 What is going on, everybody? Happy Saturday morning. I guess it's the 18th of, yes, September. It is 10 o'clock in bright and sunny Austin area, Texas. Where I say Austin area, I'm not exactly in Austin. I'm kind of north of Austin. But I want to welcome everybody. This is the big day. This is the big day we all have been waiting for for the past five days. I've been teaching you guys how to start a YouTube channel and make money on it. And today's gonna be the decision maker. Today's gonna be the day that if you can get through what I'm gonna tell you today, you're gonna be successful. So stick with me today. I've got some great information. I've got all the reasons why you won't succeed today. I've got all the reasons how you can succeed today. So you're gonna want to stick with me. If you're new to this channel, hey, do me a favor and subscribe. Hit that subscribe button down there. Don't forget to turn it from red to gray. Super important that you do that. 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I gotta take care of my boy. He's a, how old is Patrick now? He's 27 years old. So, you know, he's a grown man, but he's still my boy. So keep him in your prayers. So let's get on today with this YouTube thing. And I wanna go through a whole list of things I've done. Paul says, lunch looked awesome. He'll say, Paul, that was one of the best sushi bars I've ever been to. They had all kinds of special sauces to go with stuff. It was amazing. It was really good. Paul says prayers for your son, prayer sent. Thank you so much. I do appreciate that. He's like my best buddy, best friend, love my boy. So yeah, we're hoping the best for him that he doesn't have to go through this operation that they're saying he may have to do. So hopefully he's gonna be okay. So let's get on with our YouTube stuff because I promise you guys I will show up and that's what I will do. And I wanna talk about, put some notes here and I wanna pull up my notes here so I don't get lost. But I wanna talk about some of the things that will kill you as far as your success on YouTube if you go about it wrong. Now, I will tell you this. Number one, you will not make money fast, okay? Now a lot of you guys wanna make money fast. You're like, I have to make money in 30 days. I gotta make money in 90 days. If that's the case, then YouTube is not gonna be for you. However, if you wanna make money that's sustained money, in other words, it's not like you sell 10 items and you gotta find 10 more items to sell. When you get a video on YouTube or you get a number of videos on YouTube and you start generating money, it's continuous. It keeps going. However, a lot of people fail because they wanna make money fast. They're like, I want this fast buck. YouTube is not a fast buck platform. It has never been a fast buck platform. Now I'm gonna have somebody say to me, well, JR, I know somebody who made money their first week or I know they had a viral video made 10 somebody, you may know somebody like that. You may know somebody like that. But for the most part, it's long-term because to even get monetized, you've gotta have 1,000 subscribers. So imagine this, you do a video and it goes viral and it gets 10 million views. You still can't be monetized because you have to have 1,000 subscribers. That takes time. In addition to that, you have to have 4,000 hours of watch time over the previous 12 months. It's a long-term proposition. So if you're thinking, well, I'm just gonna make money real quick, YouTube's not the platform for you. And I think I started off the week telling you that. Also, a lot of people don't succeed because they don't see the big picture. YouTube is a long-term thing. YouTube is something that you build and you build and you build. And maybe a year down the road, maybe five years, maybe 10 years down the road, you have an incredible income. So it's something that you have to build on. It's not for a quick fix. Now, some people will say, well, I don't have a year. I don't have five years. I don't have 10 years. And I answer those people with why are you gonna die? I mean, what's gonna happen? Because the fact is, if you're alive five or 10 years from now and you don't do this, then you just missed out on that opportunity. You know, why would you do that? Why would you miss that opportunity? Time's gonna pass no matter what you do. I think a lot of people have a hard time getting that in their brain. They're like, well, I don't have four years to go to college or I don't have two years to get this degree. Time's gonna pass anyhow. You might as well do something, okay? Now, if you think about it in that way, okay? Then you're gonna do really, really well. Let's say you're a tax accountant and you make YouTube videos to help people understand taxes better. Now you can offer your tax services to people. So you kind of have to think of it in a big picture way. Like I make videos on how to make money online. And the big picture thing is I have affiliate links. I have courses, people join my memberships. And that's where I make my money. It's not just putting a video up on YouTube. It's them seeing that I have a channel that's worthwhile and wanting more information. Let's see here. Let me look at some of my comments. Any thoughts on if it's worthwhile to do a contest to get