103. A Massive Shift in Focus Ahead

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,400 Today changes are happening. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:10,280 So over the past hundred days I've been podcasting and I've been doing it daily, every single 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:11,280 day. 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:17,880 In the beginning I was recording short videos because to be honest I was not good enough 5 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:23,120 to speak for more than 10 minutes and some at times like four minutes was the most I 6 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:24,120 could speak for. 7 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,800 There was a lot of like small breaks in between. 8 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:33,640 And so when I moved on and I decided to do progressive overload, so what that means is 9 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:38,360 that in the beginning my first episode was probably like two minutes and then I added 10 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,480 it to three minutes and then five minutes and then 10 minutes and then 15 minutes and 11 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:48,080 then I just after every day, days recording of episode, it just went more and more and 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:53,760 more to the point where I got to one hour long episodes. 13 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:59,520 And the reason why I did that was so I can actually get to the point where I am skilled 14 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,880 enough to be able to speak for one hour because in the beginning if you go back to my first 15 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,680 episode I could barely even speak for five minutes. 16 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:09,680 So that's why I wanted to do that. 17 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:15,280 And also because in the beginning when I started posting podcasts, I did it because I read 18 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:22,160 in a book, Expert Secrets, Russell Brunson said that if you post daily on your show for 19 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,600 an entire year, you'll never have to worry about money again. 20 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:30,160 So I decided to podcast and post daily. 21 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:35,280 But then I also wanted to do long podcasts, like one hour. 22 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:40,320 And that was because when I first started or when I was listening to podcasts myself, 23 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:45,160 I used to like listening to the long form podcast because I was like trying to actually 24 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,040 learn a lot about that. 25 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,440 And so that that was just the type of stuff I preferred. 26 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,560 So that would be the type of stuff I would prefer to make. 27 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:59,640 So that's why I ended up doing daily one hour podcasts up until this point. 28 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,480 And it was very good. 29 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:07,080 I'm very glad I did it because it allowed me to gain all of this skill. 30 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:13,200 It allowed me to increase my like capacity and increase the actual skills that I have 31 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:14,200 for podcasting. 32 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,280 And as like just from the two minutes that I've been speaking right now, I'm already 33 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:23,240 so much more fluid and effective with my words than I was a hundred days ago when I first 34 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:24,240 started. 35 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,480 So I'm grateful that I did it. 36 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:29,640 Excuse me. 37 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:33,440 And moving forward, I'm ending that all. 38 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:38,040 I'm ending daily one hour episodes and I'll tell you why. 39 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,920 It's because I realized that I plateaued. 40 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:44,400 So in the beginning, I was growing a lot. 41 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:50,560 Like I myself was growing, not the podcast, not the channel, but my own like skills at 42 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:51,960 podcasting was growing a lot. 43 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:56,920 It was growing so fast in the beginning to the point where literally because I would 44 00:02:56,920 --> 00:03:01,240 post I would record and then I would schedule it for like five days later. 45 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:07,920 So by the time I actually posted it live, I had already recorded five more episodes. 46 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:13,560 And I remember looking back like literally just five days ago and I saw the growth just 47 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:14,560 from five days. 48 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,800 Like I was improving so much, but now it's not so much. 49 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:22,840 Now I'm kind of plateauing like my graph like skyrocketed after the little bit. 50 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:28,120 And then it started plateau for my skill level after a hundred days of podcasting, which 51 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:33,200 shows that there's there's something that needs to change in order to improve. 52 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:38,720 Another reason is that the quality of the podcast is either maintaining or it's slowly 53 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:44,560 atrophying because I'm having a hard time keeping up with enough content to say for 54 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,600 an entire hour every single day. 55 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:54,520 Got to the point where I was simply just speaking random stuff just to fill time just to get 56 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,280 to that one hour marker. 57 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:02,480 Like I kept on looking down at the number, the timer on the screen, seeing how long is 58 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,280 left so I can see how much more I have to talk about. 59 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:12,920 Now just speak on random things and I'd end up blabbering along and speaking on random 60 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,440 random things and to balance it was quite hard to follow. 61 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:18,880 And so changes are happening. 