 Hey Tri, so there is this interesting story, I believe it's interesting, that for quite a few years now, and it's been a while since I did this, and I only started doing this again recently, but years ago I decided to make a vision board. And probably most of you know what's a vision board, it's like putting up pictures of stuff you want to achieve or have in your life, and then that kind of turns on your subconsciousness to focus on those things more or just kind of prioritize things better. And usually I'm a bit skeptical about the wishy washy, the secret stuff, but I tried it out once and it was quite successful. I also had some twists, added some twists to it, which made it more effective, more meaningful, and more practical for me, which I will share with you in a moment what made it so. But I also put it up on my desktop, on my laptop, which I use a lot because my work is on YouTube, so I always, every day I turn on my laptop and I see it. And so I see that picture and I always have a chance to look and okay am I walking this way, am I doing this? And sometimes I would forget, like if you see the same image over and over again you kind of become numb to it. But it was interesting is that in the past I would start up at the beginning of the year and I would set up for a year, and at the end of the year I would look at it and I would realize holy crap, I did most of the things, like 90% of the things, and some of them I did, even without kind of trying, I didn't do it because I wanted to kind of, you know, make it happen because they made the picture a vision board, but it just kind of went that way. So I believe I'm not trying to mystify this or whatever, although I do believe that the subconscious just scientifically is a powerful tool, intuition is a powerful tool, prioritizing is a powerful tool. But just in general I feel like there's some benefit to having that vision board, to seeing it, that kind of helps you keep more focused. And that's the reason I did it a few times, always worked out well. And again, not to say that it's some magic stuff, but even just to make it, it's a process which is valuable because it makes you think and makes you rationalize the whole thing. But what is interesting is that if you look at my vision board, the thing is, I have this kind of trick when I do this. So all that space here, because of the space of the laptop, that's only that much space I give to myself to work with, meaning there's a limited amount of space to how much I use. And I realized then, and that kind of helped me do the prioritizing thing, because sometimes it's one of my past issues, which I still have to be conscious of. When we want to do too much or we try to do too much, eventually the more things you try to do, the less chance there is you will achieve any of them. But the more you focus on certain things on the most important stuff, the more energy you give to them, the greater the chance is that you will actually own those challenges. So I wanted to be conscious of that. And when I made my vision board, that's as much space as I get. And the bigger the picture is, the more space it takes means the more it's important. And eventually what's funny is that when you start to work with the vision board on like that, on a laptop, you start to see that you're running out of space. And you realize, oh, crap, I won't be able to fit that in and that in. And then you also question, so how important is this part of my vision board? How important is this image, this symbol, not only what it represents, but how significant it is and what size should I make it? And the bigger you make one, the less space there is for another one. And that's kind of the reality of life. The more you will focus on certain things, the less time you will have for others. And so I find it's just a really cool exercise. And again, I did that for a number of years. And I haven't had one for this year. But since as you might know, I had this big challenge of starting the new project. And there's been a bit of a, there's been a bit of a down low period of me struggling and, and having more resistance than I thought, more bumps in the road, I realized I need to, I need to focus more, I need to kind of crystallize what I'm really about. So I would become more successful, there would be more chance for success. And so I decided it's a good time to make the vision board again, the same way and to see what happens and to put it up on my desktop. And to work with it every day to look at it and to contemplate, okay, is this really it? Like am I really walking this path? And what's really important for me? So aside from highly suggesting and kind of yeah, suggesting it for you to do as well, I will also break down my vision board to share with you what I'm focusing on and how my brain works in case you're interested. But what's also interesting too is I set up this vision board until September. So this is my vision board from, I did it like a month ago. So let's say from March till September, about half a year. And by September, we will community have a chance to look at this again and to read and to kind of double check and ask so was I able to achieve that? Did that happen? You know, that's that's the cool thing about YouTube is it's you kind of you can record stuff and then kind of go into the past and into the future and play with time and see, you know, did that happen or not. So we'll definitely go when the time comes, like end of September, we'll look at the board and we'll have a chance to realize whether it happened or not based on the documentation of YouTube. Spend a bit too much time explaining this one. But let me get a sip of coffee that keeps me