traffic? It is. Yeah, it's worthwhile to do a contest to get traffic. It's one of the many things you can do. And some contests do better than others. Maybe your contest is a flop because of what your prize was. Or maybe it's a success because of your audience. There's so many factors that go into that. But yeah, contests work. They have work. They'll always work. So they're a good thing. I watch a cinema notifications here. Okay, I'm cool. Thoughts on running a blog along with a YouTube channel. I do that, but what I do on my blog, it's really a vlog, is I upload the videos that I have on YouTube to my blog. So they're also on my website. But certainly anything you can add to your YouTube is gonna be helpful, anything. Now the next reason why people don't succeed on YouTube is that they're not committed. They don't commit to it. They have a commitment problem, okay? And you'll see it over and over again. You'll see channels that have 50 subscribers or 100 or maybe even a thousand. And then they haven't done any videos in months or weeks. You see it all the time. They're not committed. Guys, you gotta be committed to work hard when things are great and when things are horrible. And I don't know, I think it's easier to work hard when things are horrible because you need something to happen, right? When things are really good and you got a lot of money coming in, yesterday we did about $12,000 in sales overall at just my food company, just the food company. Now that's a slow day. And you say, oh my gosh, I would love to have $12,000. Well, I gotta tell you, I started out as a dishwasher at Victoria Station in Memphis, Tennessee making I think a $1.50 an hour is what I made washing dishes. And then we got a penny a meal for how many meals they serve that night. And we got that in change in these little envelopes and the waiters and waitresses would have to put them in these envelopes. So, some nights we would do 900 meals. Sometimes we would do 1,000 meals. So that was another $9, another $10. And to me, a $1.50 an hour and then an extra 10 bucks at the end of the night that was a lot of money. Now I look at 10, $12,000 a day and I'm like, ah, it's a slow day. I gotta get things going. I gotta get things going. I gotta work a little harder. But the problem I have and the problem I think most people have is once you've reached a level of success and you've seen this in sports, you've seen this in business, your motivation tends to go away. It's the eye of the tiger kind of dies out a little bit because you're comfortable. Getting comfortable is the biggest deterrent to being more successful because once you're comfortable you don't have to work as hard. So I forced myself to work really, really hard even though I'm comfortable now, even though my bills are paid, even though I don't have any credit card debt or anything like that, I forced myself to work hard. It's harder to force yourself to work hard when you don't have to. It's harder to do that. But if you can do that you will become better and better and better. Okay, now you gotta ask yourself do you drop most things you start and why do you drop the things you start? Do you have a commitment problem? Are you that type of person that just starts all these different things and never finishes anything? And let me check some of my comments here. Let's see here. It still gets down to having a quality product to sell along the way. By the way, I'm grateful for your affiliate links because you used everything there. Yes, I do use everything. I don't promote anything I don't use guys. Most people give up after less than 50 videos. Same problem in podcasting venues. Yes, I did an interview for a guy and he had a lot of experience. I mean, a ton of experience, really great digital marketer and all that. And he was putting together a podcast and he asked me if I'd be interviewed and it was gonna go live in about three or four months but he was getting together all these interviews. So I certainly did. I spent an hour and a half with him. Within a month and a half he went and took a job somewhere and he just canned all those interviews. It's like, yeah, why would you do that? I mean, even if you get a job you could still run your podcast but he had that commitment problem. He had that commitment problem. The next thing I think that kills people on YouTube is they don't know their audience. Who is your audience? Your audience is your best friend but you gotta take care of them. You gotta give them the commitment, the time, the effort, the good information that's gonna help them. Because if you're not helping your audience they're gonna go away. They're leaving you, okay? And you have to understand your audience because it's like your best friend. Eventually you can sell them a product or service but as you guys know, I don't sell you hardly anything. If you're talking to photographers you need to use the language that photographers understand. I'm talking to people who wanna make money online. So if you're speaking to people who wanna save a little bit of money on grocery shopping then you're catering towards people who are trying to save money for either their emergency fund or build a nest egg or whatever it is. And speaking of groceries, I saw an article today there was a woman who was arrested