 for my channel for recording my channel look baby don't come for me in my Christmas tree while my Christmas tree is uh why don't you guys it is January 2nd I got a good week before that's gonna start looking a little lazy so anyway in this video I'm gonna be going over some of my goals for 2018 and what to expect from my YouTube channel this year you guys first of all I want to say thank y'all for your support thank you for verily rolling with me I don't know about you baby but I am so blessed to be able to make it to 2018 not like I wasn't on my deathbed or anything but y'all I just feel overwhelming pride to be able to just grateful and I didn't even pride just grateful to be able to wake up in 2018 because we know everything that happened last year all of the mass shootings terrorism around the world I know a couple of you guys have lost loved ones I lost the family member there's people who didn't make it to 2018 a couple of you are dealing with you know some real issues or I know a couple of my subscribers have you have cancer and so and I'm praying for you guys it's just such a blessing to be able to see another day and to make it to 2018 y'all we made it so I'm very blessed overall I'm very blessed so last year was a good year I got married my best friend got married but it was also a very stressful year I had a lot of anxiety and I discussed in a couple of my vlogs but I learned some things about myself and about being a mother and about being a wife JV was a mess JV is my four-year-old the toddler years are over girl his personality has shined through this year he is so cute on my vlogs is me but he is like that 24-7 girl and you ain't living here with him so yeah it was a bit taxing and one of the things I learned because I do believe that you need to pull from issues you go through and learn from it right so one of the things that I learned especially as a mother or wife and just juggling all these different roles and responsibilities that I gotta take her of me first okay I gotta spend time for myself take care of myself and I wasn't doing that a lot last year which is why I kept having to take a break from you guys so yeah that is something I'm definitely going to do this year and thankfully praise God JV starts kindergarten in August so that's gonna be a huge relief for me because he's home with me and I work from home he's home with me two days out of the week so yeah I also learned that to not sweat the small stuff y'all to really not sweat the small stuff don't get angry old little bitty things you know cuz it's gonna be another day and it's gonna be okay as far as my goals for this year you guys saw my vision board of my digital vision board video and thank you for the feedback on that video that is something I created in 2015 and a lot of the items on that vision board have come true I've come into existence like me getting married I started doing yoga I've lost some weight I created a savings account or opened up a savings account excuse me for Chabessa so what I had to do over the course of the past three days is to look at that vision board again and try to determine okay what can I do this year to fulfill some of these items okay so I have a couple of jot it down things here I'm not gonna go over everything girl we're gonna be here forever but I am gonna cover two or three items and then we're gonna move into the fun things which is what to expect from me on my youtube channel okay one of the items and I'm laughing at it because I'm watching something right now that goes against this but last year my husband made a comment when I was going through one of my little anxiety not little I don't want to downplay it because it's serious so when I was having some anxiety I was watching Real Hot Wives of Atlanta and it was the episode where Portia those of you who watched the show it was an episode where Portia and Nini were fighting and they were cursing and angry and going back and forth and my husband was basically like why are you even watching this this is not helping your anxiety he said this is probably adding to your anxiety you're watching something that's very negative you need to be watching something that's more calming like you know national geographic and at the time I was like what anybody got trying to be watching over damn lions but he's right he was absolutely right and looking back at it I can honestly say I don't watch a lot of tv but sometimes I'll have a tv on the background and what I'm watching is ratchet tv show so one of my goals is to go one month without no type of negative ratchet Real Hot Wives love and hip hop marriage to medicine none of that stuff I'm not gonna watch any other stuff for a whole month see how my mood changes how my personality changes so yeah that's one of them I really need to save more money I didn't do that bad with spending this this year but I could have saved a lot more money okay I wasn't the year before I was spending a lot of money and this year I just need to do better about you know saving my money so yeah that's another one um one that has to do with my career is that I need to decide on my career my career path and I think that's the goal for a lot of us and I think that's where a lot of us are trying to achieve is what should I be doing I think that and I'm trying like to go off subject a little bit but I think that it's never too late to start over it's never too late to pursue your dreams I have a couple of friends you guys I have older friends I mean I only have a few friends that are my age most of my friends are in their 40s 50s 60s 70s yeah so anyway I have a couple of friends that fulfill their life dreams later on in life I have one friend she became an author at 72 and she's actually on her second book I have another friend that got her phd which she was like 65 years old so it's never too late to you know start over to start something new however I don't want to waste time I want to be thriving and my purpose you know my kingdom assignment is what we call it right now while I'm in my prime and fine but so one of the things I did just this morning was to narrow down what I think I want to do as a career but I really need to think about am I passionate about these things and the problem that I have and I think a couple of you may have it too is that I'm good at a lot of different stuff I'm good at I don't know uh documentations SOPs process management process improvement I'm good at cooking I'm good at presentations but just because I'm good at something doesn't mean that's what I'm supposed to be doing so I don't want to be doing anything that's going against what I'm supposed to be doing or going against what we call God's will I want to be in a line on what I was created for harming in on those gifts that I have that someone else may not have you know what I mean so um and one of the things tips I want to give you guys if you think about changing career go to career builder type in what you're interested in look at the skills set the skills that are needed for that position and still go for it baby that's exactly what I did for the first 10 years but I noticed for the for the past five or six five or six years I've been in a standstill with my career because I became a mom um became a wife and so I've just been I haven't been going up the corporate