energized and speakative talkative. So I wouldn't bore you guys out of your mind. And let's jump into the vision board and start breaking things down. So first of all, okay, let's start with the obvious. Dark Knight Batman this is the picture from the Dark Knight the second part. It takes a lot of space and you might have watched the previous one of the previous videos where I break down one of my desktop images which inspires me so I shared a longer story about why Batman inspires me and I'm playing to make a whole video about it. But just I'll give you a kind of a quick glimpse into what it is just just a quick note. It's the symbol of Batman represents from me and symbolizes complete and utter devotion to your role kind of putting on the tunnel vision, disregarding everything which is not important and just focusing on your purpose focusing on what your mission is, even though matter how much resistance you get, you don't think about that you don't spend time about that all you invest all your time into your purpose. And that's what that represents. And that's because I was having a difficult time recently, I made sure that this image has takes a lot of space so that I I would remember that, you know, I need to be Batman, I need to become the best version myself and fuck everything that that is not going my way, I will still pursue my goal. Then this is an awesome book from John C Maxwell, the best book so far I read about leadership, I highly recommend it. And since it inspired me so and I realized, I always had not always but I think it would be fair to say that I'm a an okay leader, you know, I ran my Aikido school for seven years and that was a big project more than 100 students and I was leader of some groups in the past and also, you know, running the YouTube channel is kind of a leadership thing with my journey. Well, I mean, whatever. But the thing is, I realized leadership is important for my goal that I'm pursuing and achieving. So I made sure that I will put up it's it's pretty big comparably compared to most of stuff. It's only bigger ones. So that it signifies that I need to work on my leadership. I want to I want to work on my leadership skills. Then you see YouTube, which means putting up content on YouTube and getting that the journey YouTube channel and a bit of the martial arts journey as well, to keep going to make content valuable content so that you know, I would develop more as a person and also put out something useful to the world. Then you see this is a representation of community for me. And I want to learn how to develop communities again, I have some experience with it, but but I feel like I could improve so much better at it. I'm still looking forward to read a book about building communities. I read one tribes by self voting. It's just pretty good, but I feel like I lack information, lack knowledge how to build a community. And that's one of the things one of the projects I'm working on is the team of the tribe. I'm trying to build a community there and also YouTube is a community as well. And the new channel, the journey doesn't have a following yet, like a big following it as I'm making this video. So it's all about making a community there online as well. Then I won't spend as much time, by the way, I'm old picture. So don't worry. This video won't take forever. This is me doing the handstand, which means I want to continue working with the two minute rule and kind of developing further various athletic skills. And part of it is because holy shit. I just realized my external microphone, which I use, I use like this mic to have better audio quality wasn't working GoPro camera is okay sound. So I just restarted my microphone, but yeah, I hope it'll be fine. Anyway, let's continue. So the things with skills, part of me I feel and I believe that inherently we all want to become better and we all want to achieve greater skills and greater capabilities. And, you know, we sometimes see these cool things, like somebody is doing a backflip and we're like, Oh, I wish I could do that. And it's just such an empowering thing to be able to do that. And I feel the two minute rule is so good at opening up ways to be able to do it. And I made a video about that, you know, the one where I do the handstand, what I learned to do in two minutes, I think it's called. And also it's inspiring to see others build up to that and achieve that ability. And that's why I want to I want to since one of my main keywords and things that I pursue for is inspiring people. I think that the more I will learn through using the two minute rule, the more skills like awesome feels like the blow everyone's mind, including my own. And I will show that it's not that difficult to do it as long as you maintain a certain commitment and do it every day a little bit. That may be a huge inspiration. So, and it's just healthy just so many good aspects about it. But, but some of those things, some of the reasons why I want to continue on developing athletic skills, like cool stuff, like right now I'm working on standing on the gym ball. And yeah, so that's going to be that's part of my vision board and part of my focus. And this little guy here, it's a bit of a pointer to the future. This is a guy fighting fear. And I will let you know about that more in the future, but I'm going to release a video about pressure testing my fears. And I'm hoping to inspire more people to go to go out of their comfort zones and to embrace and kind of work with their fears. It's a long story, but working with my fears has been a huge practice in my life and just revealed and opened up so many things, so many possibilities. And I'm just so grateful to the fact that there was