in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I think she was convicted in North Virginia and I'm from that area for a coupon scam where she was duplicating coupons and selling them on sites. And she ripped off these companies for $31 million in coupons. Amazing. I think she got 12 years in jail. $31 million, that's pretty amazing. So when many people start the YouTube channel they do little this and that. They don't really have it focused. They're not bad for experimentation but it's not gonna get you honed in and focused on your target audience until you start catering towards a particular niche. Now, the next thing is, do you have any skills? Do you have any skills? Do you have skills to start a YouTube channel? Beyond filming videos, you need to understand keywords. You need to understand basic designs, working with people, that type of thing. But I know a lot of people use this for an excuse. They go, well, JR, yeah, I don't understand that stuff so I can't be successful on YouTube. No, not true, not true. Because think of it this way, nobody who starts YouTube knows this stuff until they start YouTube. All of these things you can learn. You can learn keywords, you can learn the basic design. You can learn making thumbnails, you can learn working with people. You can learn anything you wanna learn. And nowadays, pretty much, you can learn anything you wanna learn for free, okay? I mean, you go to YouTube and punch in whatever subject you want, you're probably gonna learn it for free. There's no excuse for lack of knowledge. I hear it all the time, well, I would do that but I just don't know how to do this or I don't know how to do that or I don't understand this. Type it in Google. The answer to everything is I'm on Google right now. Now I'm really excited to see Jessica's pet product launch. Yes, we are working on that right now as a matter of fact. Did you find that there's a sweet spot for dropping video still blown away by your audience demographics? Yeah, we have a very young audience demographics. It's 18 to 24. And I know most of the people on my live are probably older than 24 but that's my demographics and the majority of them go from that 24 up to 35. So I have a very young audience and I don't know why but I just do. Let's see here. Think about it this way guys. If you don't have the skill set, can you get the skill set? You need to be able to have a growth on your channel. There are some big things, the big things and key factors that you need to take into account and start a YouTube channel. If you don't have these things, these things I just talked about then you're not gonna do as well. Now let me grab some of my other notes here. So let's talk about some more reasons why people aren't successful on YouTube. YouTube is a platform where thousands of people want to work and earn a lot of money by sending their videos and thoughts. And of course, they want it done right. The truth is it doesn't work out for everybody. Some people work so hard, they put in a lot of effort and they don't know what to do. They don't do the right things because they just don't make it. Now I know no one wants to be that person right. So in the beginning, I was a failed YouTuber, okay? I tried YouTube for several years, I didn't do well at it. And then one day I woke up and I said, well, maybe I'm doing stuff wrong. Maybe I need to learn stuff. Maybe I'm not putting forth the effort I need to put in. And when I started doing that, my channel started growing. Now some of you may say, well, JR, your channel is not as big as this guy's or it's not as big as this guy's. I know that. But you know what? At one point, their channel was smaller than mine. Everybody starts small on YouTube. You've got to just get it in your head that if you keep doing this, you keep getting better at it, you're gonna do fine. You've got to understand that. First problem I see a lot of people do is making bad content. Okay, if you make bad content, people aren't gonna want to watch it. Okay, this is just basic 101. Their videos really suck. And they don't know what the viewers really want to watch. The reason behind this content video is because they put up videos that they themselves think is amazing because they are making videos for themselves. That's not the idea of YouTube. The idea of YouTube is you're making videos for other people for what they want. They fail at creating content because they don't put 100% effort into making amazing videos, which is exactly what I did in the beginning. If you look back to 2015 when I did videos, they were crap. They weren't good. They didn't serve my audience. I'm not the same person on cameras. I was in 2015, although I'm the same person. I had to figure out what YouTube meant, what it does for people, how to help people. And if I did that, then everything would work out. Now, if you guys are concerned that today I'm not giving you the technical stuff, you can go through the Monday through Friday videos this previous week. And today's the 18th. So I guess that started on the, let's see, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th. Yeah, start on the 13th and go through all my live videos for the week. And it has all the technical stuff. Do that after this one here, okay? So good videos are really important factors in