62 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:27,160 And I have two things that I'm kind of wrestling with either continue daily episodes, but shorten 63 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,400 the link. 64 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:35,200 Like just shorten it to 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes or however long I need to actually 65 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:36,760 say what I need to say. 66 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:42,200 So maintain daily recording, but not worry about one hour. 67 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:47,440 Just speak as long as I need to speak to get my point across. 68 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:52,320 Because like I said, I was just speaking words just to fill the time I ended up repeating 69 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,800 things over and over and over again. 70 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:56,320 Like I would just repeat this. 71 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,920 Like I kind of have a habit of it now where I'm kind of doing it right now. 72 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,500 So me repeating things over and over and over again was just to fill the time. 73 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:11,960 So if I just loosen the restriction of the one hour daily to daily, but it doesn't matter 74 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,640 how long it is, just like it could be 10 minutes. 75 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:17,200 It could be an hour. 76 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:18,440 It could be 90 minutes. 77 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,560 Like that kind of loose thing that could work. 78 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,600 I'm not sure. 79 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:31,160 Or I can maintain the long form videos and just have them every other day or once a week 80 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:37,000 or every five days or every three days, like just lower the frequency. 81 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:44,520 So right now I have one hour daily, which is one hour long constant frequency. 82 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:49,400 I can either shorten the frequency or shorten the duration. 83 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,960 So I can, those are the two options I have. 84 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:58,720 Shorten the time or maintain the time, but have less upload frequency. 85 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,600 So that's kind of what I'm wrestling with right now. 86 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:05,320 And right now, after this episode, after I'm done recording this episode and editing it 87 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:12,480 and scheduling it, I'll have seven days until I run out of daily posts. 88 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,580 So essentially I have episodes scheduled for seven days ahead of time. 89 00:06:16,580 --> 00:06:22,320 So this episode probably won't post until November 4th and it's October 28th. 90 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,880 So that gives me like seven days to figure out what I'm doing, like seven days to figure 91 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:32,640 this whole thing out, which is plenty of time, especially because there's massive changes 92 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,920 coming in my own life. 93 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,720 Let me speak on that. 94 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:43,960 So one of the big changes I'm making is, first of all, I realized that I'm dipping my toes 95 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:44,960 in entrepreneurship. 96 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:50,000 I'm dipping my toes in the waters of podcasting. 97 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,880 What I mean by that is, let me tell you a quick story to explain. 98 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:58,080 So when I started lifting weights, it was sophomore year. 99 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:02,720 And at the time, my goal wasn't really the physique, but let's just say for argument's 100 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:08,480 sake, my goal at the time was for the physique to build and make my physique and physical 101 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:10,480 body look better. 102 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,960 So I started lifting sophomore year. 103 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:17,760 And once I like went a few days and I realized like, oh, I actually like this. 104 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,520 I want to do this. 105 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,080 Then I just devoted my entire life to it. 106 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:27,440 Like I would literally just come home and make sure that I was just, I was getting a 107 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:32,880 bed at the right time every single day in order to wake up early because I would always 108 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,920 go to the gym first thing in the morning because that's how I prioritized it. 109 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:43,040 I always like the things I do first in the morning are always my priorities. 110 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:48,480 And that's another thing I want to talk about how I'm not prioritizing podcasting because 111 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,920 it's at the end of the day. 112 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:55,520 And let me explain, or at least I'm not prioritizing business because it's at the end of the day. 113 00:07:55,520 --> 00:08:01,640 But I am dipping my toes or no, let's okay, let's maintain the story. 114 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:08,280 I am going to the gym literally every day in the morning at 6am. 115 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:10,160 And I just devoted my entire life to it. 116 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:11,400 Like that's all I cared about. 117 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,880 I would go to the gym, go to school, come home, go to sleep, go to the gym. 118 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,600 That's all I thought about the gym, the gym, the gym. 119 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:22,520 I went to the gym every single day and I would rarely rest. 120 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,200 And if I did, I just rested just because I needed it. 121 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:30,080 And I would also make sure that I went to the gym on vacations when I was out of town, 122 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:31,160 like all this stuff. 123 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:40,480 I basically went full in on the gym and then flash forward fast forward two years later. 124 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,920 I'm just getting into business. 125 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,000 I just realized, oh, I want to get into business. 126 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,320 So then I just dipped my toes into the water. 