a natural leaning towards owning my fears. And I've got so much from it, so I'm looking forward to share about that with people more and more. But right now, I just need to prioritize and take things one step at a time. But already there's a hint that I will be bringing that subject up and going to work on it. So let's check if the microphone is recording this time. I don't know why it failed me. It never failed me before. Anyway, it's good. I think the microphone on this camera is like the GoPro is not that bad. All right, let's continue. So this is Veroni Kenshin for those of you who do not know. This is like a semi anime and this is his kind of girlfriend. That also reflects my girlfriend, but looking at Kenshin, he was a huge inspiration for me and my teens. But specifically, he's like a very powerful samurai guy, but he's super humble. Like just like super super humble. He never thinks much of himself. He's all about being humble and all about serving others and being kind and being caring. And it's just the natural quality of him. And that kind of always inspired me to always embrace that and work for that as well. To be powerful, but also to be humble, kind and caring. And I want to make sure I put that in. It takes, I think, a significant amount of space that I would remember always to be kind and humble in my path and to be nice to my girlfriend. And speaking of my girlfriend, this is actually her. She was in one of the videos as well and I made sure she takes plenty of space because I think if you don't devote enough, you couldn't even be bigger. We could argue about that and question how to go. But I think, yeah, I made sure it's big enough because I feel it's important. Sometimes we take relationships for granted. We're thinking like, well, I'll just do my things and the relationship will happen by itself. But that's not my experience. As some of you know, I'm divorced, so I went for a 70-year difficult relationship. I learned a lot of lessons and I thought a lot about what makes a good relationship and I really want to make sure to make this one work. My girlfriend's really amazing, by the way, and I'm very happy and bitter. But still, you know, it's a project. You need to make sure that you invest in it, that you listen to the relationship, you listen to the other side. And it's not like, you shouldn't take it for granted and you shouldn't just let it be there and expect it to happen on its own. It's a thing you need to, it's like a flower. It's like a tree. You need to give specific attention to it in order for it to bloom. So I wanted to make sure that it takes significant space and amount that I would remember that it's not just about my purpose, that the relationship is also very important in my life. Funny story, and I will be honest with you, I made that mistake in the past, but I was making my vision board. My girlfriend is sitting next to me and she said half jokingly because I believe most of the jokes are half true. She said, what about me? Like, where am I? She wasn't complaining, it was just like a joke. She's a funny person, but she's saying like, where am I in the vision board? And I was like, holy crap! I felt so bad about that because I realized I was so focused on my goals that I actually just kind of didn't think about including her in there. And as soon as she said it, it just dawned on me. I realized, holy crap! Of course she has to be there. Just like, there's no question about that. Like, why I was just so much in my kind of Batman tunnel vision that I just didn't, it just didn't cross my mind. And as soon as she said it, I was just like, oh my goodness! I just, I have to put her in. And not because of her, but because it just makes sense. I did it for myself. And yeah, I was a bit embarrassed and I felt a bit guilty just against my, against my own self. I was like, holy crap! Stupid Brocas! But I fixed the mistake and you know, now she's in there, but I just wanted to be honest with you and just share that I kind of slipped there. Anyway, we all slip sometimes. To continue, this is a cool picture which I found by searching for leadership. Eventually this became my leadership sign, but this kind of also means a little bit, represents a little bit of leadership, but also didn't want to exclude this picture because I found it a really cool picture. This guy and he kind of becomes, his shadow becomes like a superhero. And it's no secret that I'm into superheroes, not like an extreme geek. But I love the symbology of superheroes and forgive me, I just wanted to make sure I record good audios for you. Yeah, the audio is still going. So I'm not like a super geek geek, but I think that the symbol of superheroes is a very powerful symbol. And I think part of the reason why the culture of superheroes is so big these days because we all inherently feel a desire to make a difference, to be the best version of ourselves. And I think superheroes are all about that and I think besides the fact that Marvel is making great movies and DC is starting to learn to make them too, but I think that besides them being good movies that's that inherent desire for us to become our greater selves and to serve others. It comes through that when we watch a superhero movie and so I think inherently if you watch like a great movie that I like is Unbreakable, it's about kind of a bit of a more realistic take on potential casual superhero. Long story short, there's an idea they're presented as well that the mythology of superheroes and graphic novels they they're there to remind us that that's part of our life, that that's part of our purpose as well to become greater and to serve others. And actually interesting enough too, I'm