having a successful YouTube channel. In order to pull off a successful channel, you gotta be a good content creator. And if you wanna know how to be a good content creator, watch the videos that you really like. Watch the videos of a channel that has a lot of subscribers, that gets a lot of comments, that has a lot of people watching them. It's that easy to figure it out. Let's see, I currently use a high school kid for our editing cost is cheap and I win-win for both of us. Do what you do best and outsource the rest. Yes, and I'd love to see some of your videos. I haven't seen any, Paul, so I'll post those somewhere. I don't know if you haven't won a channel or anything yet, I'd like to check them out. The next problem I see with people on YouTube is they upload all these random videos, okay? Uploading random videos is not gonna get you anywhere. Okay, every now and then you'll have a hit. For the most part, you won't. People won't know why to come to your channel. They gotta know why you're there. Let's say you're a singer or you're an actor, you're a painter, you're a designer and so on. What are you actually? If you really want to turn your YouTube channel into something long-term, something like an actual asset, then you need to look at yourself as somebody who can do something. What is it you can do? Who has a talent that the world would love to see? My talent is a really simple talent. My talent is I make money online. I know how to market stuff. It doesn't even matter what the product is anymore. And I woke up about three years ago and I was like, I can sell anything. That's my talent. I can sell anything. It's not the product. It's not any of that stuff. It's being able to market a product. It's being able to design these sales funnels and these emails and these ads and all that. That was my talent. So I said, well, that's what I need to teach people. I need to teach people how to market stuff online because if I can impart that talent to them and they can learn that, they'll be successful no matter what their product is. And the next thing I see is lack of patience. If you don't have patience, you will not succeed. Patience is necessary for when things aren't going well. Patience is so much more important to achieve something. So that's my, I guess the next reason is if you don't have patience guys, you can't succeed in life. You've got to have patience. You've got to be able to suck it up when things aren't wonderful. After working and uploading videos on YouTube for days and sometimes months and not getting the views that you want, many people will just stop. They stop. So many people fail on YouTube because they wanna have their channel grow within no time. It's not gonna happen. There are hundreds of YouTubers who have worked so hard for years to grow their channels. It's not easy to build a successful channel with no time. Time is a necessary factor. And within that time, you need effort. Everything takes time to do or to achieve everything. So there's a saying that you gotta put in your 10,000 hours to become an expert at anything. And I really believe that. And if I think about how many videos I put up and how many I put up, I put up over 1,000 videos. I haven't looked at the number lately, but I know it's over 1,000 videos. And if you take 1,000 and let's say, and some of these are half hour videos, some of these are 10 minute videos, but if we do, let's do some quick math here guys. 1,000 and we're gonna say times 15 minutes. That's 15,000 and that's divided by 60. Well, that's only 250 hours. That's only 250 hours you gotta put in your 10,000 hours. So I gotta triple that to really get to where I wanna be. Be willing to do that, okay? This is one of the main reasons so many people give up on YouTube. A lot of people give up on their first channel and then create a second channel. And they blame the channel. It wasn't the channel, it was they quit too soon. After the second channel, they create a third channel. That's why they don't get success on YouTube. People need to stick to one channel and have patience and work on that channel and make that channel better and better and better. And I even see people who had really big channels start another channel and then they can it. I watched Dane Drops. He has a great channel. He has millions of followers. He started one on exercise. Dane is a big guy. He's out of shape. That exercise, one lasted a few videos and then he never posted again. Kwan Tran, I watch him. He has a cooking one. He talks all about food and he started, once again, an exercise, one where he was gonna exercise. And guess what? That lasted a few videos and he quit. Even successful YouTubers will do this, okay? Did Joe Girard never offer you any car sales tips? I'm very well aware of Joe Girard because I was a automotive sales trainer too. Joe Girard was more popular in the 60s and 70s. And he would do some kind of crazy things. A lot of people actually surpass Joe Girard in sales because he used really basic stuff. Like he would go to a baseball game, for example, and he would have 200 business cards and he would throw them in the air and hope that some people would grab those business cards and come buy a car from him. And he worked real hard and he did a lot of follow-up. Basically, Joe Girard, he asked for