December 2023 Monthly Update

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,960 It has been a while since we've last talked, but I want to let you guys know something. 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:12,360 The podcast has been my focus for the past couple months, with the exception of the past 3 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:13,360 couple weeks. 4 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:19,200 And with that being said, I put in a lot of hours into it, and so I don't want to just 5 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:20,960 end it. 6 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:28,520 But I also realized that I'm focusing now, I'm now focusing on YouTube, and I'm focusing 7 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:34,880 on creating the best YouTube videos possible, and focusing on growing the YouTube channel. 8 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:41,600 And there's many reasons for that, the reasons why I switched from the podcast to the YouTube. 9 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:48,040 But one of the biggest reasons is because it's a lot easier to grow. 10 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:53,720 On the podcast, the only way to get discovered is to market yourself, is to go on to other 11 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:58,920 people's podcasts or do other marketing techniques. 12 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:04,640 But for YouTube, you can get discovered just by posting great content. 13 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,560 And so that's really what I'm focusing on forward. 14 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:14,920 And I'm going to be honest, over the past couple months, I've really been doubting whether 15 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,520 I'm choosing the right thing to focus on. 16 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:24,480 Because when I first started looking into business, I was really learning about how 17 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,640 you've got to create something that you're passionate about. 18 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:34,400 But you've also got to create something that is needed or people want. 19 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:38,280 And so the thing that I'm passionate about is self-improvement. 20 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:44,240 And what I've found is over the past couple months, I really started doubting whether 21 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,360 I'm actually doing the right thing or not. 22 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:53,120 Especially over the past couple weeks, I've been finding a lot more confirmation on whether 23 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,760 I'm doing the right thing or not. 24 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:03,400 One of the greatest confirmations that I've received is from a Hamza video that I watched. 25 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,840 And he said, it was about how to find your purpose in life. 26 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:13,880 And how to find not necessarily your purpose, but how to figure out what you want to do 27 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,600 with your life. 28 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:21,280 And so he basically said, ask yourself, what would your perfect day look like? 29 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,640 What would you spend most of your day doing? 30 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:29,120 So for example, Hamza, his thing, most of his day he would spend, like the first four 31 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,320 hours of his day, would be in the gym. 32 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,560 He would just train for a very long time. 33 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:36,680 That's his perfect day. 34 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:44,680 And then he also gave an example of maybe someone's perfect day is to play football all day. 35 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:49,400 And then so he basically said, figure out what your perfect day is. 36 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:56,840 And so for me, my perfect day consists of go to the gym in the morning and work on self-improvement 37 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:58,560 pretty much all day. 38 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:02,200 And very similar to what Hamza's is. 39 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:09,600 And basically what he said to do is figure out your perfect day. 40 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:16,200 And that's the most likely thing that you'll want to do with your life. 41 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,880 And so that's what you should figure out how to monetize. 42 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:25,280 So he said, playing football is going to be very difficult to monetize, but that's probably 43 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,080 what you should work on. 44 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,360 That's probably what you should strive towards. 45 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:36,320 And so that's one of the biggest things that confirmed me moving forward. 46 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:44,480 One of the biggest doubts and major moments that I had over the past couple of weeks was 47 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:53,520 one day I was watching YouTube and it was, I stumbled across a video of, it was something 48 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:59,240 along the lines of self-improvement is ruining your life or something like that. 49 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:03,880 Usually I don't click on those types of videos, but for some reason I felt urged to click 50 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:04,880 on it. 51 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:13,400 I watched it through and he talked about how a lot of people don't have hobbies to actually 52 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:15,840 make their life enjoyable. 53 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:20,920 A lot of in the self-improvement niche, a lot of like the self-improvement community on 54 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:27,240 YouTube especially, a lot of people treat self-improvement as their entire life. 55 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,680 And he explained it very well and I recommend watching that video if you're interested in 56 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:31,680 what I'm saying. 57 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:39,520 Basically, he was saying it's kind of like the metaphor or the analogy of a knight in 58 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:48,960 shining armor in the dungeon of the castle that's constantly sharpening his blade and 59 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:56,200 cleaning his armor and training and doing a lot of push-ups while there's a war going 60 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,760 on outside of the castle. 