Practice #14 - How to achieve goals

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,880 There's lots of ways to achieve goals, but if you have a goal like mine, right now 2 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:14,200 my goal is to be a YouTuber. That goal takes time, that goal takes time, work, and 3 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:19,760 many different things to achieve that. But one thing I realized early on, and I'm 4 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,800 very glad that I realized this was, yes you can do all these tactics and all these 5 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:29,720 tricks to actually achieve it, but you want to know the secret. The secret is 6 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:35,120 pretend like you already are one. It's as simple as that. Simply just look at what 7 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:40,680 YouTubers are doing and then just do that. Or pretend like you're already a 8 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:46,340 YouTuber. So what that means is you build your schedule as if you're already a 9 00:00:46,340 --> 00:00:53,480 YouTuber. So just today I was building my schedule because I finished school so I 10 00:00:53,480 --> 00:01:01,000 have a lot of time freed up. And so the way I built my schedule, my perspective on 11 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:07,400 building that schedule was from a YouTuber perspective. And it's just so much 12 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:12,520 better that way because first of all you have that identity shift. So you're 13 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:18,560 actually treating it seriously. And then you also, since you're basically 14 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:25,560 already are a YouTuber now, you are doing the actions. So you're a YouTuber now. 15 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:31,360 So now you tell yourself, oh YouTubers do this, YouTubers do that. So what 16 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:36,720 I'm doing is, oh YouTubers edit videos, YouTubers make thumbnails, YouTubers 17 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:42,960 record. Now obviously not all YouTubers edit and make thumbnails because they 18 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:48,600 outsource it. But like in my situation right now that's what I'm doing. And so I 19 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:55,080 just get down to work and get straight to all of these different things. So over 20 00:01:55,080 --> 00:02:02,880 the next couple episodes I am going to be talking about different topics but 21 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:10,560 they're all topics that I thought were the best topics to talk about. And the 22 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:16,680 thing is that when I'm brainstorming my ideas, I could just come up with like 23 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,640 the coolest title or like the best idea. So for example the idea for this video 24 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:28,680 was how to achieve a goal or like why you're not achieving your goals. And then 25 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:33,960 I was thinking about how I changed that perspective to, oh I've already achieved 26 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:38,600 my goal. It's just a matter of time of actually waiting for it to happen. Like 27 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:44,360 when I realized that that's what I wanted to do be a YouTuber, I just 28 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:49,320 have already decided that I've already achieved it. Like I already am a YouTuber 29 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:56,040 now. So it's time to act like it. Like I've already am a YouTuber. 30 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:04,040 Like there's no like debate around it. There's no question of it. It's just a 31 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:11,200 matter of time before my skill catches up and then I start to actually gain 32 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:38,760 some traction. But for the time being I still am a YouTuber so nothing changes.