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Feb. 27, 2024

Practice #69 - Define Your Perfect Day And You Will Never Wander Again!

Practice #69 - Define Your Perfect Day And You Will Never Wander Again!
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You will forever be wandering until you know what a great workday looks like. Sorry about audio, I don't notice until after Practice #70.

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So I was sitting at my computer watching YouTube and I was trying to find some like really

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golden tips for like my growth and my future in the YouTube channel.

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Speaking, storytelling, I was just trying to find something amazing.

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And I came across this guy and he was talking about how like this is, he gave like a tip

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or like this strategy that all of the like literally the top dogs in the markets.

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So all the people that are dominating their markets, this is what they do.

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So I should be like listening, right?

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So I started listening, I lean in and he tells me, he's like tells a story, he's saying,

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well he basically, he had a client.

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This guy wanted to know like how to actually make it so he can have a good day every day.

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And then the dude was like, okay, well, what does a good day look like?

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So the client was like, oh, if I get, if I make a lot of phone calls, if I make a lot

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of sales, blah, blah, blah.

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And then the guy was like, whoa, that doesn't tell me anything.

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Put a number to each of those things.

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So the guy was like, okay, if I make 500 phone calls, 200 sales, this amount of work done,

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like that was the numbers.

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So basically that's a good day for him.

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Like that's a great day for him.

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And then he went through and wrote down like all the numbers for a bad day, a good day,

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and a great day.

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And so I'm just like, oh, whatever, because I just got done with like three great amazing

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days in a row where I like recorded very good.

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I'm getting better at my recording.

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I'm learning a lot of skills like three great days in a row.

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So I'm just like, I don't need this stuff.

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I'm a man.

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I got three great days in a row and I'm going to get a great one in the next day.

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So I finish watching the video and I'm just like, okay, whatever.

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I don't take any action because I'm too good for that.

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I don't need that.

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So the next day rolls around and it was not a good day.

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Like I got probably half of the amount of stuff done that day than I did the day before.

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Even though I still like recorded, I still practice and all this stuff, which in, if

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you would have asked me, if I would have had that day like maybe six months ago, I would

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have been like, yeah, that was a great day.

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But nowadays, no, that's not a good day.

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So I'm like, what's, like, I feel like I'm like wandering.

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I'm like, well, how do I even know how to get a good day?

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And so I'm just like, but I don't put like words to it.

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I'm just like, I had a bad day.

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And I just kind of acted like it was out of my control.

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Like I didn't really, it wasn't really my fault.

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Like I don't really know how to have a good day consistently.

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And so I just went on with my day and I was like, that was a bad day.

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Like, come on, I got to do better.

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So the next day rolls down and have another bad day.

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Like I still get a decent amount of work done, but it's just not as much as the three days

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in a row that I did before.

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So I'm like, come on, like why?

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I feel like I'm wandering now again.

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Like now I'm not going to be making as much progress as I, as I should be.

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And now it's going to take a lot longer to achieve my goals if I even achieve them at

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this rate.

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And then it wasn't until during my like nighttime, pondering session where I literally just like

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sit in my room and stare at a wall for like 30 to 40 minutes every day that this thought

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popped up in my head.

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I'm like, define your perfect day.

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That thought literally just appeared in my mind.

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And I was like, boom, boom.

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Like my heart just pumped and I was like, that's it.

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And I remembered that video.

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I was like, okay, in the morning I'm going to define my perfect day.

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And then I sat there for like five more minutes and I was like, no, screw that.

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That's procrastination.

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And so I took out my notebook right then and there and I was like, here's my perfect day.

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And I literally wrote down every single thing.

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Like I have numbers backing it.

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And that was last night.

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So I have my perfect day right now.

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So now I'm way more clear on what a good day looks like.

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So that means going into the day.

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I can expect that that's the standard.

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Like that is what I'm going to be doing that day.

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It's a big game changer because now I'm like, okay, well, now I got to do this much.

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Like my every day for the past couple of months, I've been literally writing squares, like check

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marks kind of to do list.

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I don't know if you can see it very well, but I basically like draw squares and then

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on the thing, the like what it's called.

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And then once I'm done, I check it off.

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So it's like a to do list.

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And I usually do that like the night before or the morning when I first start.

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And like that's good.

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But if I don't know what a perfect day is, I can't really tell if this is enough work

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for the day.

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And then by the time I'm done like working and I close my computer, I'm like already

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done.

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So I, I just like, I got like the next thing on my routine to do, which is like learning

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about how to actually get better at this, which is really important too.

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So it's like to find your perfect day.

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But before you can even do that, you have to figure out like, what's the one skill that

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you have to actually build?

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So for me, the one skill that I have to actually build is being great on camera.

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And that has a lot of sub skills.

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So it's like your influence, your storytelling, your like the way you speak personality, like

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what you're saying, everything, like that has a lot of different sub tiers.

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But like the one skill is you go down camera.

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Like the, the, my, you've heard of the 80, 20 principle where 20% of your actions cause

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the most results, 80% of the results.

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So my like most important task that's going to cause 80% of my results and 80% of my increase

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on skills is this, literally just practicing my recording.

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Like sitting in my basement practicing.

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So this is exactly what like the main bulk of my day's work should be because that's

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what is the differentiator between me and someone who's successful at YouTube.

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They are just better on camera.

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So I'm sitting there at night, I'm like, okay, well, I know, I know what I gotta do to go

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down camera, so I know what needs to be done to get good at camera.

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So you just got to practice.

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So when I'm going through the first box of the most important thing per day is literally

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have an intentional practice.

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And I put a number to it, five episodes or five recordings, literally just record five

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times intentionally and have an idea of what you're going to like work on before you even

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start.

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So like literally just I have right here written down on my journal, all of the different things

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for a YouTuber.

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So it's your story, your personality and the way you speak.

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That's like the basic three things.

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And then under it, there's different things.

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So there's in the way of you speak, there's rate of speech, volume, melody, tonality and

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pause.

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So that's something I'm working on right now is the way you speak because it's really

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important.

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There's this guy, Vin Gang, I don't know if I pronounced his last name right, but this

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guy's a beast.

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Look him up on YouTube and study him because he is an excellent speaker.

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I saw a couple videos of him a couple, like maybe a year ago, I didn't really think much

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of him, just like one or two like shorts or TikToks or whatever.

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So I recognize him, but when he came up on my feed recently, I was actually looking for

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these tips.

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And this guy's a beast, he's got lots of important things.

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And I learned about all of these five different things on the way you speak from him.

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And I also learned about vocal training, literally like training your vocal cords from him.

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So look into that guy, he's really good.