 --> 00:24:40.490 subjective in the sense to where they could change 00:24:40.490 --> 00:24:44.650 day to day. For example, what time of day is 00:24:44.650 --> 00:24:47.549 it? Are you watching this video during the nighttime 00:24:47.549 --> 00:24:51.190 or the daytime? And the reason why I wanted to 00:24:51.190 --> 00:24:54.529 do that was because I wanted it to feel more 00:24:57.519 --> 00:25:01.240 playful in a sense. But I'm not sure if that 00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:05.000 was the best idea or the best decision. I don't 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:06.660 know. This is my first time making this type 00:25:06.660 --> 00:25:09.640 of video. But what I could have done and said 00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:16.700 was, are you fat, skinny, or average? And then 00:25:16.700 --> 00:25:19.099 that would have sent to different videos. For 00:25:19.099 --> 00:25:20.779 example, if someone was fat, then I would say, 00:25:21.019 --> 00:25:24.390 okay, like... lose weight or whatever that's 00:25:24.390 --> 00:25:27.069 just an example and then if they were skinny 00:25:27.069 --> 00:25:29.470 I would send them to the video of oh let's get 00:25:29.470 --> 00:25:35.470 jacked or you know and that was that that's basically 00:25:35.470 --> 00:25:38.710 the way that I'm structuring this video it's 00:25:38.710 --> 00:25:40.970 a brand new original concept in the self improvement 00:25:40.970 --> 00:25:45.009 niche and I think that I don't actually know 00:25:45.009 --> 00:25:49.130 if it'll do good I I I don't have any knowledge 00:25:49.130 --> 00:25:54.319 on YouTube because All of the videos like my 00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:58.559 best thumbnail my best packages like video packages 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:02.980 that I've came up with ever Like with the coolest 00:26:02.980 --> 00:26:05.579 looking thumbnails the coolest tight like the 00:26:05.579 --> 00:26:09.240 best titles were my most recent seven videos 00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:13.259 those are like My for example my most recent 00:26:13.259 --> 00:26:15.880 one is 60 seconds till you're reading a book 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:18.400 and then the first one of those seven that group 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:21.609 of seven is This is why you're not motivated 00:26:21.609 --> 00:26:25.529 all of those seven videos were my best Packages 00:26:25.529 --> 00:26:29.529 that I've ever made on YouTube But they got like 00:26:29.529 --> 00:26:32.410 20 views each and like I said most of those views 00:26:32.410 --> 00:26:35.549 are me So I don't know anything about YouTube 00:26:35.549 --> 00:26:39.630 at this point. I'm just doing whatever and Basically, 00:26:39.650 --> 00:26:43.809 yeah right now what I'm doing is I'm very inspiration 00:26:43.809 --> 00:26:50.039 based so like I said I was working on a 45 -minute 00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:53.460 self -improvement movie with my entire self -improvement 00:26:53.460 --> 00:26:58.180 philosophy in it and with an actual storyline 00:26:58.180 --> 00:27:02.680 and everything. And it was gonna be like almost 00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:07.000 like a memoir or an autobiography of myself, 00:27:07.819 --> 00:27:12.180 but a fictional. So like it was gonna be historic 00:27:12.180 --> 00:27:17.640 fiction of me. How I learned all of these my 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:20.039 entire self -improvement philosophy and I was 00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:22.180 gonna go through each of the different concepts 00:27:22.180 --> 00:27:27.980 and I really like that idea but Making longer 00:27:27.980 --> 00:27:31.700 long really long form videos like that like making 00:27:31.700 --> 00:27:35.420 a five minute video Takes a long time. That's 00:27:35.420 --> 00:27:39.000 why I've been making really short videos like 