127 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,680 I just test things out. 128 00:08:51,680 --> 00:09:00,160 I made, tried out improving my skills on website building, programming, other little things. 129 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,640 And then I eventually got to the point of where I tested my skills on podcasting. 130 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,760 And podcasting was the first thing I was actually really serious about and I actually maintained 131 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:10,560 for over 100 days. 132 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:14,520 And up until today, I'm still maintaining it. 133 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,240 But let's go back to the gym. 134 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,640 When I first started going to the gym, I saw people all around me who were just dipping 135 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:26,240 their toes in the water and they were just like, oh, let me just try this lifting weights 136 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:27,240 thing out. 137 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:31,400 Let me just go once a day and see what happens. 138 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,400 And so as a result, they didn't really get much results. 139 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:39,200 They, they just went once a week and they didn't get much results. 140 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:40,200 Sorry. 141 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,480 I think I said once a day, but I'm really saying they dip their toes, which means they 142 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,840 only went like once a week. 143 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:53,840 So if you go to the gym like once a week, once a month, every, every other week or something 144 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,120 like that, infrequently, you're just dipping your toes in the water. 145 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,000 You're just trying it out so you don't get very much results. 146 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,040 That's essentially what I was doing with business with podcasting. 147 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,960 I was just kind of testing it out, just doing it. 148 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:10,560 Yeah, I was doing it once a day, but I was, it was such a small part of my day and I wasn't 149 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:12,800 really focused on it too much. 150 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:19,120 Obviously, because I never edited, I never did any of like marketing or anything. 151 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,080 I was simply just focused on recording, which I'm grateful for. 152 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,480 Like I said, it improved my actual podcasting abilities. 153 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:30,920 And I, if I would have to go back and do it again, I probably would do it again. 154 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:39,440 But that, that also means since I'm plateauing, I have to just go all in or and like end everything. 155 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,920 Or I could just maintain this and not get any results, which end everything kind of 156 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,400 seems dumb because I've spent a hundred days building something. 157 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:53,960 Go, maintain this kind of seems dumb as well because I'm not going to get any results, 158 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,720 but I'm putting in like the same output every day. 159 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:01,600 So that leaves me with one option and it's to figure out how I can actually move forward. 160 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:07,400 And things that I'm doing is now that I realized I got to invest like everything into this 161 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,520 podcast because I want to get business. 162 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:14,240 Business is my actual goal, but I know podcast is the foundation to the business. 163 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:19,880 I want to build a podcast so that I can actually like figure out where to go from there for 164 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:24,080 the business and actually have traffic. 165 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:28,400 So that means that I like the podcast is my business for now. 166 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:32,240 That's my only thing that I am thinking about throughout the day. 167 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:36,400 So what I'm going to do is I am stopping the gym. 168 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,200 I'm just going to maintain. 169 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:44,000 And this morning I wrote down, I just mapped out like my plan for the gym. 170 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:49,280 And right now my current plans and they are subject to change, but my current plans are 171 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:57,640 one, like one day on the gym and then three days off and then one day on three days off. 172 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:02,880 So basically I go Monday and then I rest for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then I go 173 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:09,400 Friday and then I rest and then like it just one day on three days rest. 174 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:13,760 And on that one day on, I'm just going to lift the full body, full body, like, and I'm 175 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:15,480 just going to do supersets. 176 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:19,120 I actually wrote down all of the supersets that I plan on doing. 177 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:25,320 The way I like figured out my routine is I listed push, pull legs and then listed all 178 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:30,100 of the workouts that I already do under those columns. 179 00:12:30,100 --> 00:12:36,240 And then I literally just went on, I started on the left column and then went and I took 180 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,480 the top one from the left and the top one from the middle column and then supersetted 181 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:41,480 them. 182 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,760 And then the top one from the right and then the second one on the left and then supersetted 183 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:45,760 it. 184 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,480 And then just went down the line and just supersetted sets of two. 185 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:55,320 And that will allow me to literally just superset different muscles so I don't have to rest, 186 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:59,960 which is huge because that will allow me to be extremely efficient in the gym. 187 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:01,760 And a full body. 188 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:07,120 So I'm probably going to be spending like an hour or eight, like probably around an 189 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:13,520 hour or more in the gym, but it's going to be condensed because I'm not going to be spending 190 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,920 like 45 minutes for three days. 191 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:17,920 So it's different. 