reading a book which I'm really enjoying right now. It's called Drive. It's about motivation. I was looking for a book about motivation and that just hit the right spot and it I just started reading it but it's already pointing out through research that it's proven that human beings are in instinctively they want to achieve greatness, they want to become better and they also want to create and to kind of have a purpose and and I think I'm still going for the book but I think also it's pointing out that we inherently want to serve others. And yes some people down the road they fail, they stumble but you know they not everybody goes in perfect conditions and some people are they get the conditions to develop into you know a villain but I don't think most people are inherently villains. I think it's just you know an unfortunate outcome of of the circumstances and if you would give the same person the chance to be a hero he would be. And so that that whole subject really inspires me and when I had that picture there I kind of thought you know I'll just I'll just keep it there and I'll just remind myself not only that I want to develop into a better leader but I'll also keep it there to to remember that I want to you know grow into kind of a superhero guy and not to make it about myself but just that representation of becoming the best person myself and serving others as best as I can to kind of bring that mythology of superheroes of heroes into our world and and to make it more of a realistic thing not about some people were giving me trouble when I announced my news direction and I was a bit vague about it but some people were saying like oh Rokas is about to become like real-life superhero movement that was there where people just would dress up as superheroes and they would go out in the street and you know some some part of it is cool some part of it is a bit weird but I'm not necessarily a fan of that because I'm not I don't think fighting crime by walking the street is the way to go you know there's better ways to do that but what being a superhero for me is about achieving your greatest potential and serving others and and I do want more people to including my own self to commit to that path and to embody that embody the superhero nests into the world and there's a phrase actually I'll show it to you on my laptop um holy crap what's happening with my laptop okay um oh no I'm failing no this is my adobe no I just really wanted to make this cool moment maybe it's gonna happen yes there you go uh my adobe premiere pro was failing me okay so if you go into my um profile I put up this picture while I was living in portland but it's a quote from stanley and I feel it's appropriate for me to keep keeping it on it says that person who helps others simply because it should or must be done and because it is the right thing to do is indeed without a doubt a real superhero and you know that's that's a guy who is partly responsible for bringing superheroes into the into the pop culture into everyone's consciousness and I think it's just a great phrase you know that that part of being a superhero is doing the things just for the sake of it not forgetting a return and and again I want to bring more of that into the world that's part of what the journey is about and that's part of what I will keep on talking about more and more in the future now part of being a youtuber I didn't want to make this video too long but there's just so many important stuff to talk about just part of it being a youtube is checking keep checking your microphone and since I'm starting to do my videos in one take you're part of checking my audio and it's okay right now so uh my computer is lagging right now but let's get back to the vision board so yeah that let's leave that let's leave that there uh this is my doggo I wanted to make sure this is actually a nice picture I wanted to make sure I include him because again like a girlfriend which sounds terrible now but like a girlfriend like a relationship and and I have to thank my girlfriend for part of it she made me more conscious of that but your your dog is a part of your family member as well and you shouldn't take him for granted as well he's not just there to live his life he you're there to live life your life together and you need to also invest energy into him and consciously spend more time with him take the walks and and educate him it's a it's a responsibility a wonderful responsibility but also you shouldn't just be like oh there's the dog and whatever do your thing but but but you have to engage in it's your responsibility to do it and that's one of the reasons why he's there foam rolling as some of you know I do some grouping I do foam rolling and listening to audio books or reading books or watching Netflix these days I'm more about books but that being said I want to do some more foam rolling it's a long story probably worth another video but in my teens I was all about dragon ball z it's an anime about guys training nuts like nuts and fighting and stuff and aliens and I overdid my training and I hurt my body and yoga helped me but there's still quite a few injuries and you know with age they started become more evident and I want to make sure I make sure my body is healthy and to consciously spend time foam rolling jujitsu this is purple belt I'm a blue belt right now and I want to make sure I do spend some time training my jujitsu and evolving and that's what the purple belt represents it's not about getting a purple belt until September I don't care about belts that much anymore whatsoever because I already have like a black belt like you know and it's worth nothing so fuck belts it's just sort of symbol but