61 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:04,720 He's doing all this improvements, but he's not actually helping out on the war. 62 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,600 And so after watching that video, I realized I didn't have a hobby. 63 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,280 All I was doing all day is just self-improvement. 64 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:19,400 I literally just wake up right away, I drink the water with salt and supplements in it, 65 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:26,640 take a cold shower and then I work on the business or the YouTube channel. 66 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:32,280 And I guess the YouTube channel could be considered a hobby, but I don't see it as a hobby. 67 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:36,120 I see it as what I'm actually doing. 68 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,720 But so after watching that video, I realized that I didn't actually have a hobby and I 69 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,480 didn't know if I was actually like living a happy life. 70 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:48,360 And so I was kind of worried and then over the next couple of days, I really just started 71 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,800 thinking about it a lot. 72 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:57,440 And then I realized that I came to the conclusion after a couple of days that this is my hobby. 73 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,200 Self-improvement is my hobby. 74 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:06,240 And that's really, it was really good for me to come to that conclusion because I was 75 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:12,400 really struggling with that question of, am I even happy? 76 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,480 And then I realized that self-improvement is my hobby. 77 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:19,200 Like I enjoy improving myself constantly. 78 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:24,080 And so that brings me back to the YouTube channel. 79 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:25,920 That's my main focus now. 80 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:30,360 I'm starting to take YouTube a lot more seriously. 81 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:35,000 And I'm starting to actually create a lot higher quality content. 82 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:40,200 And the thing about that is I originally learned about it in a book called 10X is easier than 83 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,400 2X to focus on quality over quantity. 84 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:49,360 And I didn't really want to actually do that when it came to creating content because I 85 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:50,360 was selfish. 86 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:57,840 I was really selfish on YouTube or on podcasting, YouTube, TikTok, all that stuff. 87 00:06:57,840 --> 00:06:58,840 I was selfish. 88 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:04,960 I was just pumping out the content, high quantity, but it all sucked. 89 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:11,160 And as a result, I wasn't getting the results that I wanted on the channels. 90 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:15,800 And the thing is, if I didn't even want to watch the YouTube videos or the TikToks or 91 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:23,400 the shorts or the podcasts that I was actually putting out, how can I expect other people 92 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,320 to watch it? 93 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,840 And so that's what I really questioned. 94 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:37,200 And that's why if you go back on this podcast to episode 100, episode 104, really over the 95 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:45,240 since like episode 80, I think from episode 80 to 104, I was really struggling with, am 96 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,200 I even doing the right thing? 97 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:54,800 Am I just wasting my time pumping out quantity when I should be focusing on quality? 98 00:07:54,800 --> 00:08:02,560 And I'm very glad I made the leap to focus on quality because after I just stopped the 99 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:10,240 season one of the podcast and focused on making higher quality videos, I discovered that my 100 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:17,720 friend in my class has a YouTube channel and it's a very successful YouTube channel. 101 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:24,240 And so after realizing that, I was extremely excited because I just found my mentor. 102 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:25,720 He's my mentor now. 103 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:30,600 And so I told myself, I'm going to listen to every single thing he says and take action 104 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:32,840 on everything. 105 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:34,320 And that's what I did. 106 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:41,600 If you look at the first episode on this new season, which is called the first step to 107 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:48,800 self-improvement, and you look at the show art or the thumbnail on that episode, that 108 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,680 was like kind of my first thumbnail that I've made. 109 00:08:52,680 --> 00:09:00,400 And if you look at the episode that I'm going to be posting on December what day? 110 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,360 It's going to be December 8th. 111 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,440 That is where I'm at. 112 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:11,640 That thumbnail, if you look on YouTube, that thumbnail is where I've gotten after around 113 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:15,600 20 days of listening to his advice. 114 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:21,000 And there was an entire week that I spent not even listening to his advice because I 115 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,640 was out of town. 116 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:24,120 I was on vacation. 117 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,560 I was at Dominican Republic and I'll get to that a little bit later. 118 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:37,000 But one of the early quotes that I heard was, if you want to fast track your way to success, 119 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,000 get a mentor. 