 Thank you to short form for sponsoring this video. A little bit of a different video today. I'll explain. So I've been thinking a lot about what's actually like preventing me from hitting upload on a YouTube video. And just a warning, this may be slightly more casual video than usual as you can see me trying to get my camera on my tripod. There we go. Because obviously anyone that's been watching me for the past like, what, four years now that I've been on YouTube, posting consistently and having the motivation always hit that upload button has been something that I've been absolutely terrible at. There's been so many gaps and shifts and content and I just kind of wanted to take the opportunity to give you a little peek of what actually goes on in my head. So what I think it boils down to is this frame is terrible. So no, that's bad too, okay. So what I think it boils down to is me going through I guess cycles, where I'll be super excited, super motivated, the channel's doing well, be posting a lot and then we'll happen, I'll get busy, views will drop off and then I hit this low on motivation. This has happened like throughout the entirety of my YouTube career, you'll see bursts where I'm posting a lot, bursts where I'm not. And you know, it's something that I am constantly thinking about and it's constantly weighing over my head about, oh, I should post, oh, I've been posted in a couple weeks. Oh, what am I doing? Do I even have the motivation to keep going? Is this something that I'm interested in? Is this something that I really love? Yeah, it's a lot. It honestly kind of causes me a lot of stress sometimes. I think the big thing is, especially when it comes to some of my more vlog type videos, is just the amount of planning ahead of time that something actually takes. So I will try to plan out an idea for a video. And normally I try to hide a message or hide kind of the title of the video within a vlog type format. I actually saw like a really great video by Colin and Samir who were interviewing Yes Theory the other day. And I think they called it like hiding the vegetables. Hide the vegetables idea is basically the wholesome and the intentional and kind of important premise in the story is a little bit hidden. You're hiding like a specific message story within a larger vlog or context where you still can have that creative energy, put together a lot of cool cinematic sequences, share a story, but also have a key message, a key thing that you wanna talk about in every video. And that's kind of been my style. But the issue with that is it takes so much planning ahead of time to actually film a vlog. I have to think about what am I doing tomorrow? When am I gonna film? Where am I gonna do these little montages? And a lot of times I'll have this great idea in my head. I'll go to bed, wake up the next morning and be like, oh, I have to get to work. Oh, I have to, you know, go for a run. And then all of that preparation immediately goes out the window. And it's so like, it always happens when I'm sleeping too. I'll go to bed so motivated and then wake up and be like, oh, I don't have the energy to do this. And it's something that I haven't figured out on my own. It's something that I'm still working on. I feel like sometimes I put on this perfect image of me being so productive and always getting things done and I'm not. Like, I struggle with things like this all the time. I think another factor of it too is the fact that there is this balance as a YouTuber between experiencing something and then filming something. But on the flip side of that, there's so, I get so much enjoyment out of reliving past memories and going back and watching old videos and being able to relive those moments. So I feel like it's a very careful balance between being able to be fully there in the moment and also having something like a little moment to look back on. So that's still kind of like a spectrum. I'm trying to decipher myself, but I'd love to hear what you all think. But I think at the end of the day, it comes down to procrastination, making a plan and not being able to, you know, act on that decision, act on that plan that I set forth in the first place. And that's coming from the guy who literally made videos about productivity and procrastination and posted them on his channel a couple years ago. So if that's any sign that I'm not perfect, there it is. But ultimately, when it comes down to procrastination, I really like how it's defined in Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. He describes procrastination as the opposite of decision. And I really like that. 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