that symbol yeah it reminds me that I should do jujitsu it's not very big as you can see I mean you know I did not include a lot of other things so it still means it's significant but but but but but you know it's not as big because I just really want to focus on these all other things that are important in my life right now maybe after you know September I'll make this bigger and spend more time including this is MMA you know stand up fighting I want to make sure I do some of that to you but but right now I need to establish myself in all the rest of the things and and then keep my keep up my martial arts game but then invest more into it later when there's more space when when there's a momentum in my new journey right now I feel like I need to invest more energy into making this thing happen and then when there's momentum then I can spend more time training martial arts they're not as significant right now in my life as maybe some of you are set to see her but that's the truth habits it's part of the two-minute rule club and tribe sorry and it's pretty big you know developing my habits sharing about habits that I realized that's one of the first niches I wanted to make sure I establish myself in in bringing value to the world and so I want to make sure it's there breeding is big it's a whole another great story I should probably stop saying that but worth another video I'll just start making though but but yeah um the book thing it's so big because I realized I was reading actually a really good book like if you're interested in social media kind of establishing your presence and show social media putting out content crush it so good just mind-blowingly good haven't read anything like it just go and read it uh and it's actually fairly short book the second I listened to the audio book of the second book crushing it really good too but like both of them are great but the first one is just like read it and uh and there was a point which caught me because I felt for a moment I started realizing that the new direction the journey didn't go as smoothly as I intended and I just checked my microphone and uh and I realized there's something I'm missing like there's I'm doing things but things are not really doesn't feel like they're working at least definitely not to a degree I was expecting it's going to work so I realized there's some information I'm missing there's something I'm not conscious of and I need to find the answer and in truly I started reading that book and early enough uh it's a whole long story again but in the book Gary V the the writer he said back in the day it was his first impression that he kind of changed his mind but I think he's still true you need to become you need to be the best at what you do you need to be an expert at your theme at your at your subject that you are putting out content of and there's another approach which he kind of redeems himself about and and that's kind of how I made the martial arts journey work is you can document your journey and part of the journey is about that is about documenting my journey to to to developing my expertise but I realized it's important it's true if I want to give something to others I need to have it I need to learn more I need to I need to become an expert at the things which matter and then I started asking myself when I heard him say that an expert to be to have an expertise for putting out content I realized I'm missing knowledge I'm missing some skills and I realized I need to go down that rabbit hole and that's why I went nuts and I just started reading and reading and listening to all your books and just like for a couple weeks already I just it's quite a few books and and I just keep getting them I feel it's so good about that especially when it's the right book and because that knowledge I feel I keep getting understanding new solutions I keep understanding what I'm missing I keep understanding what I'm not understanding and it's empowering me to make this journey happen more and more so I'm just going that's about it and I realized yeah I need to level up I need to level up my game I need to become better and this I need sure that this would take a lot of space my development my learning my development of knowledge I need to own it and go to the next level to make it happen it's not right now the way I am it's good it's enough but it's also not enough anyway I could go forever but I hope you see my point just read read read learn more become better give more and two more parts so so this guy actually added it today I'll be honest again there was this empty space here but after I made this and especially after this part I went nuts I went wild I need a bit of a sip of coffee I'm about to be done but let's keep this energetic and I went wild and I was just like working working because also Gary V in his book crush it said that you need to work like crazy and I'm good at working like I need to I need to work on my resting skills and I worked on it but I need to be conscious of resting I don't need to force myself to work I need to force myself to rest and I disregarded that for a while and I went nuts the whole day every moment I was reading or creating content or thinking contemplating writing and I started to feel like after like about 10 days almost two weeks I started burning out and I've been there before and I caught myself where I was like broke us you're doing too much you need to balance yourself out and I actually made a couple of videos about that I'll release them later but like casual meditation and stuff like that but but I started integrating that again into my life documenting that too and I realized shoot I need to come back to balance