referrals. He just did all the basics when nobody else was doing the basics. But other people came along after him and really sold a lot more cars. I did some training and not to get off track, but for about nine years on the road, I used to manage the number one Chrysler dealership, State of California, number three in the nation. And I went in there and I trained some of the top salespeople, all six-finger salespeople. And then I took that show on the road per se and trained a lot of dealerships around the country. And we had different techniques that really worked well that didn't involve throwing your business cards in the air. Not that he wasn't a great salesman, he certainly was. But we figured out other ways of doing that. And that's how YouTube is too. You gotta figure out other ways of doing this stuff because what worked for somebody in 2014 or 2009 is definitely different now. Now, I want you to think about this. You guys are watching this this week and some of you have been here all week long. Some of you are new to this channel, but this applies to everybody, okay? I know you've got great ideas in your head. You've got great ideas. And I know you thought to yourself recently, I really need to make a change. And yet you've done nothing about it. So let's examine that a little bit. I like how you batch your videos and dole them out. You definitely learn to be super productive and have discipline in both your businesses. Well, thank you, Paul. That's just basically hard work. I mean, I wanna tell somebody I've got some secret. I don't. It's hard work. And I still have not achieved what I wanted. And there's still a lot of people that are way far ahead of me. And there's some people behind me. And I don't really care. I'm me, okay? I'm me. I'm gonna do what I do. So you people who are not acting on your, you people. That's terrible, right? You who are not acting on your ideas, okay? You go through the moves. You're convincing yourself that life isn't so bad. At least you're getting a paycheck and you're getting paid. And that's what's dangerous. If you're too comfortable, that's what's dangerous. That's what's keeping you from trying new things. The problem is deep down inside, you just know getting paid is not enough. You know that just paying your bills and not being homeless is not enough. You know that life is about more than not starving. It's about truly living. You see other people doing it. You see me maybe traveling, going out to lunch on Fridays and living a really good lifestyle, okay? Better than I ever thought I would. I was a dishwasher at Victoria Station when I was 15. That's where I started, okay? That's where I was. And actually I worked in a body shop before that when I was 14 knocking out dims. That's where I started. It's irrelevant where you are. Quit thinking about where you are right now. It doesn't matter where you are. It matters the direction that you're going. It's about setting your sights on something you want so badly and stopping at nothing to get it. It's about canceling your TV shows. It's about canceling hanging out with your friends. It's about canceling happy hour. It's about canceling all that stuff. Then you can be successful on YouTube or anything that you want. And yet despite this knowledge, you're still allowing your dreams to slip out of your reach. Now why are you doing that? Why is this? Passion is not enough. The definition of insanity, as we all say, is doing the same thing over and over again and then expecting different results. Creatives must be a little insane. If you think about it, all these really creative, wealthy people, you always think, man, they're weird. They're a little weird. And they're a little weird because they do things other people wouldn't do. Day in and day out, they go about their routine telling themselves that they'll eventually make time to do something. This is what the average person does. But they never do anything. Days turn into weeks. Weeks turn into months. And months turn into years. Until one day you wake up and you realize you're not any closer to where you want to be than you were in the beginning. And then it becomes too late. Now, I will tell you today it's not too late. I don't care how old you are. I don't care how young you are. And I used to use the excuse when I was young, well, I'm too young. That guy's so much older than me so he can do so much more. Age has nothing to do with it on the internet. You know, I knew people, you know, that are 12 that make money online. We have a viewer that's in here every now and then. Karim, I think it's Karim from Pakistan. And he is 12 and he's making money online. 