192 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:23,200 It's an hour, one day instead of 45 minutes, three days, which is 45 minutes at the gym 193 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:30,200 is more like an hour and a half because it takes me time to pack for the gym, bike to 194 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:36,560 the gym, shower at the gym, bike home and unpack from the gym. 195 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:38,720 Like all that takes time as well. 196 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:44,220 So one day is more condensed than three days because of the prep time as well. 197 00:13:44,220 --> 00:13:45,800 So that's where I'm at with that. 198 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,640 I'm radically changing things and that stems from one thing. 199 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:54,040 Be flexible and pliable to your plans. 200 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,040 You have to be able to radically change. 201 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:01,560 And I realized that one of my biggest flaws that I developed over the past couple of months 202 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:11,480 was I enveloped doing daily routines, strict regimented routines in my identity. 203 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:13,800 Like on, you can go back and listen to the podcast. 204 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:19,080 I was so proud of my extremely disciplined routine. 205 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:20,640 I did the same thing every day. 206 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:24,520 And then literally just a couple of days ago, I started realizing like, oh, this is actually 207 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:32,320 not good because this one video that I saw of how routines are making you weak, which 208 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:38,720 that kind of started to make me question because Alex Hormozzi literally almost a billionaire. 209 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:44,240 I'm not sure how rich he is, but he's like a multimillionaire. 210 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:45,480 He said that. 211 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,760 And then he also made another routine of called the anti routine. 212 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:53,520 So I started to realize that my routine is actually like not good. 213 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:58,240 So that leads me to destroying that part of my identity. 214 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,600 I realized that that was holding me back. 215 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:04,760 And it took me probably like three or four days to actually get to the point where I'm 216 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:11,160 starting to become comfortable or at least neutral with radically shifting my entire 217 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,720 routine because I'm going to be honest. 218 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:19,360 Once I saw that anti routine video, I knew I had to change it, but at the point it was 219 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:25,640 like, I was like, oh, I don't know for sure. 220 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:30,160 Like I, it was still so much part of my identity that I didn't want to change it, but I knew 221 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:31,640 I had to. 222 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:36,440 And so what I did was I ended up getting like sick two days ago. 223 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:42,040 And then I ended up just literally incorporating little pieces like fasting with intermittent 224 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:43,600 fasting. 225 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:48,760 And then I just literally over the past weekend or today is Saturday, but over the past two 226 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:52,000 or three days, I literally just did not do my routine. 227 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:59,780 And that was meant to like train me to accept the fact that your routine is not like required 228 00:15:59,780 --> 00:16:00,780 for success. 229 00:16:00,780 --> 00:16:02,960 If that makes sense. 230 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:07,400 And he said that you like all that remains is the work to be done. 231 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,360 Like that, that just kept on replaying in my mind. 232 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:13,640 He said all that remains is the work to be done. 233 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,800 Like you have to question like what's going to get you there? 234 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:18,040 What's going to get you success? 235 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:19,800 What's going to make you wealthy? 236 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:21,520 Well, it's the work. 237 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:28,200 So all that remains, like you can add on all these nice little fancy intricate daily routines, 238 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:32,720 which is what I had done till literally a couple of days ago. 239 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:36,480 But all that remains that is going to get you successful is the work to be done. 240 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,800 And I hadn't even done any of the work. 241 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:44,000 I've been, yes, I've been improving my podcasting abilities, like I said, but I haven't really 242 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:50,840 been improving the quality or figuring out how to actually, I don't know anything about 243 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,080 successful podcasts. 244 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:58,840 Like I'm so worried about successful worldview and all that stuff, which is great. 245 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,400 And I'm very glad I'm doing it. 246 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,000 But I'm not even thinking about how to make a successful podcast. 247 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,680 So that's the work to be done. 248 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:10,360 That's actually going to get me forward and I'm not even doing it. 249 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:18,160 So what Alex Hormozzi does is he literally just wakes up at 4am, works until 12, and 250 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:22,320 then like, I don't know what he does after that, but like he wakes up at 4am and then 251 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:24,680 starts working right there. 