120 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:43,120 Like having a mentor allows you to get to success the fastest. 121 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:47,040 And so I never really had a mentor other than reading books. 122 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:52,360 And so I was extremely happy when I got an actual mentor for YouTube. 123 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:55,000 And so that's what I've been doing. 124 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000 I've been focusing on making better thumbnails over the past couple of weeks. 125 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:04,920 But I've gotten to a point where I'm fairly happy with my thumbnail skills. 126 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:12,240 But now I want to focus on my actual recording ability and my storytelling ability and just 127 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:15,080 all around my recording skills. 128 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,720 And so that's pretty much what I do. 129 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:26,040 Every single day I go home and create a thumbnail and I email it to myself because I go to school 130 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,680 and then show my friend. 131 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:32,840 So pretty much email it to my school account, my school email. 132 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:38,360 And then I pull it up every single day and show my friend and I get daily feedback from 133 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:39,360 him. 134 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,140 And that allows me to grow super fast. 135 00:10:42,140 --> 00:10:45,640 So my thumbnails have gotten a lot better. 136 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,120 It was just in like 20 days. 137 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:55,920 And I was just telling my friend Franklin about how if I wasn't, if I wasn't, if I didn't 138 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:01,680 have a mentor to tell me exactly what I needed to do, it would have probably taken at least 139 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:05,800 three months to get to the point where I had my, where I'm with the thumbs. 140 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:11,520 So it's, it's got, it's helped me a lot getting, having a mentor. 141 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:18,600 And as a result, I've been focusing on creating the highest quality thumbnails and highest 142 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:23,600 quality videos on the YouTube. 143 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,160 And my mentor has helped me a lot with that. 144 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:30,120 But I want to get into back to the podcast. 145 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:35,760 I want to talk about how it's actually one of the things that I said I was going to do 146 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,480 a while ago is be a guest on a podcast. 147 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:40,480 And I did. 148 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:41,920 I became a guest on a podcast. 149 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:49,120 And I believe I talked about it on the last episode of like the last episode on this podcast 150 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:50,720 called changes. 151 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:54,680 And then it was like new plans for the future. 152 00:11:54,680 --> 00:12:02,960 And I talked on a podcast called the personal growth project by Abigail Lang. 153 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,800 And she had me on and interviewed me. 154 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:11,560 And I think at the time I thought it was a great interview and when I was reviewing it, 155 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:13,760 I realized I stutter a lot. 156 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:18,000 And I might actually stutter a lot on this podcast as well. 157 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:23,920 And I don't realize it, which shows the value of reviewing your content and realizing where 158 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:29,480 you need to improve and where you got to get better at. 159 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:35,760 So that's another way to get higher quality is to review my YouTube videos. 160 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,640 And re listen to them and re listen to the podcast as well. 161 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,840 See where I need to get better at speaking. 162 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,440 So if you want to check out that episode, I definitely recommend it. 163 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,040 Maybe you're from that episode. 164 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:49,520 Maybe you came from that episode. 165 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:55,360 So if you if you did welcome, but if you didn't and you want to go check that episode out, 166 00:12:55,360 --> 00:13:00,600 it's episode 85 on the personal growth project. 167 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:05,120 But I also want to I'm going to keep changing the topics because I've got a few things I 168 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,000 want to talk about today. 169 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:12,560 And when I went to funnel hacking life a couple months ago, which is a business conference 170 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:19,800 for entrepreneurs, Russell Brunson, the speaker, the action, the person that organized it, 171 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:26,240 but he spoke and he talked about Napoleon Hill, who if you've never heard of Napoleon 172 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:32,960 Hill, he's the author of think and grow rich, which is one of the most successful self help 173 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,000 books ever released. 174 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:43,040 And it was he was he wrote it in like the 1930s and during like the Great Depression. 175 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:53,680 And there was a whole story that Russell Brunson talked about at the event about the law of 176 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:55,400 success. 177 00:13:55,400 --> 00:14:04,840 And it was basically how Napoleon Hill interviewed 2030 100, he talked to a lot of successful 178 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:10,640 people, Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller, Henry Ford, extremely successful people. 179 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,800 And he figured out what is the secret to success? 180 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,000 Like what is the formula for success? 