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:42.099 one minute long videos because I Really want 00:27:42.099 --> 00:27:46.230 to be able to just pump out the reps but making 00:27:46.230 --> 00:27:48.549 like 10 minute videos, like the most recent 10 00:27:48.549 --> 00:27:52.730 minute video that I made in this style was why 00:27:52.730 --> 00:27:54.490 you keep feeling to change your life, that took 00:27:54.490 --> 00:27:57.490 like two and a half weeks to make. And I was 00:27:57.490 --> 00:28:01.430 working, I was grinding. And so that's why I 00:28:01.430 --> 00:28:03.789 don't really wanna make these long, long, long, 00:28:03.789 --> 00:28:05.990 long type of videos, but that's what I'm making 00:28:05.990 --> 00:28:09.069 right now. I'm making a 15 minute video. Luckily, 00:28:09.349 --> 00:28:12.410 most of that video is just idle, it's me. If 00:28:12.410 --> 00:28:14.670 you go and watch that video, when I'm done making 00:28:14.670 --> 00:28:17.589 it, you'll understand what I mean by idle. It's 00:28:17.589 --> 00:28:21.170 like, by the end of each section, I say, OK, 00:28:21.250 --> 00:28:23.390 click on this button to continue your journey. 00:28:23.849 --> 00:28:27.349 And then it's literally just me. In video games, 00:28:27.589 --> 00:28:30.950 there are idle animations. So when you're gone, 00:28:31.150 --> 00:28:33.289 like when you're AFK, which means you're away 00:28:33.289 --> 00:28:35.670 from the keyboard, when you're not using any 00:28:35.670 --> 00:28:39.740 of the controls, you're the player in the video 00:28:39.740 --> 00:28:42.920 game is standing still. But usually in a lot 00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:46.640 of video games, there are animations that the 00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:51.400 player, the character, does. So it might start 00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:54.480 moving around, or start jumping around, or pretend 00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:58.440 like it's punching a punching bag right in front 00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:02.740 of it while it's just passing the time. And so 00:29:02.740 --> 00:29:04.450 that's what I've been doing. That's what I'm 00:29:04.450 --> 00:29:07.049 doing in this video too, of me literally just 00:29:07.049 --> 00:29:10.269 standing there waiting for the person to select 00:29:10.269 --> 00:29:14.910 the correct key on the keyboard. So a lot of 00:29:14.910 --> 00:29:17.809 the 15 minutes is gonna be just idle time, so 00:29:17.809 --> 00:29:22.970 it won't take a lot of time to produce for. But 00:29:22.970 --> 00:29:25.490 it's still gonna take a long time to make this 00:29:25.490 --> 00:29:27.970 video. I've been working on it for I don't know 00:29:27.970 --> 00:29:31.490 how long, but I've really only been working like 00:29:31.490 --> 00:29:34.400 one or two hours a day. And that's what I'm getting 00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:39.420 into. When I was making those seven videos, my 00:29:39.420 --> 00:29:43.440 seven most recent videos, which were the first 00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:45.900 one was this is why you're not motivated, and 00:29:45.900 --> 00:29:49.680 then the last one was 60 seconds until you are 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:52.440 reading a book. When I was making those videos, 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:57.539 for the first four weeks, I was super inspired. 