Practice #49 - Love The Work Not The Results

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So I have this rule on my YouTube channel that I initially employed because I wanted

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to build my, I wanted to train my brain to love the act of doing the work and to love

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the process of building YouTube videos.

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And the rule is to not check my analytics until Thursdays.

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So I post my videos on Fridays and so that means that I don't check my analytics until

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six days after it's posted and the day before the next one post.

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So this gives me the opportunity to post an entire good video and then work an entire

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week on a brand new video with a clean mindset without any prior like alterings from the

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looking at the analytics from the previous video.

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So let me explain.

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If you go, if you're posting once a week like I am and you post on Fridays, let's say that

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you decide to look at the analytics right away.

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You post your video on Friday and then you look at your analytics on Saturday.

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And first of all, oftentimes in my videos, the spike doesn't even happen until a couple

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days later or it's like a slow buildup.

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So like the actual final result is not till like four or five days after the post.

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So you're probably going to get a bad, like you're probably going to get a bad reward

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from that.

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You're going to look at those analytics and you're going to think like, oh, I did bad.

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And then you're, that's going to affect your process on the next video.

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Excuse me.

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You don't want to affect your process on the next video and you don't want that.

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So it's best if you just don't look at the analytics until you're done with the next video

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because then once you check those analytics and they're not as good as you thought, then

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you've already finished the next video.

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So then you can be like, oh, but this next video that's going to post tomorrow is so

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much better.

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So it like, then you can completely dismiss those analytics or you can just celebrate

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in those other analytics.

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For example, two times so far, this has saved me because when I posted my video on how to

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get jacked in high school, it did not do good.

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And I didn't know it didn't do good because I didn't check until I finished the next video.

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But my mindset was on, was still on the old video, which was like my monk mode video.

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So let me, okay, let me clear things up.

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The first video in this like story that I'm going to tell was monk mode.

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I got 800 views on that.

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The second video, which actually is a lot because I'm used to getting like 10 views

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or five, like actually I posted my first hundred videos and they got zero views.

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So 800 views is a lot.

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That's the standard right now for, for the time being for this episode.

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So the monk mode 800 views and then the next video that I posted was the how to get jacked

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in high school.

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That got 300 views.

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Actually I think it got a lot worse.

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I think it got like 150 at the time that I ended up checking it one week later.

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And then the next video after that was the, I don't actually remember if this is all the

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right order, but the next video after that was the delete your social media account video.

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Check out 1200 views.

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So that one was my best video pop yet.

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And then after that, the next one after that was the one that I want to focus on in a little

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bit, which is the change in your room.

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It was the one that I talked about to time you max.

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So this whole thing, let's go back now that you know the order.

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I built my monk mode video from the wind prior, which was a good video.

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It's like 200 views.

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So that means that I was in good mind.

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And then I built that monk mode video and then I posted it.

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And then I didn't see, I wasn't really thinking about the previous week's analytics from before

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the monk mode while it's building the next one, which was the jacked this.

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Okay.

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I'm doing a terrible job explaining this.

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I'm just, I'm not even going to try anymore.

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What I'm going to do is I'm going to say that when you wait an entire week, when you delay

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your checking of the analytics for an entire week, what happens is you can easily dismiss

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a negative result because the next video has already been produced, which is if you're

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doing things right, like I am, you're making the next video 10 times better than the one

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before.

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So you can dismiss a negative result from the previous video or from the previous week

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analytics because you've already improved so much better because that's not your standard

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anymore.

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So you don't have to tie it to your network, to your, your self worth or your identity.

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And then another reason why this is so valuable is because I'm training myself to focus.

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I'm training my mind to love the work and not the reward because if you check your analytics

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often, you're basically training your mind to say, Hey, I'm only doing this for the reward.

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I'm only doing this if I get a good reward, if I get a lot of views, if I get a lot of

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subscribers, but that's not a very long term thing because you can't directly control your

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view count.

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You can't directly control your subscribers.

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But what you can do is you can control whether you're getting better every single day.

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You can control whether you're posting a better video than last.

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And so you can train like what I'm doing is I'm training myself to make sure that I'm

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posting a better video every single week.

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And I'm training myself to focus on the things that I can control, which is making better

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videos.

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And what I cannot control is the view count.

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I can't control that directly.

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But the funny thing is when I make better videos that ends up getting better view counts.

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And I want to talk about how this also saved me because my video that I posted last week,

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I believe that that was my best video I've ever posted up to that point.

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And I was excited because the video that I posted before that was my social media video

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got 1.2 thousand views.