181 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:27,040 And so he actually wrote, he studied them for like 2030 years and wrote a book called 182 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,400 the law of success and 16 lessons. 183 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,120 And it's the entire formula for success. 184 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:34,720 And I definitely recommend that book. 185 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,000 I'm about halfway done reading it. 186 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:43,040 And the first lesson in that book is called the master. 187 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:49,760 And I was familiar with that term, the mastermind, it's like where you kind of get a group of 188 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:54,560 people to gather that are all thinking about the same thing and all have similar goals 189 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:58,640 and you gather and then you kind of share information. 190 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:03,760 And I realized that the mastermind was a very beneficial thing to do. 191 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,480 But I didn't realize how powerful it is. 192 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:15,600 And he basically talked about how you actually create a second mind when or a third mind when 193 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:22,760 you are gathered with another person and you're like in harmony with them and you're thinking 194 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,080 about similar things. 195 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:26,880 So that's the mastermind. 196 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:32,680 And as a result, I started going to the park with my friend Franklin again, because both 197 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:37,200 him and I are on this path to success, we're on the journey to success and we're both 198 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,200 on self-approval. 199 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,320 So we have similar goals. 200 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:46,720 And we actually stopped going to the park together because I thought that it was a good 201 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:53,720 idea to stop talking about things, to stop sharing your plans. 202 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:59,520 Which the reason behind that was because I thought that I wasn't actually making enough 203 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:01,560 progress. 204 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:06,040 And there was some truth in that because I was just too much talking and not enough 205 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,280 taking enough action. 206 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:13,560 But we started the mastermind again and I'm very glad we did because I learned a lot. 207 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:17,000 And before I get into what I learned about that, I want to talk about how I went to the 208 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,800 Dominican Republic. 209 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,480 And no, you know what, let's not talk about that because it doesn't really matter. 210 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:27,400 I just went to the Dominican Republic and it was a vacation for family vacation and 211 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,360 we were on the beach in the mix. 212 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:30,440 But whatever. 213 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,320 I got a nice refresh from that. 214 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:37,480 But I want to talk about what I learned from a mastermind with Franklin yesterday. 215 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:42,640 And I realized there is one thing that he told me. 216 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:48,720 He's watching a full discipline guide by Hamza on YouTube. 217 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:54,360 And one of the things he said to me, Franklin told me that one of the things he learned 218 00:16:54,360 --> 00:17:01,200 on that full discipline guide is to be impeccable with the little things and to have a clutter 219 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:05,400 free desk, have a clear working environment. 220 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:12,200 And so I realized, oh, my desk that I work at is full of clutter and it's dirty. 221 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:17,040 And so that was the first actionable step that I took when I got home from that mastermind. 222 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:23,280 I actually cleared off my entire desk and now I only have the essentials, which is two 223 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:29,400 lamps and that's for my eyesight vision purposes as well as recording purposes. 224 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,360 It has better lighting. 225 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:38,800 And then I have my keyboard, my mouse, the mouse pad and the PC and my headset. 226 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:43,480 And that's pretty much all I have on my desk and the monitor also. 227 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:48,800 But oh, and my journal and pen and my water bottle. 228 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:54,740 Yeah, but pretty much I stripped out all of the non essentials and only have the bare 229 00:17:54,740 --> 00:17:59,400 bones and it's a very minimalistic feel. 230 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:06,480 And then I started thinking about how when he told me that you have to clear, like have 231 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:10,360 a minimal environment and have clutter free. 232 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:15,920 I instantly thought back to when I got rid of my bed and I got rid of my dresser and 233 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:24,040 I basically cleared my entire room and made my entire room empty and had and replaced 234 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:30,600 my bed with a mat and I started sleeping on a mat and now my and then I like basically 235 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:35,700 have nothing in my room except for like my mat and a fan and like a journal. 236 00:18:35,700 --> 00:18:42,240 And so I started thinking about how that affected me and my focus and my six, like my discipline 237 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:46,720 and all that, and it definitely positively affected massively. 238 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:51,480 And so I started thinking about how my closet is actually cluttered. 