00:29:58.460 --> 00:30:03.259 As in, super driven. And it was closer to effortless 00:30:03.259 --> 00:30:08.359 than not. But around like week four or five, 00:30:08.779 --> 00:30:10.579 my energy plummeted. And I talked about this 00:30:10.579 --> 00:30:16.299 in last month's episode. But basically, I realized 00:30:16.299 --> 00:30:20.339 that that is very indicative of, am I on the 00:30:20.339 --> 00:30:23.539 right path? And during that time period of those 00:30:23.539 --> 00:30:25.900 four weeks when I was super inspired, I wasn't 00:30:25.900 --> 00:30:28.819 really reading that much books, because I wasn't 00:30:28.819 --> 00:30:30.880 really inspired to read that much books. I just 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:34.319 wanted to work. But now I'm the complete opposite, 00:30:34.660 --> 00:30:38.099 where I am just working maybe like one or two 00:30:38.099 --> 00:30:41.940 hours a day, but I'm reading a lot. And I feel 00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:47.200 like there's just so much to learn, so much information 00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:50.880 that can expand my worldview that I want to integrate 00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:56.210 into my knowledge base or my worldview. Excuse 00:30:56.210 --> 00:30:59.670 me. And so I've been really instead of fighting 00:30:59.670 --> 00:31:02.250 that urge which I've done in the past where I 00:31:02.250 --> 00:31:04.769 just really like in the past I'm like, I really 00:31:04.769 --> 00:31:06.710 just want to grind. I just want to make sure 00:31:06.710 --> 00:31:10.509 that I'm just working all day, but But I would 00:31:10.509 --> 00:31:13.609 fight it. And I wasn't inspired. So I would work 00:31:13.609 --> 00:31:15.710 all day. But a lot of that time was just wasted. 00:31:15.789 --> 00:31:18.289 And I wasn't really motivated. So I wasn't producing 00:31:18.289 --> 00:31:21.630 that much. But when you're inspired, you produce 00:31:21.630 --> 00:31:24.470 a lot. And so that's why I've been really listening 00:31:24.470 --> 00:31:29.250 to my inspiration. paying attention to where 00:31:29.250 --> 00:31:31.569 I should direct my energies. If I don't want 00:31:31.569 --> 00:31:34.670 to read and I just want to grind and work, then 00:31:34.670 --> 00:31:37.390 I'm going to go all into that because that will 00:31:37.390 --> 00:31:40.589 help me produce the most and grow the most. But 00:31:40.589 --> 00:31:43.650 now, for example, I don't really want to work 00:31:43.650 --> 00:31:46.109 that much. Yeah, I'm working like one or two 00:31:46.109 --> 00:31:49.759 hours a day. But I really just want to read a 00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:52.859 lot I feel like there's so much stuff that I 00:31:52.859 --> 00:31:56.559 need to be aware of that will dramatically affect 00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.059 my future and dramatically affect the way I go 00:32:00.059 --> 00:32:05.579 about my current life and That's what I've been 00:32:05.579 --> 00:32:08.460 leaning into. I've just been reading many hours 00:32:08.460 --> 00:32:14.740 every day so and it's And like who knows maybe 00:32:14.740 --> 00:32:17.400 in like two weeks I'll be like I'm done with 00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:20.059 reading and I just want to work like go all in 00:32:20.059 --> 00:32:23.559 and that's I feel like it's more There's a book 00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:26.039 that I'm reading right now. It's called the language 00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:29.920 older than words and he mentioned this concept 00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:35.460 of he just said this thing in passing of like 00:32:35.460 --> 00:32:40.119 It was just this one sentence. He said I don't 00:32:40.119 --> 00:32:42.400 even remember it, but it was something about 00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:46.460 the difference between a like producing like 00:32:46.460 --> 00:32:53.099 linear production mindset and Cyclical or something 00:32:53.099 --> 00:32:56.339 like that. I don't even know But I don't even 00:32:56.339 --> 00:32:58.859 know if this was what he meant. I actually don't 00:32:58.859 --> 00:33:02.640 think this is what he meant, but it it made me 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:07.519 think of this concept or Maybe invent this concept. 