252 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:31,680 So what I realized is I still want to maintain a piece of my routine because to be honest, 253 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:35,600 I'm just not coming conscious that it's still slightly part of my identity. 254 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:43,120 But I also feel like I wouldn't be as efficient at working if I hadn't done the specific things 255 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:44,120 in my routine. 256 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:49,040 For example, right now my daily routine is simply just going to be stripped to the bare 257 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:50,040 bones. 258 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:58,200 I'm going to wake up, grab a glass of water with all my supplements in it, brush my teeth, 259 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:05,280 go to the bathroom, and then take a cold shower, which the cold shower I feel is really important, 260 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,560 especially because it's a shower. 261 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:12,480 I want to take a shower because I don't want to feel grimy while I'm doing the work. 262 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,480 So it'll increase the quality of the work as well as the cold shower will actually make 263 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,240 me more focused, I feel. 264 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,840 And then right away after I'm done with the cold shower, I do my meditation, which is 265 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:25,840 the gateway experience, which that is the one piece that I'm not quite sure if it's 266 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,640 even worth it, but I'm going to do it for now. 267 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:33,680 And then right from there, I get to work, which to be honest, I haven't even done any 268 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,960 work yet, which I don't even know. 269 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:44,880 My issue is, today I set out time to actually get to work on my computer, but the issue 270 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,800 is I don't even know what to do. 271 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:53,800 So I ended up just researching how to do better podcasts, and I realized that I need to actually 272 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:54,800 learn about this stuff. 273 00:18:54,800 --> 00:19:01,600 So I ended up buying three books, I believe, about podcasting, and I'm going to read all 274 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:06,720 of those, and then I feel like my vision for how to move forward after having read those 275 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,600 is going to be way more clear. 276 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:13,160 So then I'll actually be able to understand exactly what needs to be done. 277 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:14,960 And then I can just lock in on that. 278 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:21,800 And so then I have to ask myself, all right, shoot, that's another thing that I'm just 279 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:30,840 realizing on the spot that I have to get better at is my videos, even when I script them out 280 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:36,680 slightly, like just write down notes, like my notes, if you're on YouTube watching this, 281 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:41,440 you can see my notes are like very long, I feel like it would be better if I use just 282 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:46,160 bullet point notes, just say this, and then this, and then this. 283 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:52,640 And so it's kind of hard for me to follow these notes, so I end up going back and forth, even 284 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:54,480 though I have notes. 285 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:59,160 So I have to ask myself, why am I even podcasting daily? 286 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:04,800 If I'm just having low quality, if I'm plateaued, and on rework, I read, I finished reading 287 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:09,000 the book called rework, and it's a book about business and entrepreneurship. 288 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,000 I recommend it. 289 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,000 It's very good. 290 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,000 I finished it in two days. 291 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,160 It's a pretty quick read. 292 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,520 And they said something like, when you're small, when no one's even listening to you, 293 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,440 when no one's following you, when you are irrelevant and no one's even buying from you 294 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:27,920 as a business or a podcast or a YouTube channel or whatever, when no one's listening to you, 295 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:34,880 you have an extremely advantageous position because you can try out and experiment different 296 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:38,560 things and no one would be the wiser. 297 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:43,320 No one's listening to you in the first place, so if you make mistakes, it won't matter. 298 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:48,400 Versus when you're actually big and successful, you can't make as much mistakes because it 299 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,680 actually affects a lot of people. 300 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:57,400 So right, that kind of completely switched my attitude towards me being in this podcast 301 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:01,440 because I was thinking that I had to make, I had to stay consistent one hour. 302 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,960 And that was slightly because it was part of my identity, but also because, well, yeah, 303 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,880 it was because it was part of my identity. 304 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:13,160 But I'm realizing this is actually giving me a lot of comfort switching off of this because 305 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,800 I can make my mistakes now because no one's even listening to me, which brings me to the 306 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,680 next thing. 307 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:25,360 My podcast is all about documenting the journey and documenting the journey to success. 308 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:31,000 And so one of the things that I wanted to let you guys know along the journey is I want 309 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:37,640 to tell you guys my analytics along the way because I was always curious of how long it 310 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:45,600 took a YouTuber to actually get how much viewers or subscribers they got. 311 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:50,720 And so one of the things that I want to tell you guys now that I'm completely switching 312 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:55,440 courses, I want to tell you my analytics. 