12 years old. So if you're 75 or 80, you can make money online. It doesn't matter. As harsh as I sound right now, I'm really on your side. I know you've got the passion and spark to challenge the world. I believe in you. I believe, I really do. I believe you could do it. But having this passion is like having gasoline without a car. It's not gonna get you anywhere. If you're frightened by the idea of living a mediocre life, then you have to execute on your ideas guys or you're gonna live a mediocre life. Everybody can coast through life. You know, if you live in the United States and I know a lot of you watching this, a lot of my audience is in India. The big portion of my audience, almost half of it is in India. But let's say you're in the group of the US. You could just coast in the US and get through life if that's what you wanna do. What a shame. What a shame if you are born and raised in the US and you're 40 and broke and living in America. What a shame. I mean, people aren't jumping in the ocean trying to swim to Poland or trying to get to Mexico. They're trying to get to the US. And if you live here in the US, you can do it. Now if you live in another country, you can still do it. But the people in the US have got no excuse. You know, you've got to look at them and go, what's wrong with these people? It's not laziness that's keeping you from your dreams. It's a bigger thing. It's fear. Fear is the brethren of passion. Fear is the reason your ideas disappear into ether quickly as they came into your brain. Because taking action on them means putting yourself on the line, taking risks. I mean, the very real possibility of trying something and falling on your face is real. However, on YouTube it really isn't. Because if you keep going, if you just keep going, you will build an audience. I know this for a fact. I know this for a fact. My audience is building. I have more people show up every single day. I have more people comment every day. I make more money every day. When I first started doing videos, I didn't have anything figured out. You know, nobody was listening to me in the beginning. Nobody wanted to hear what I had to say. But I told myself, eventually, I would have an audience. I had to get good at what I did. Okay, I had to really impart good knowledge. I had to help people out. So that's what I started doing. And then the audience started building. And then the money started coming in. And that was true with my food company too. I had to know what to do with the food company. In the beginning, I didn't do well. I didn't do well at all. And now it does millions of dollars in sales. In the beginning, you're not gonna do things right. Perfectly, you're just not, okay? But guess what? That's okay. Realizing this fact kind of relieves you from that cognitive dissonance, okay? It makes working on your art a heck of a lot more fun. Okay, when you realize it's okay if you don't do everything perfect. The danger of being a follower. Keep in mind that if you're following on social media, their work, their posts, their sayings all influence you. Wouldn't you rather influence other people? Wouldn't you rather be the influencer? You know, when you're taking pictures and doing videos and all that stuff and you're posting them every day, it's a lot more fulfilling than watching other people do that. When you do videos on YouTube and you put it out there and somebody comments and somebody likes it, that's a lot more fulfilling than watching a YouTube video. And I know I like to watch YouTube videos and I feel good but I'm doing it because I watch what I want. But it's a lot more fulfilling to have my videos watched. It really is. Let me check out some of your comments here. I like to tell you work on your business and still got in your workouts on that cruise. Yes, and I'm dressed today for the gym and I'm dressed today for the gym, not to impress you guys, but it makes me remind myself. I look down, I go, I got gym shorts on and a gym shirt. I think I'm supposed to go to the gym. So it reminds me to do the stuff I'm supposed to do. Okay, information overload is a real thing. It's possible to watch too much of these motivational videos on YouTube. It's possible to watch too much educational videos. Now I don't think it's possible for you to watch too many of my videos. No, no, that's not possible. But here's what I want you to do today. I want you to make a commitment. Let's see, I find that many creatives are great at ideas but horrible in sales and marketing. The thing I take is action over revise later. That's very true. That's very, very true. Now, how long have you wanted to do a YouTube channel? Ask yourself that question or a podcast or you can apply this to whatever you want. It's time to do it. It's finally time to do it. You don't have to know exactly what you're doing. I want to relieve you of that. You don't have to know exactly what you're doing. You don't even have to know how to do it to make a living. You don't have to know how to do it to get paid to do it. You just need to do it. If I can convince one or two of you or 10 of you or 1,000 of you to do this, I'm gonna feel good because I know that you will succeed and when you do succeed, you're gonna go, man, why didn't I start this so much sooner? I look at myself and I go, why didn't I start YouTube in 2005 instead of starting it in 2015? But I don't kick myself for that. I just go, my God, it's a whole lot better than I thought and you will too. You don't have to know all this stuff to get started. You just gotta get started. Make time. Set up time to write, to paint, to sing, to dance, whatever you wanna do, to make videos for YouTube. If your ideas mean that much to you, you will prioritize them over everything else. That's what you need to do. Every day you wake up, you have the ability to choose. Every day you wake up, you will bring yourself closer to your goal or you will just have another repeat version of