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:11.380 I don't know It brought this concept to my attention 00:33:11.380 --> 00:33:14.839 of the difference between linear production and 00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:19.279 cyclical evolve. Like cyclical, like seasonal, 00:33:20.700 --> 00:33:22.819 what's the word? This is the first time that 00:33:22.819 --> 00:33:25.259 I've really put to words what I'm trying to say 00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:29.099 right now, but linear production would be what 00:33:29.099 --> 00:33:32.200 I said before, where I have to be grinding eight 00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:36.759 hours every day for seven days a week for. or 00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:41.660 maybe like six days a week for every single day 00:33:41.660 --> 00:33:46.700 until I make enough money, for example, or just 00:33:46.700 --> 00:33:48.460 indefinitely for the rest of my life because 00:33:48.460 --> 00:33:50.980 that will help me grow the most and that will 00:33:50.980 --> 00:33:54.579 ensure that in the future I'll have the most 00:33:54.579 --> 00:33:57.200 successful business. Like that's linear production. 00:33:57.339 --> 00:34:00.160 Every single day I have to put in eight hours 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:03.859 every day, the same amount of work. maybe even 00:34:03.859 --> 00:34:09.059 increase the intensity over time. But then there's 00:34:09.059 --> 00:34:12.440 another concept of seasonal like cyclical like 00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:16.139 the cyclical nature of things and that would 00:34:16.139 --> 00:34:21.019 be like how I just described how maybe one day 00:34:21.019 --> 00:34:24.800 I'll be like for four weeks straight I will want 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:28.400 to do nothing other than just work. Like my entire 00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:32.159 day is just me working, eating, and then working. 00:34:32.460 --> 00:34:36.000 and then going to bed. Not reading, not doing 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:38.059 anything. Maybe reading for like an hour every 00:34:38.059 --> 00:34:41.159 day or 30 minutes or like 10 minutes if I'm lucky. 00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:44.880 But for the most part, my focus is just working. 00:34:45.619 --> 00:34:48.739 But then after like four weeks, I kind of just 00:34:48.739 --> 00:34:54.239 stop and my inspiration shifts. And that's the 00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:57.380 seasonal nature. So in the macro grand scale 00:34:57.380 --> 00:35:02.489 of things, the earth goes through seasons. summer 00:35:02.489 --> 00:35:05.550 right now as of recording this video and then 00:35:05.550 --> 00:35:08.690 we're gonna go into fall and then winter and 00:35:08.690 --> 00:35:11.090 then spring and then summer and then it just 00:35:11.090 --> 00:35:16.449 repeats that is also kind of like how My work 00:35:16.449 --> 00:35:20.429 is where I go through seasons season of just 00:35:20.429 --> 00:35:26.909 absolute grind For YouTube but then it's kind 00:35:26.909 --> 00:35:30.150 of like chill that was me on vacation and now 00:35:30.150 --> 00:35:34.449 I'm kind of in the Just I need to expand my worldview 00:35:34.449 --> 00:35:38.010 so much Like I just need to expose myself to 00:35:38.010 --> 00:35:40.849 so much information on these books I just need 00:35:40.849 --> 00:35:43.389 to read as many as many of the right types of 00:35:43.389 --> 00:35:46.409 books as possible right now And that's the season 00:35:46.409 --> 00:35:49.869 that I'm in right now. So I I've been really 00:35:49.869 --> 00:35:54.570 paying attention to that lately being aware of 00:35:54.570 --> 00:36:02.510 where my inspiration is Once it wants to be directed 00:36:02.510 --> 00:36:09.429 towards, if that makes sense. But that's basically 00:36:09.429 --> 00:36:12.429 all I wanted to say. Right now, I'm just focusing 00:36:12.429 --> 00:36:15.050 on reading. And this video that I'm working on, 00:36:15.670 --> 00:36:19.949 I have finished every single step, because I 00:36:19.949 --> 00:36:25.110 have this whole... Have