313 00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:00,440 So I just pulled it up on my screen here. 314 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:09,240 So I have today I have seven downloads, which is actually a lot or seven downloads on my 315 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:14,040 right now I'm talking about my podcast analytics, seven downloads today. 316 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:21,480 The last 30 days was 281 downloads, which is down negative 22% from the last 30 day 317 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,280 period. 318 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,920 And then my all time downloads total downloads is 987. 319 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:35,280 So probably by the time this video releases, I'll be at a little over 1000 all time downloads. 320 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:39,960 And then my rolling average subscribers, which is basically the amount of people who are 321 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:46,720 watching a video pretty consistently within the first 24 hours. 322 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:52,360 So pretty much like your average subscribers because they podcast directories don't actually 323 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:56,160 most of them don't actually like record the subscribers or the followers. 324 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:02,680 So it's kind of an average estimate that this my podcast software is giving to me and my 325 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,080 rolling average subscribers is five. 326 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,960 So I essentially have five subscribers. 327 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:15,440 So like giving that into terms I'm more familiar with YouTubers, like like YouTubers who actually 328 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,360 I see is slightly successful or successful to the point where I feel like they could 329 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:24,200 potentially make some money is people who have like 100,000 subscribers or more. 330 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,080 And right now I have five subscribers. 331 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:31,960 So then that brings me down to my graph from the past couple months. 332 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,240 So July I had 59 downloads. 333 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,120 August I had 313 downloads. 334 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:39,880 September I had 362 downloads. 335 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:46,480 And so far as of October 28th, I have 253 downloads. 336 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:50,800 And then my rolling average subscribers, July I had four followers. 337 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:59,760 August 6th, September 7th, and then so far in October, I have five followers. 338 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:07,640 And my number one most downloaded video is my trailer, which makes sense. 339 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,800 And that also leads me to another thing I got to change is my trailer. 340 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:17,560 I definitely have to post a new trailer because this one sucks. 341 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,640 And I don't want people to click on my channel and listen to the trailer and be like, oh, 342 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,000 this channel sucks, because I've definitely gotten a lot better. 343 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,320 Like I made that trailer 100 days ago. 344 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:34,320 And then my second most, okay, I'm just going to tell you my top five episodes where number 345 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:35,440 one is the trailer. 346 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,640 Number two is my first episode called Getting Out of Bed. 347 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,280 By the way, my trailer has 28 downloads. 348 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:46,360 The second episode has 26 downloads, or not the second, the first episode. 349 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:52,680 And then my third most downloaded video episode is called Grounding. 350 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,200 And it's the second episode, which has 18 downloads. 351 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:02,880 And then my fourth is the 20th episode called Today Was a Turning Point, which has 18 downloads 352 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:03,880 as well. 353 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:11,120 And then my fifth most viewed or downloaded episode is the 11th episode, which is called 354 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:15,000 Remember the Eagles, and that has 18 downloads as well. 355 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,320 And then there's like the top five locations. 356 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:27,920 Pretty much America, Canada, and Belgium are the top three countries in my list. 357 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:32,080 And that's pretty much my analytics for the podcast. 358 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:36,120 So then that leads me to analytics for TikTok. 359 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:43,960 I have 34 followers on TikTok and 284 likes total. 360 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:53,320 And then I get usually around a little over 200 views per post that I make. 361 00:25:53,320 --> 00:26:00,440 And then that leads me to my analytics for YouTube, which I've gotten 1.4 thousand views 362 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,360 total. 363 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:07,200 And then I've gotten 32 likes total. 364 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,800 Oh, wait, no, this is all on shorts. 365 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:10,800 Okay. 366 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:11,800 So these are my shorts. 367 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:23,000 I've got 4,000 views on the shorts, 32 likes, and then I have nine subscribers in my channel. 368 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:28,880 And my podcast on my YouTube, because I post my podcast on YouTube as well, the podcast 369 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,560 is very bad. 370 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:38,280 It's got like probably, yeah, it's got 26 views in the past 28 days. 371 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,080 Let me change it to the past 365 days. 372 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:47,240 Yeah, I've gotten 76 views total on my podcast on YouTube. 373 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:54,040 And that's after like a hundred episodes, or that's after like 96 episodes, I believe. 