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But the one that I posted last week was so much better.

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And I thought it was such a better concept and such a better unique original idea.

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I thought it was going to get like 10,000 views.

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And so I posted and I don't check analytics for the whole week.

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I have extensions on my Chrome browser to block all analytics.

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So I can still use my YouTube studio and all that, but I don't get spoiled by looking

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at the analytics.

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And I basically go the whole week being really excited because I improved a lot.

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My last video was very good.

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So now I'm going to make another video and it's going to be even better.

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And I made that video.

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It's posting tomorrow.

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It's being scheduled tomorrow as of recording this.

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By the time you guys listen to this episode on the podcast, it's going to be long before

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that.

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So this episode is probably not going to release until February.

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And I'm recording this on January 25th.

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So it is, this video is called How to Build Discipline in High School.

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That's what it's called right now.

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And I really think that this is my best video I've ever recorded.

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And it's also the longest video.

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It took me like 40 minutes of recording and I ended up cutting it down to 13 minutes.

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And it took me probably like 15 to 20 hours of editing.

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Actually not that long.

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But I did spend a long time.

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I spent all of Sunday morning.

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The way I work my days are I have two deep work sessions.

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So I have one session in the morning from around 6.30 until 10 at the latest.

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I usually work until I'm just like, you can tell when you're like, you lose all of your

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creativity.

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So I work until then, which is usually like one to two, well, like one to three hours

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depending on the day.

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And it's getting longer and longer the more I practice this because it's a skill.

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Deep work is a skill.

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And then the next deep work session is after my one hour walk, which is after breakfast

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and after a meditation.

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So I basically meditate, eat breakfast and then go on a one hour walk.

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And that all basically heals me back up to work again for another deep work session.

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And that's another one to three hours.

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So I basically work on this video all week from Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

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and I just finished it this morning.

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And I'm really excited about it.

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And the thing is that I'm training my brain not to care about the analytics because I

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checked my analytics after I scheduled this video.

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So the how to build your discipline video that I am scheduled for tomorrow, I already

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scheduled it this morning.

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And then after that, I checked the analytics from the week prior.

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And you know how much I got for context.

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The week, the video before that got 1.2 thousand views.

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And you know how many views this one got?

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68.

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68 views.

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Now, if I wasn't training my mind to love the work and if I was training my mind against

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that and to train for the reward, then I would be extremely devastated.

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But I'm not because two reasons.

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I love the work.

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I got so much value just from building the video.

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And another thing is that I already am approved so much more.

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That's not tied to my identity anymore.

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How to build your discipline?

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That one is tied to my identity right now because it's so fresh.

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It's like that is my peak performance right now.

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But in one week, that's not going to be anymore because I'm going to prove again.

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So that's not going to be part of my standard for myself.

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So 68 views and I don't mind.

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It happens.

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No one said this journey was going to be easy.

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And that's what I'm excited to tell you guys because the moral of the story is when I was

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going on a walk, this happened a couple of weeks ago.

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I was going on a walk and what happened was that thought popped in my head.

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It was something that I heard on a YouTube video a couple of days before Mr. Beast said

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something along the lines of he had a small creator mindset.

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When he was on the up and coming, so when he had like 20,000 subscribers, 1000 subscribers,

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when he was really a small creator, he had the small creator mindset.

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He thought that his videos deserved one million views.

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So in hindsight, when he was looking back at that time, he knew that they did not deserve

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one million views and they were because they were bad.

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They were just bad.

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He had the small creator mindset.

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He was blinded by his attachment to those videos that he couldn't see the truth that

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they were actually bad.

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And so that is kind of what I'm experiencing also.

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I think that my videos should be so much better.

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I should get so much better results, but they're actually bad right now.

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I know that they're bad right now because obviously I got 68 views on the week before

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even though that was my peak workload.

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So that just tells me that I just got to get better.

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That's another thing that I'm helping fight against the small creator mindset is to make

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sure that I don't check my analytics until a week after.

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So I'm not extremely hyper focused on the results.

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So I'm just focused entirely on getting better work done, getting better thumbnails, getting

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better intro, getting a better recording, getting better storytelling.

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There are infinite things that I can get better every single time.

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And this storytelling is helping a lot.

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I actually am really glad that I got this book that I'm reading right now.

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It's the Power of Personal Storytelling.

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I'm not even halfway done with it and it's already started to revolutionize my life.

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The amount of confidence that I've built just from taking action on those steps is immense.

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It's insane.

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inside the story.

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I think that was something.