this whole system that 00:36:25.110 --> 00:36:28.050 I go through this whole video checklist Google 00:36:28.050 --> 00:36:30.849 Docs that I actually make a copy of every single 00:36:30.849 --> 00:36:32.849 time I make a new video and the first step is 00:36:32.849 --> 00:36:35.449 like coming up with a Packageable idea and then 00:36:35.449 --> 00:36:37.250 coming up with the title coming up with three 00:36:37.250 --> 00:36:40.230 or actually coming up with like brainstorming 00:36:40.230 --> 00:36:43.550 a lot of titles brainstorming a lot of Package 00:36:43.550 --> 00:36:46.829 like a lot of thumbnails and then obviously picking 00:36:46.829 --> 00:36:50.469 one title and then picking like three or four 00:36:50.469 --> 00:36:54.090 thumbnails and then And then I come up with like 00:36:54.090 --> 00:36:57.809 the intro, the structure, outline, all that stuff. 00:36:58.170 --> 00:37:01.309 And then I do the script and then the shot list, 00:37:02.070 --> 00:37:04.949 which the shot list is just all of the visuals 00:37:04.949 --> 00:37:09.670 on the screen. And then after that, I do, I start 00:37:09.670 --> 00:37:12.449 recording and I also take the thumbnail picture. 00:37:12.610 --> 00:37:16.130 I make the thumbnail and then I edit. And then 00:37:16.130 --> 00:37:20.150 after that, I make the music and then I deliver 00:37:20.150 --> 00:37:24.719 it and post the video. But right now I'm in the 00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:27.579 the phase I just finished the shot list so I 00:37:27.579 --> 00:37:30.099 have actually printed out my shot list and I'm 00:37:30.099 --> 00:37:36.019 ready to I'm ready to start filming but I'm I've 00:37:36.019 --> 00:37:39.579 I'm barely working so I'm really focused on reading 00:37:39.579 --> 00:37:42.579 so I have no idea when this video is gonna come 00:37:42.579 --> 00:37:45.940 out and that's probably not a good mindset I'm 00:37:45.940 --> 00:37:48.920 very aware that that's a bad mindset actually 00:37:48.920 --> 00:37:51.909 but Really just want to read that's where my 00:37:51.909 --> 00:37:54.269 priorities are and here's why here's why I want 00:37:54.269 --> 00:37:59.150 to read because there's a Obviously, I'm very 00:37:59.150 --> 00:38:04.250 young. I'm 19 years old So I don't know everything 00:38:04.250 --> 00:38:07.750 and even if I was 70 years old even if I was 00:38:07.750 --> 00:38:10.750 a hundred years old I still would not know everything 00:38:10.750 --> 00:38:15.650 like that statement applies to everyone not just 00:38:15.650 --> 00:38:22.179 the youth but I'm very aware of this one concept, 00:38:22.340 --> 00:38:28.019 and this concept is that whatever I'm exposed 00:38:28.019 --> 00:38:31.940 to, like there are ideas out in the world that 00:38:31.940 --> 00:38:35.139 I'm not aware of currently, but if I was exposed 00:38:35.139 --> 00:38:41.260 to them, then my entire worldview would undergo 00:38:41.260 --> 00:38:46.019 a transformation, and everything I do after that 00:38:46.019 --> 00:38:49.460 point will be completely different. For example, 00:38:50.659 --> 00:38:54.619 two and a half years ago, I heard of this book 00:38:54.619 --> 00:38:58.059 called Reality Transurfing, and I started reading 00:38:58.059 --> 00:39:04.420 it. And that book completely fundamentally altered 00:39:04.420 --> 00:39:10.300 my worldview. And as a result, everything about 00:39:10.300 --> 00:39:14.730 my life changed. Like the entire trajectory of 00:39:14.730 --> 00:39:17.909 my life changed simply because I was exposed 00:39:17.909 --> 00:39:22.449 to this new idea. And that's kind of what I'm 00:39:22.449 --> 00:39:25.769 really paying attention to right now. I know 00:39:25.769 --> 00:39:31.789 that I, like I'm at the point where I'm kind 00:39:31.789 --> 00:39:34.809 of in despair because I only am getting like 00:39:34.809 --> 00:39:37.849 five to, I'm getting like 20 views each video. 