239 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:57,440 Like I ignored my closet when I was getting rid of all of when I was basically clearing 240 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:58,840 my room. 241 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:06,240 And so the second thing that I did after clearing my desk is I went upstairs and I cleaned 242 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:11,800 out my entire closet and I got rid of everything in that. 243 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:17,760 And in my closet, I probably had like a hundred books or maybe not a hundred books, but probably 244 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:23,040 like 50 books all stacked up and like four or five stacks. 245 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:31,040 And then I was thinking about, I heard Garrett J. White say one time, he said that he actually 246 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:38,360 cleared he had like thousands of books in his closet and he actually rented a dumpster 247 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:43,040 and cleared out all of his books except for like five. 248 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:47,280 He chose five books to keep and cleared out all of the rest. 249 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,800 And that was one of the best things that he did. 250 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:55,440 And I never took action on that until yesterday when I cleared out all of my books and I didn't 251 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:56,440 throw them away. 252 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,920 I just put them up in my attic. 253 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,600 And so now my closet is stripped of the bare bones as well. 254 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:10,880 I just have my dresser, a filing cabinet and my blankets on top of my dresser, my pillows 255 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,280 on top of my filing cabinet. 256 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:22,200 And then I have my four, I chose five books, which the five books I chose is called The 257 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,760 Law of Success in 16 Lessons, Reality Transurfing. 258 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,560 And then I chose Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson. 259 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:37,080 And then the fourth book I chose was called Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins. 260 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:41,720 And I only chose that because I was planning on reading that next and I'd never read that 261 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:42,720 before. 262 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,480 So I wanted to keep it downstairs. 263 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,240 And then I also chose 10x is easier than 2x. 264 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,160 So those are the five books that I chose to keep up there. 265 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,960 And so that's pretty much all I have in my closet. 266 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,680 It definitely feels great. 267 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:05,560 I 100% recommend you to clear out your entire closet and your room and just declutter everything, 268 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,520 get rid of everything and go minimalistic and be minimal. 269 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:11,480 All right. 270 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,160 So I've got a few more things to talk about. 271 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:20,600 Another thing that I learned is about kind of discipline, but also making kind of training 272 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:25,600 yourself to love doing the hard things. 273 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:29,960 And I learned about this on an Andrew Huberman video. 274 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:34,440 He basically said, don't tell people your plans. 275 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:40,040 And this was one of the reasons why I didn't want to have a mastermind with Franklin anymore 276 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:47,040 a little while back, but I didn't watch the Andrew Huberman video until like a couple 277 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,280 days ago. 278 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,040 And Andrew Huberman explained it very well. 279 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:58,360 If you tell people your plans prior to doing like taking action on it and you're actually 280 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:07,200 not gonna, your like chances or odds of doing it, of actually going through with your plans 281 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:18,000 are much lower because of the like good feelings that it rise or because of the like good reaction, 282 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,480 positive reactions from the people that you tell. 283 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:29,200 And basically the actionable or the actual tips that he gave were to avoid a dopamine 284 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:35,040 peak before or after doing hard things. 285 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:43,320 So for example, let's say you are gonna choose your, okay, let's say you want to run a marathon 286 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,800 and you decide that you're gonna start training for a marathon. 287 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:52,160 And before you start training for the marathon, you tell your friends, I'm going to run a 288 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:58,800 marathon and then they like congratulate you and they say, oh, you can do it and they get 289 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:00,880 really excited for you. 290 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,960 That is that creates a dopamine spike. 291 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:10,840 And as a result, you're actually your chances of actually doing the training for the marathon 292 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:12,640 drastically drop. 293 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:17,960 So avoid dopamine spikes before doing hard things. 294 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:24,480 And then also afterwards, he said, avoid a hot fudge Sunday after the marathon. 295 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:30,040 Avoid immediately rewarding yourself after doing hard things. 296 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:36,400 And he actually brought up a study of children who liked to draw. 297 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:44,240 So people, so children who enjoyed drawing and actually did it on their own without being 298 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,960 told to, they just, it was their hobby. 