374 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:58,240 And then I've got like average view duration is two minutes. 375 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:02,600 So most people don't make it past two minutes on my podcast. 376 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,200 So that's another thing. 377 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:08,040 If people aren't even listening past two minutes and I have a one hour post, no one's 378 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,540 even gonna want to watch it. 379 00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:14,160 So that is another marker that I need to make some changes. 380 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,160 All right. 381 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,720 So that's like the first couple of things I wanted to talk about. 382 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:28,160 So some benefits to me recording less or less often is more time to research and make higher 383 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:34,120 quality episodes, which is huge, because like I've been saying, there's not like it's very 384 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:40,840 difficult to find enough content to talk about to keep the episode flowing very well for 385 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:48,040 the entire one hour, for daily one hour episodes, which is a big reason why I started reading 386 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:52,120 Transurfing the third time through so I could get some content to talk about, which to be 387 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:54,280 honest, I haven't even really talked about it that much. 388 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,520 I have a lot of notes. 389 00:27:55,520 --> 00:28:04,360 So I could make probably two or three Transurfing principles, one hour length episodes off of 390 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:08,240 those notes, which is good, but I haven't even used those yet. 391 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:14,000 So then another thing is I had to ask myself, why am I doing this and figure out where I'm 392 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,000 going? 393 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,480 And that's going to give me more time to do that in the day. 394 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:18,960 Why am I even doing this? 395 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,560 Well, why am I doing daily one hour? 396 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:22,680 Because it's part of my identity. 397 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,160 So where am I going? 398 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,120 I want to be successful. 399 00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:27,240 So is this helping me? 400 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,240 No, it's not. 401 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,400 All right. 402 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:40,160 So today, I actually, in my research on how to get better, I was listening to my friend's 403 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:46,840 episode because I wanted to see what he was doing and see if he was getting successful 404 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,960 because he was in a similar situation where I am and I wanted to see if he was getting 405 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,400 success so I could emulate that. 406 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,480 And what I found is that I actually found some things that he's doing that I'm doing 407 00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:58,480 as well. 408 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,920 So I found two big things. 409 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,840 Make truly standalone videos. 410 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:10,360 So what that means is, yeah, making standalone videos where you could get very good benefit 411 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,840 out of just watching one video. 412 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,320 But there's a lot of times where I don't fully explain something. 413 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,560 For example, I've talked about funnel hacking live. 414 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,280 People probably don't even know what funnel hacking live is. 415 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:30,360 It's a business conference by ClickFunnels, which is a software making website. 416 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,480 It's a software to make websites. 417 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:41,560 And the funnel hacking live is an annual business conference where entrepreneurs go and gather. 418 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:48,080 And it's kind of like a rock concert for entrepreneurs with a lot of motivational speakers and great 419 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:49,640 speakers that go there. 420 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:54,040 And it's like a four day long event. 421 00:29:54,040 --> 00:30:00,760 And I went there a couple, like a month ago and in September 26th until October 1st is 422 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,480 when I was there in Florida. 423 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:09,600 Like that's one thing I have said funnel hacking live in my episodes with the assumption that 424 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:10,600 people know. 425 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:15,960 And that's just one piece of information that I want to make sure that people understand 426 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:16,960 is a standalone. 427 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:22,320 So every single time I say something, I want to make sure that a person who does not even 428 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,280 know what I'm talking about can understand. 429 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:31,320 And I'm sure that there's some things that I talked about in today's episode that may 430 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:36,080 have not followed that rule already. 431 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:41,360 And then the second thing is get straight to the point. 432 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:45,080 Quit rambling and babbling to fill time. 433 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:50,560 That's what I was saying earlier in the episode where I just got to get straight to the point 434 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,840 and don't worry about the time. 435 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:58,720 And that will help with the entertainment as well because this is the entertainment industry. 436 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,080 Like I am podcasting to entertain as well as inform. 437 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:07,200 But first and foremost, important is to entertain because if people are entertained, they're 438 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,600 not going to get informed. 439 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,080 So that's very important. 