00:39:38.750 --> 00:39:40.929 And like I said, most of those views are me. 00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:44.719 I'm in despair because I'm not getting views, 00:39:45.579 --> 00:39:50.480 but I also have a knowledge, like a quiet knowledge 00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:54.800 in my mind that I am actually pretty decent at 00:39:54.800 --> 00:40:00.119 making videos. Like my views are trash, but I'm 00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:03.579 pretty decent. Like sure, I still suck because 00:40:03.579 --> 00:40:07.449 I only have two years of experience. But if you 00:40:07.449 --> 00:40:11.170 look at my most recent videos like oh They just 00:40:11.170 --> 00:40:14.250 look so good like the thumbnails just started 00:40:14.250 --> 00:40:17.889 getting really good and Just when you look at 00:40:17.889 --> 00:40:21.690 my channel it looks legit And so I have it's 00:40:21.690 --> 00:40:25.469 like it's like a clashing I have this quiet knowledge 00:40:25.469 --> 00:40:28.250 that I'm pretty good and Like people that I meet 00:40:28.250 --> 00:40:30.630 for example just the other day. I took the train 00:40:30.630 --> 00:40:33.090 I biked all the way down to the train station, 00:40:33.090 --> 00:40:36.789 and then I took the train all the way to the 00:40:36.789 --> 00:40:40.650 Indiana Dunes and I was just walking along the 00:40:40.650 --> 00:40:44.210 beach talking to people and I met this guy he's 00:40:44.210 --> 00:40:48.929 a salesman and I told him about my channel he 00:40:48.929 --> 00:40:52.650 didn't look at it right away but when he left 00:40:52.650 --> 00:40:55.170 he looked at my channel on his phone and he sent 00:40:55.170 --> 00:40:57.750 me this voice message saying that it was like 00:40:57.750 --> 00:41:00.610 really good and then I've gotten that same exact 00:41:00.610 --> 00:41:04.010 response to Lots of different strangers, like 00:41:04.010 --> 00:41:07.670 people my mom talked to, they're like, oh, what? 00:41:08.130 --> 00:41:12.789 How is he not have more views? Maybe it's just 00:41:12.789 --> 00:41:15.389 people trying to be nice, but I feel like there's 00:41:15.389 --> 00:41:18.869 a difference because a year ago, for example, 00:41:19.210 --> 00:41:21.929 no one was saying that. No one was given like, 00:41:21.929 --> 00:41:24.849 whoa, how are you only at 400 subscribers? People 00:41:24.849 --> 00:41:26.769 were like, oh yeah, your videos are so good, 00:41:26.869 --> 00:41:30.670 but they would say it differently than they are 00:41:30.670 --> 00:41:34.119 now. I hope you understand what I'm saying, but 00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:37.639 basically I have the the two different clashing 00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:43.159 ideas in my mind of despair because I'm having 00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:47.059 No results on my videos, but also a quiet knowledge 00:41:47.059 --> 00:41:48.960 that I actually know I actually kind of know 00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:53.199 what I'm doing like sure I I still suck and I'm 00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:56.739 still Totally ignorant on how to do good on YouTube, 00:41:56.739 --> 00:42:01.940 but I feel like here actually I've been phrasing 00:42:01.940 --> 00:42:04.840 that wrong. I don't know what I'm doing, but 00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:07.659 I know that I will know what I'm doing, if that 00:42:07.659 --> 00:42:10.900 makes sense. Sure, maybe now, at this very moment, 00:42:11.300 --> 00:42:14.820 I might not be worthy of blowing up on YouTube, 00:42:15.059 --> 00:42:19.539 but I know that I'm really close to being able 00:42:19.539 --> 00:42:22.460 to do that. And I also know that I'm capable 00:42:22.460 --> 00:42:25.380 of developing that skill to do that, because 00:42:25.380 --> 00:42:29.599 I have evidence. I have knowledge that I am able 00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:34.719 to do that. Two years ago, I barely was good 00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:37.139 at anything in life. And yeah, sure, I got a 00:42:37.139 --> 00:42:40.860 lot better at soccer. But there was no creative 00:42:40.860 --> 00:42:45.320 pursuit that I had experience in to where I was 00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:51.300 able to improve a lot. And so I didn't have that 00:42:51.300 --> 00:42:53.860 knowledge that I could get better at something, 00:42:53.900 --> 00:42:57.460 that I could build professional level skill. 