299 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:48,600 That's what they enjoyed to do. 300 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:57,640 And so the scientists gathered or researchers gathered a group of children who enjoyed to 301 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,040 draw. 302 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:07,160 And once the children like finished their drawing, the researchers gave them a golden 303 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,040 star. 304 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:17,160 And so as a result, the kids actually got rewarded and they had a dopamine rush like 305 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:22,280 a dopamine spike because they liked the golden, like the golden star. 306 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:26,720 They enjoyed it because that would make them feel good. 307 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:32,480 And so then they drew, like they kept drawing more and more, they gave them golden stars 308 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:37,240 and then they actually stopped giving them golden stars. 309 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,080 And as a result, the children stopped drawing. 310 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:47,480 They actually stopped doing their hobby, the thing that they enjoyed to do because they 311 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,280 stopped getting rewarded for it. 312 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:58,320 So the two main things that I've been thinking about lately is to stop doing, like avoid 313 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:03,280 dopamine spikes before and after doing the hard work. 314 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:11,040 And then the actionable step that he said is to try and get dopamine spikes during the 315 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:12,360 hard work. 316 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:16,040 Try and cultivate a dopamine spike while you're doing the hard work. 317 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:23,560 And the way he did it was he told an affirmation, which I didn't memorize the affirmation entirely, 318 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:30,560 but it goes something along the lines of, I am doing this by choice because I love it. 319 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,600 Like I am choosing to do this because I love to do it. 320 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:41,360 And so it makes a lot of sense because especially like a year ago when I was biking to the gym 321 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:49,160 every single morning in the dark, in the cold, in the rain, it didn't matter rain or shine. 322 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,480 I was biking to the gym every single morning and I would always do it. 323 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:58,560 And then every once in a while, I would just be like super hype while I was biking, especially 324 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,600 if it was raining, I would just get super hype. 325 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,200 I'd be like, let's go. 326 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:04,720 This is so awesome. 327 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,080 Like it would be a lot more. 328 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:13,200 It would be more like let's freaking go this is so or like I'm freaking hype or I'm a 329 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:19,520 beast like you know, and I would just get super hype just biking, especially in the 330 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,120 rain. 331 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:26,480 And like I would cultivate dopamine spikes during the hard work. 332 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,480 And that was completely by accident. 333 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:35,800 Like I was purposely getting hype, but I didn't realize what I was doing of training myself 334 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,640 to enjoy doing the hard things. 335 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,080 So it kind of clarifies a lot. 336 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,480 And now I actually use it to my advantage. 337 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:49,160 Now every single time I'm like doing a set, like lifting or I'm like running or anytime 338 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:56,640 I'm doing something hard, I just get like I try to cultivate a dopamine spike. 339 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,480 And I found that it's actually helped a lot. 340 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:04,960 And he said, do it during the moments of like highest tension. 341 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:10,800 So one of the things that I do is especially when I'm like sitting down to do work, like 342 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:17,000 work on the YouTube or work on editing or thumbnails, like all that stuff. 343 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,520 Usually I'm able to, a lot of times I'm able to just get right into it, but a lot of times 344 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:27,320 I like am really tempted to just watch YouTube or do something that I shouldn't actually 345 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:28,320 be doing. 346 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,960 And so during those moments, those are the moments of highest tension. 347 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,920 That's when I should be saying to myself, I'm doing this by choice. 348 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,640 Because I love it. 349 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:41,960 So that's one of the best tips that I've learned over the past couple of weeks. 350 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:48,120 And I've been, I've actually been slacking over the past couple of months during the 351 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:56,000 school year because I thought that I wasn't going to be able to maintain my routine or 352 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,280 not necessarily routine, but I thought I wasn't going to be able to maintain cardio during 353 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,200 the school day or the school year. 354 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:04,400 And that was just dumb. 355 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:11,120 And now I have a new routine of doing cardio and, and go into the gym, but that's kind 356 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:12,120 of a sad tangent. 357 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:16,960 And I want to talk about the last thing I want to talk about today. 358 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,200 And it's the YouTube. 359 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:24,360 I am starting, like I said, I've started to take it a lot more seriously. 