yesterday. It'll be Groundhog Day, same day over and over and over again. I'm currently working on a book. I'm currently working on a couple classes. I'm currently working on a webinar. And I know that as I work on those things, every day I'm currently working on fixing a couple of my sites and all these other stuff too. But I know as I work on those things, life gets better. Life gets better because I'm creating. You need to create more than you consume. Create more than you consume. It's not gonna be perfect. You might fail. I will fail. I know at certain things. And the more reason to share your process with the world and as you're doing this, share with people the process you're going through. I was talking to Tayan the other day when she was saying, well, I'm thinking about actually posting my process. I said, that's an excellent idea. People love to see that. Let's see here. There's Tayan right there. Paul, marketing is something I love learning more about. The other thing I noticed is you are a student of your craft and are always learning candy. All right, he's got an acronym. What is this candy? Constant and never ending daily improvement. 100%. You gotta do that. And I know a lot of people fear away from it though. Oh, I hate competition. I hate competition. And the reason they hate competition is it bothers them if somebody beats them. Well, let me just kind of work something out here for you. You're always gonna have somebody that's beating you. You're always gonna have somebody that beats you. Even if you're at the top of your game, you're Mike Tyson. Somebody beat him, okay? You're always gonna get beat at some point. It's not the point to be better than everybody else. It's the point to be in the race. That's what you wanna do. You wanna be in the race. You don't wanna be in the stands. You don't wanna be watching the race. Watching the race is fun. It's fun. But it's not as fun as being in the game. I see somebody, I don't watch any sports on TV. I can't do it. I would rather be in the sport than to watch the sport. I will watch some boxing because I used to do some kickboxing and Taekwondo and all that, so I enjoy that. But for the most part, being in the game is a lot better than watching the game. I think it's so funny when these men sit on a couch and they drink beer or they eat potato chips and they're way out of shape and they're yelling at the people on the TV screen about how bad of a job they're doing. I'm like, you get out there and you do it and see how easy that is. At least they're competing, okay? At least they're competing. Competing in life is important. The reason most of us don't do it is because we're afraid somebody will beat us. Just get that out of your head. Just be in the competition, be part of the game, be part of it. This is day six of six days of teaching you YouTube and this is the day where I hope to wake you up that all that knowledge I gave you Monday through Friday, you need to apply it. Right now, today, take time today. Do your banner for your YouTube channel. Come up with a name for your YouTube channel. Come up with 10 ideas for videos. Write some scripts. Do something. This is the one thing I had the hardest time with people is they don't do anything. They have a myriad of reasons for it and understand guys, it's not because you don't have enough time, don't ever use that again. You allocate your own time every single day. Don't tell me I don't understand. I was a single dad, I raised two kids. I worked 65, 70 hours a week running car dealerships and I started my business on the side and I was on the rescue squad in the city of Virginia Beach doing, I was an EMT and I was helping people out on an ambulance. So don't tell me you don't have enough time and I'm not saying I'm great or anything like that. There's plenty of people like me. I mean, if you look at any president in the history of the United States, they're pretty darn busy and for the most part, all of them had an exercise program. They all worked out. So if you say I don't have time to work out, I don't have time for this YouTube channel, they're just excuses. Nobody believes you. Nobody believes you when you come up with excuses guys. Nobody believes your excuses but you and you will believe them because you made them up. You made them up. If you're out of shape, if you're broke, if you don't have the money you want, you're not living where you want, you're not driving the car you want, you're not wearing the clothes you want, it's you. Look in the mirror. David Goggins talks about the mirror of accountability. You look at the mirror every day, you're looking at the problem and you're also looking at the solution. Are you the solution? 100%. Are you the problem? 