March 2025 Monthly Update

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Stories, that's what I ended it on last month.

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And I made two videos this past month.

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Things are going a lot slower.

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I'm going to be honest.

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I feel like I've been like falling apart.

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I got sick on around the time I finished making a video where I recorded myself doing 1,000

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dips in 24 hours.

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And that sickness lasted like a week and a half.

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And then I started like working on the next video.

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And then right after I finished recording that, I got injured from that video.

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And those are two excuses.

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In reality, I've just kind of been changing my routine.

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Before I was just like focused solely on work and now I'm eating more often throughout

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the day.

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I'm also watching a lot more YouTube.

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And it's kind of tough because it's a tough balance.

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Because I'm going to be honest.

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I am definitely watching.

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Like I'm having a lot more leeway with YouTube lately.

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And that's for good reason because you actually need to watch videos so that you know how

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to make good videos.

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But there becomes a point where it's a little bit too much.

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And I'm not like spending 10 hours a day watching.

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I'm probably watching for, I don't even know.

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But right now I'm in another kind of, not transition, but I'm in a kind of like a stagnant

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period where I know exactly what I want to do.

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I already have my next video planned out.

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But I need a couple hundred dollars to do it.

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Or I need like 200 more dollars than I have.

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And so right now I'm figuring out how to make that 200 dollars.

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And I actually came up with a pretty good plan.

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And I'm executing on the plan already.

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And I'm not going to say what the plan is.

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Because you know, you know how I do it.

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You know my style.

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But basically I'm trying to figure out how to make this next video work.

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And I'm spending a lot more time on my videos.

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Because I came to this realization.

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Every single video on my channel sucks.

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And it's not just because I need to get better at my craft.

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I need to get better at all that.

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Yeah, I still need to do that.

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That's a lifetime process of I'm forever going to need to get better at that.

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But it's also because I'm not making videos that people actually want to watch.

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You have to make a video about something that somebody would actually want to watch.

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Something that would genuinely evoke curiosity and genuinely, I don't know.

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I feel like I've been playing like the Cheapskates YouTube.

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Where I'm just trying to like, just in it for a buck.

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I'm just trying to take like the easy way.

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When in reality you go on YouTube and you see like people do crazy things.

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Even normal people that are like my age, you can, you see people do crazy things like this

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guy Jack Pembroke, I think is his name.

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He, his most recent video is, or actually one of his recent videos.

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He opened a better McDonald's.

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He literally like rented out a restaurant and opened up a McDonald's.

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And you could say, oh, he had a lot more money to do that.

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Sure.

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But his first video that he had like no money for, he literally flew to a random country

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and spent seven days with no money.

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Basically like homeless.

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Like that's something that people would actually want to watch.

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And I've been playing like the Cheapskates version of YouTube.

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And my next video is not the Cheapskates.

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So that's why, but I can't make it until I get like $200 more, which I have a pretty

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clear path to get $200 like a plan, not a path, but a plan, whether that plan will work

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out is a different story.

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But basically that's my update for this month.

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The stories that I'm working on are, I'm basically like just making videos of me doing stuff.

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Like my most recent two videos was I did 1000 dips in the past 24 hours.

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And then my most recent video was I tried doing pushups for 24 hours straight.

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That's it.

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I'm still working on making transformational videos, but it's just a different way of doing

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it.

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In my opinion, I think it's a more effective way because people change through story.

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And videos, the medium of video has visual storytelling and also audio storytelling.

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So you can put stuff on a screen and that's also a story.

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And with like self improvement videos where it's just a person sitting in front of a camera

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talking, that's just using like audio, even if they're sharing their life story.

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It's still just audio and it's not as potent of a transformative agent versus if you watch

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a like documentary or something.

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There's a documentary I watched recently, it's called Iceman or Project Iceman or something

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like that.

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This dude went to Antarctica and completed an Ironman, which is like a very long endurance

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based race of biking, swimming and running, swimming, biking and then running, swimming

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in like 30 degree temperature water, which is below freezing, which is incredible.

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That's an incredible feat.

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And that documentary is a very transformative documentary.

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That's the type of stuff that not like change your life, changes your life because in reality,

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there's no one thing that will change your life like a drastic change.

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The only way like the there's a common saying like it completely changed my life.

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No, it didn't really completely change your life.

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The only things that completely change your life are things where you're put in a completely

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brand new environment with brand new people, brand new set of social rules.

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That's what when you're putting that that completely changes your life like like drug

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rehab stuff and criminal rehab or whatever, all that, all those things completely change

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your life.

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But like a YouTube video is not going to completely change your life no matter if it's like a

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documentary.

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But what it does do is it like expands your worldview and it humans remember story.

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And so I noticed this in my life after I watched that video.

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I was like out on a walk and I was thinking about it.

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I like the thought popped up in my head of just little scenes in that in that movie of

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him pushing through a bunch of problems and hurdles.

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And that is what helps you change your life over time.

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But basically I'm taking it a lot more seriously.

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Like I've been taking YouTube seriously.

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And I noticed this over time there's always like leaps that I take where I go even deeper

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and I take it even more seriously.

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Every couple months I just go even more serious.

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That's basically it.

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I'll reveal what I am working on next month.

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Peace.