360 00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:29,520 And one of the things I realized I got to do is I have to start coming up with great 361 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,320 ideas. 362 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:38,200 And so what I've been doing is like, there's two things in the youth in like two skills 363 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:45,240 and two skills for being a YouTuber that you can't necessarily outsource. 364 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:49,160 And it's creating or it's coming up with great ideas. 365 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:55,840 Yes, you can outsource coming up with ideas, but you can't really outsource coming up with 366 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,600 great ideas that are unique and original to you. 367 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:07,600 For example, one of the things that is unique to me, and yes, a lot of other people have 368 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:16,960 it, this like topic, what that I'm about to reveal is social anxiety and sweaty hands 369 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,120 and sweaty armpits in social situations. 370 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:22,640 That's a unique thing to me. 371 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,400 And that's, that's one part of the coin. 372 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:32,480 The other side is if the, if you can have great editing, a great thumbnail, but if the 373 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:37,000 idea is bad, then it, the video sucks. 374 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:43,400 So that's why I'm dedicating like 10 to 15 minutes every single day, just sitting in 375 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:50,960 silence with my pen and journal coming up with as many YouTube video ideas as possible. 376 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:58,200 So that's one of the skills that I like can't really be outsourced and the other skill that 377 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:03,480 can't be outsourced is actually recording and actually being in front of a camera. 378 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:10,400 And so that's also why I'm dedicating time every single day sitting in front of a camera 379 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,160 practicing my like being on YouTube. 380 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:22,200 And so like I said, I'm getting a lot more serious and going back to the idea generation, 381 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:29,000 you can have a very saturated idea and it's not going to get very many views. 382 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:34,160 For example, the first couple of videos that I was making were like the first three steps 383 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:42,840 of self improvement, discipline, like discipline, meditation and breaking up with your phone. 384 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,080 Those are very saturated topics. 385 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,360 Like a lot of people are making videos about that. 386 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:53,560 And so not, so it's my videos are not going to do very well. 387 00:30:53,560 --> 00:31:00,400 What I realized is I need to come up with video ideas that I would be embarrassed, scared 388 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:09,360 or ashamed if other people that I knew, especially my parents and friends, if they found out 389 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:15,000 about that video that I made and watched it or even saw the title. 390 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:20,560 Like those are the types of videos I've got to be making in the future, which the social 391 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,680 anxiety topic is one of them. 392 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,760 And another topic is mediocre parents. 393 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:32,680 That is one of the, that's one of the topics that's very controversial and I'm very nervous 394 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:38,600 to release and I just recorded it a couple of days ago and then I re-recorded it today 395 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,480 because it was not as good as I wanted it to be. 396 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,040 So that's what I realized. 397 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:51,040 I had to be extremely prolific on YouTube and like be like true to myself and speak 398 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:56,120 about ideas that I would be scared to release. 399 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,120 So those are the types of ideas that I generate. 400 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:08,200 Things that I would be scared, embarrassed or like worried or like ashamed if actually 401 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:15,080 ashamed is not actually, yeah, in my use, in this use of ashamed, it's a good use, but 402 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:22,800 I'm not going to like post bad, like harmful, offensive content, like not that kind of ashamed. 403 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:30,080 Like those like the afraid, worried, nervous, embarrassed and ashamed, those are the emotions 404 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:35,840 that I need to be drawn up when I come up with ideas. 405 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:42,600 So that's what, that's another big thing that I have changed lately on the YouTube. 406 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,000 So this is the monthly update. 407 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:52,360 It's December 3rd when I'm recording this podcast and I'm going to be, I'm going to 408 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:57,360 be recording the monthly update every single month. 409 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:05,200 So you can expect a January update and I believe for the time being I'm going to be posting 410 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:11,400 the bonuses still, but I don't really like posting bonuses because it's kind of recycling 411 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,840 the content that I'm making. 412 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:20,040 But for the time being I'm going to be posting the bonuses just to kind of maintain some 413 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:28,600 level of high frequency in the upload schedule because monthly uploads I feel is not as good 414 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,920 as weekly. 415 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,200 But that's pretty much it for the episode. 416 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:43,080 So check out the just, I don't even know what I'm saying, but the next update will be January. 417 00:33:43,080 --> 00:34:04,560 So have a good month.