100%. It's not what happens to you in life. It's how you react to what happens to you in life and it's how you prepare for life. If you're prepared, things are gonna work out. I've been a speaker for many years and I've done a lot of training and sales training and I get contacted by people now because they know I'm prepared. They go, well, we can hire JR because he's prepared, he's done this stuff. If I have them prepared, they're not gonna contact me, they're not gonna wanna pay me, they're not gonna want me to be part of their mastermind or whatever because I wasn't prepared but if I was prepared, guess what? That's how I get there. It's like my screen just died out. Let me get my screen here back real quick. There we go, okay, so I got my screen back and let me get on my other screen here and I want you guys to put your comments in there. Has this resonated with you today? Have you thought about this a little bit? Why you're doing what you're doing? Why you're not doing what you're not doing? Excuses are the thief of success, Paul says. You need the realization that there's always room for anyone wanting to make a living. If you don't build your dreams, somebody else hires you to build theirs. 100% true. What software do you utilize for webinars, for developing courses? I use Cartra to market everything and I use EverWebinar and Webinar Jam and they're made by the same company which is Genesis Digital, so they mesh together and they work perfectly. That's why I love them. I learned don't wait around waiting on other people's excuses, take your business elsewhere. Very, very true. And guys, I want everybody to put a comment in there. If you're watching this right now and I know there's double digit people watching, put a comment in there. That will be your first step to getting involved. If you can't get involved in a live video, if you can't at least say hello, if you can't ask a question, if you can't share an idea, your odds of being successful after this video are not very good. And I'm just gonna be upfront with you. You need to participate. This is the first step. If you participate in this video, if you put a comment there now, if you put a suggestion there now, if you tell me what the weather is in your town, you are actually putting forth the effort you need to to success and be successful on YouTube, on any business or in life, but you must, you must, you must participate. Put a comment in there. Say hello to me. Tell me what you got out of this today. Tell me what you didn't get out of it. Tell me what you want, but tell me something. Let me know that you exist. Don't hide in the shadows of the internet. Don't hide. Make yourself part of this conversation today. Put something in there. Now I'm about to end this training and you have an opportunity to put something in this chat box. Now, if you're not watching this live, James Breen says peace and blessings always everyone. Thank you, James. If you're not watching this live, you can still participate. You can still put it in the comment section below. I'll still answer you. I'll still come back and talk to you. Don't use the excuse while I wasn't live so I couldn't talk to JR. Yeah, I wish I had been, but I didn't because I wasn't there. Let's see here. I've got more comments. Paul's working hard. Work hard like Paul. He says subscribe and ring the bell. Yes, don't forget to subscribe and ring the bell, turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I upload a video or I go live. That's very, very important that you do that. And some of you have participated now. Some of you have taken that step. Will the rest of you take that step? I hope so. I really do. I want to help you. I want to give you what you need. I want to motivate you if I can. I don't know how to motivate some of you. I really don't. Don't get how to motivate some of you. Some of you will get motivated and that's awesome. That's awesome. I love that. Some of you out there need to start with yourself. Quit waiting. Some people say, well, if somebody would come along and motivate me, I'd do really well. Well, what if they don't show up? Are you going to depend on them? Are you going to depend on them for the rest of your life? You're going to say, well, hey, I'm not successful because nobody came and motivated me. Freaking motivate yourself. Motivate yourself. Do what it takes to make something happen. Now is the time. Today is the day. You have a chance today. You don't know what tomorrow holds. You don't know what tomorrow holds. It could be a horrible death or it could just be another waste of day. But if you start something today, if you do something today, you can determine what tomorrow holds. Don't you want to be in control? Or do you just want to kind of flow through life, let things bump into you and you just go the direction they push you? Don't let it happen, guys. Don't let that happen. And I really appreciate you being here today. I appreciate all of you who actually participated, who put something in this comment section. Paul, you have worked very hard. Tyain, great to see you. Let's see here. James Breen, of course, you're always there for me, buddy. I appreciate that. I will be live again next week and working very hard for you. I can promise you that to, and I try every week to go out and find new things to share with you guys that are working for me. And when I say find new things, I find them, I test them, I make sure they're successful and once they are, then I hand them to you. I don't just go out and go, hey, I heard about this, you ought to try it. Unless I've tested it out, I don't share it with you guys. We've had a good turnout today. I really appreciate it. I assume we'll have some viewers after this video too and we'll get some good views over that. Don't forget to subscribe. Give me a thumbs up. 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