because my relationship started to suffer and my health started to suffer I wouldn't sleep as well because my brain's always active and and my productivity went down so I realized I need to bring balance and this is you know this is just a small picture but still it's you know it's still there I want to make sure to remind myself just working is not good I need to keep my balance and I need to make sure I'm not only working but also resting and enjoying life although work can be enjoyable too and the last part this is me I don't know if you know this part of my journey this is the outfit that actually I'll tell you secrets since you're staying in the studio for long enough this outfit cost me 500 euros because it's custom made and special material and high level designer stuff and it didn't go through some people liked it a lot of people were like gearing crap about it and there's some parts which I'm not there's certain bits and pieces like I really appreciate my friend doing this for me it was a big project but there's certain parts where I don't feel like it's me and like if it would be 100% me then I would own it and I'd be like fuck everyone I don't care if you don't like it I love it but there's a couple of small pieces which kind of in the back of my mind says you know this is not you and then when somebody says what the fuck are you doing then I feel guilty and I realized so now secret reveal and making a version two which I would feel like it's more me most elements will be there but I'll change a couple of elements but but the story about this why I made sure that this picture is big enough I'm not giving away my dream I'm not giving away my what I spoke about in the beginning of this new direction in the beginning of this journey of of creating a symbol of what I'm working on and expressing it through a certain outfit now I realize I need to focus much more about doing that for myself like like not pushing it in down everyone's throat and be like oh look at me I have this new cool outfit but instead of just instead just making it so I would feel that it would remind me that this is what I am about and eventually probably people would be like oh look at that that's the outfit long story another video but but right there it's this represents this is still the symbol that represents my complete and utter devotion to the desire to become the best version of myself and to serve others that did not change I'm changing my approach I'm learning from my mistakes I'm figuring out what I've done wrong and and I'm I'm coming to conclusions and putting them into work but the big picture is still the same I want to create a symbol and put it out there put it out there in the world of complete devotion to a purpose so those kind of go together you know this is just fictional this is hopefully becoming a reality yeah I could talk more but I hope you see what I'm kind of pointing out so yeah this is it and as you may see if my computer doesn't like this is the actual image on the desktop it changes every 10 minutes I have a couple more I'll quickly show it to you before we split apart so this is my folder of changing pictures this one I will still speak about to you in the future this is my working project what I'm focusing these days on I made a video about this one and this is the vision board and I want to make sure that I don't want to do the same mistake that I did in the past I don't want it to be always the same because then it just becomes numb the mind becomes numb and you don't start you start not seeing it but when you when it changes you're like oh look at this let's remember what this is about so my vision board as soon as I turn on my laptop and this picture is there I look at it and sometimes I look at it for like five minutes sometimes I look at it for 10 minutes and I just kind of meditate with it I'll just sit there with it feeling to remember it's important to me ask myself am I really moving this way and so far yes moving this way happy buddy but again in September we'll make another video and we'll reflect whether I was able to achieve that my goodness this is a very long video but I I promise myself to trust my intuition and I feel like it's important that I do this maybe a lot of people won't watch this until the end today but maybe in the future you know when things pick up and people will be like oh I wonder how rocas became rocas and they'll watch this video and to be honest I feel like there was a lot of valuable stuff insights that hopefully will be beneficial to you as well and that's the reason it's good to do it the microphone is still running my doggo is spending his time with me and I think that's a good time to end so again before I finish up I encourage you to make your own vision board I think it's a great process especially with those twists of having limited space that makes you really prioritize and think what's important what's more important what's less important realizing that you can do everything you need to deflect some things and add others so yeah if you're gonna make that send it to me to my email brocasleo at gmail.com I'd love to see it and if you have if you're also gonna share write me you know what's what I'm really enthusiastic about it I'd really love to see it so if you're gonna make it send it to me I won't show it to anyone else unless you'll be you'll say let's show the world and if you have any questions about that or insights let me know I always appreciate hearing your comments they're not necessary I will still do this despite whether I get comments or not but when I get some supportive comments it does make my day I'll be honest so so yeah thank you for watching and keep questioning