00:42:57.739 --> 00:43:00.619 something but for the past two years I've been 00:43:00.619 --> 00:43:03.539 practicing and working on my craft on YouTube 00:43:03.539 --> 00:43:07.539 and I've actually gotten a lot better so I have 00:43:07.539 --> 00:43:12.079 real knowledge of the fact that I can get better 00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:16.039 and so it's more of like a knowledge of instead 00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:18.719 of a knowledge of my own greatness it's more 00:43:18.719 --> 00:43:20.960 of a knowledge of my own impending greatness 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:24.480 or my own ability to achieve greatness if that 00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:30.130 makes sense so that's that's why That's where 00:43:30.130 --> 00:43:34.469 I'm at right now. But how this relates to me 00:43:34.469 --> 00:43:37.250 reading books and in the season of wanting to 00:43:37.250 --> 00:43:41.409 expand my worldview, it's because I know that 00:43:41.409 --> 00:43:43.530 I have this quiet knowledge that I know that 00:43:43.530 --> 00:43:47.750 I'm capable of having a very successful YouTube 00:43:47.750 --> 00:43:53.389 channel. But how that turns out is actually going 00:43:53.389 --> 00:43:59.099 to be highly influenced by what ideas I'm exposed 00:43:59.099 --> 00:44:03.099 to right now. For example, like I said when I 00:44:03.099 --> 00:44:06.059 read Reality Transurfing, my entire life trajectory 00:44:06.059 --> 00:44:11.239 changed for the way better and also the message 00:44:11.239 --> 00:44:14.519 that I share on my YouTube channel changed because 00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:16.739 of Reality Transurfing. Like Reality Transurfing, 00:44:16.900 --> 00:44:22.179 those principles are completely ingrained, intertwined 00:44:22.179 --> 00:44:25.639 with my message on my YouTube channel. And so 00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:27.739 that's where I'm at right now where I'm trying 00:44:27.739 --> 00:44:32.739 to find more ideas, more life -altering ideas 00:44:32.739 --> 00:44:37.099 like that that will completely change my future 00:44:37.099 --> 00:44:41.719 trajectory. And it's tough to find those types 00:44:41.719 --> 00:44:44.739 of video or those types of that type of information. 00:44:45.260 --> 00:44:48.039 Like Reality Transurfing I got accidentally by 00:44:48.039 --> 00:44:51.400 watching a YouTube video of Iman Ghaji. He was 00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:54.969 talking about Like these books, and he just mentioned 00:44:54.969 --> 00:44:57.469 Reality Transurfing. And it wasn't even a YouTube 00:44:57.469 --> 00:45:00.809 video. It was a YouTube short of some other person 00:45:00.809 --> 00:45:03.869 taking a, like cutting up that original YouTube 00:45:03.869 --> 00:45:06.929 video. Or it was like an interview with Iman 00:45:06.929 --> 00:45:09.670 Gaji or something like that. Basically, I've 00:45:09.670 --> 00:45:11.590 accidentally discovered Reality Transurfing. 00:45:11.630 --> 00:45:14.170 But now I'm trying to intentionally discover 00:45:14.170 --> 00:45:19.010 more life -altering, more fundamental ideas like 00:45:19.010 --> 00:45:25.239 that. I'm trying to find it. That's where I'm 00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:31.719 at right now. I'm trying to expose myself to 00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:37.179 a brand new worldview that will make my future 00:45:37.179 --> 00:45:44.420 message way more powerful and way better. It's 00:45:44.420 --> 00:45:46.559 hard for me to articulate that, but I hope you 00:45:46.559 --> 00:45:49.420 understand. That's it for this month. Peace.