440 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:17,480 And it's evident because in my YouTube analytics, people stop watching two minutes in. 441 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,600 So that's huge. 442 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,480 So a few things to note. 443 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:27,400 I've already said a few of these things, but become flexible and pliable with your plans. 444 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:32,560 Like don't be attached to stay on, what did I say? 445 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,640 Okay, don't be so attached to stay on a sinking boat. 446 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:41,800 Like if you're on a boat and it's sinking, don't be so attached to the boat to where 447 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:42,880 you want to stay on it. 448 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,720 You just jump ship and switch to a different boat. 449 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,400 So that's kind of what I realized I'm doing with this podcast. 450 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:51,600 It's a sinking ship. 451 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:57,280 I'm literally losing followers by the day, even though I only have like five followers 452 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,240 a couple of days ago, I had seven. 453 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,200 But that's like a sinking ship. 454 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,440 So I definitely got to improve the quality. 455 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:13,000 And then another one limiting belief prevents me from doing this is I incorporated daily 456 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,720 one hour episodes to my identity. 457 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,400 And I talked about that the whole episode. 458 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:23,920 So evidently moving forward, I got to do a lot better with my planning out. 459 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,800 And I got to figure out like what to do with this podcast. 460 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:34,080 But today's going to be the first podcast where I don't record a one hour podcast where I 461 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:40,480 don't post a one hour podcast in over like 80 days or 70 days. 462 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:45,560 Since episode 14, I've had daily one hour episodes. 463 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:50,060 Today's the first day where I am not doing that again. 464 00:32:50,060 --> 00:32:51,760 So that's all I got to say. 465 00:32:51,760 --> 00:33:01,040 I'm moving forward and tomorrow, October 29th is when I'm not going to record an episode. 466 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:05,000 I'm just going to figure things out because tomorrow is Sunday and I've got like the whole 467 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,120 day to just figure it out. 468 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:11,320 And then the three books that I ordered are coming on Monday. 469 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:12,880 And I'm just going to figure those things out. 470 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,400 I'm not going to record until I figure stuff out. 471 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,640 So I pretty much have seven days. 472 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:24,680 I have until next Saturday to realize like what I want to do. 473 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:32,040 And even longer because I'm probably going to end up doing long form like one hour videos 474 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,040 every couple days. 475 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,240 And that brings me to the TikToks and the YouTube shorts. 476 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:43,840 I may maintain three TikToks every day because I post three TikToks every day as well as 477 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:44,840 YouTube shorts. 478 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,960 I just post the same video on both platforms at the same time. 479 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:55,920 But I may maintain three daily, but I may want to change that because I'm still getting 480 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,840 better at recording those TikToks. 481 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,040 So it is beneficial for me to just get mass out. 482 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:08,080 But like I said, like once I get to a certain point where I'm plateauing, I definitely got 483 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,800 to figure out how to make it better. 484 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,560 For example, edit them. 485 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,840 Like I'm actually seeing some very good success on my TikTok. 486 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:20,600 Like 200 views per video I feel is very good, but actually compared to my YouTube, which 487 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,680 is like sometimes I get zero views. 488 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,640 So 200 views is amazing. 489 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:32,560 And I want to figure out how to make like get thousands or millions of views. 490 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,380 And the way you do that is by editing it. 491 00:34:35,380 --> 00:34:42,320 So I got to start editing those videos and I'm not sure if it's very sustainable to edit 492 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,440 three TikToks every day. 493 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:45,440 Maybe it is. 494 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,680 I don't know how long it takes to edit them. 495 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:52,800 I just pop them into editing software and it'll do it all for me. 496 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,600 So it may actually be sustainable. 497 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:57,600 Who knows? 498 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,920 I'll figure it out on that, but that's it for today's episode. 499 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,720 So expect big changes in the future. 500 00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:11,080 Tomorrow, like the episode that I post next, maybe tomorrow, it may be in a week. 501 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,360 Who knows? 502 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:19,560 Because I, like I said, this episode is posting on like the 4th of November and it's October 503 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,120 28th right now. 504 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,560 So I have seven days. 505 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,280 But that's it to wrap things up. 506 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,700 I almost did my outro, but I realized I dropped the outro also. 507 00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:44,000 So if you like the content, follow from warm and have a good day.