ladder sort of speak but yeah I just definitely need to hone in on that I'm going to spend February really focusing on that you guys I'm going to actually create a separate vision board just for my career itself um so yeah now when it comes to my youtube channel again thank you guys for your support because baby I know it's like I'm not doing any new product reviews I'm like oh I'm not vlogging right now so thank you guys for sticking with me um I am with a network those of you who don't know I am with univision I'm actually with the root which is through univision and so we discuss certain things prior to launching you know probably prior to me signing up with them excuse me and one of the things that one of my goals for my channel was to reach 10 000 subscribers because at the time I was at like five six thousand but they saw potential in me they loved my content and so I went and ended up signing up with univision I met 14 000 subscribers I did hit 14 000 last year but one of the things that I did yeah I do not advise for you who if you're thinking about starting a youtube or you want to be a youtuber don't compare yourself to other people and I started to do that towards the end of last year especially a couple of particular people who our content is kind of similar and I noticed that I'm like they are surpassing me and subscribers I'm like what the hell but I looked at I admire that I'd never get jealous of anyone else I'm my own person you're your own own person there's enough for all of us right I admire people who do that another system winning I love it but I'm like what the hell what are they what are they doing and what can I do to better my content my channel um so one of the things I noticed with this particular person is that she's very professional in her videos she's not as random as I am her social media media accounts are very well put together very personal and you go over to my instagram and I have pictures of pancake nothing wrong with that but I need to pull back a little bit you know jv can't be in my videos all the time because that can be distracting and there's some people who may not like kids just keeping it real hell I don't like some people kids and so some people may find that cute but other people may be like I wish that I could just focus on the content her hair and I get it okay um so yeah I need to do be a little bit better by that I'm getting better with my background it's getting better with my editing my thumbnails my music thank you guys for the compliments on that um what else I did a and this is again tailoring kind of making sure that I pull back a little bit on what I say a little bit of a filter when I did the collaboration with tiara then and she came over here and I think I said a couple of things she was like oh we're gonna have to edit that out edit that I'm like damn and so the one thing I remember was that I told her I said my titties hang a little low and she was like oh we gotta edit that out and I was like I say titties at least two or three times a week in my videos but I respected her wishes I respected your wishes I ended out you know me saying titties when I was titties look when you get to be triple these these are not breasts at all these are titties so but I ended it out and I get it I will be pulling back a lot more it will still be viviant I'll still be 100 with you I'll still be there because I think that me being this way is relatable but sometimes not everyone likes that and I get it so there will be a lot more of my product reviews where out there will be voiceover so that you don't hear JB so that you don't so I'm not so random so I can get to the point my videos will stay about the five six minute mark there won't be these 10 minute you know videos even though a couple you say you like the longer videos so yeah now as far as content vlogging and product reviews are coming back in March now don't get worried you guys I do have a couple of videos scheduled before then next month I will be going over what worked with me doing my six months natural hair journey it went by like that didn't it that's what I told you guys be patient when it comes to your hair I remember recording my video on what I plan on doing over the next six months and we're already here we're towards the end okay so yes that video is coming up I have a couple of other videos I think I may do a protein treatment sometime this month but starting in March I will be going back to my product reviews and I'm going to label this a series because I'm going to be focusing on one line a month so um maybe I'll maybe like a month with so like a month with allocate natural's a month with Camille Rose and I think my hair will hair will appreciate this and not going to shock you know using a different product every week because typically lines use similar ingredients so it won't be too much on my hair too much stress on my hair either so starting up in March will be allocate natural's and so the goal is to highlight one product a week so maybe you know the shampoo and conditioner week one week two a leave and spray week three a deep conditioner and then week four I would be using a styling product and then create a style so I'll let you guys know which product reviews are coming up and this is in order like I said in March allocate natural's we'd be first and the next up we have the main choice Mal is it meal Mal meal organics Jane Carter curls to go did you guys know that Jane Carter has a line that's just for four category chicks and it's called curls to go and on her website it says just for four seats so I'm very excited to try that line I make it those products for free girl Camille Rose and then ended it with Aunt Jackie so this will take us into August with product reviews again focusing on one product for the entire month in addition to that I want to bring you guys different series because I've been on YouTube for five years I've done tons of hair videos I mean every now and then I think it's funny someone will say do you have a video on this or this product is gonna not I sometimes if I have time I'll respond with the link to that I have over 500 videos and yeah a lot of those are vlogs but I have a lot of product reviews so it become a little redundant and with that being said the focus still will be hair and hair related videos but I do want to provide valuable content to my subscribers so a couple of days to go again I let you guys know that I have some ideas for some series and it seemed to be the most popular ones was the woman to woman series and the um passion driven a purpose driven journey okay so those are the two that I two that I will be highlighting on my channel throughout the year to give you guys a little bit more information on the series woman to woman so this is this is going to be a little random series but it's going to be more informational advice um maybe show you how to season the cast on skillet um how to entertain on a budget um I don't know there there could be some cooking video sprinkled throughout that um just random stuff but woman to woman that kids craft uh kids book collection stuff like that you know skincare so that would be the woman to one woman to woman series now the purpose driven journey is the one that I got a lot more feedback from the one I'm really excited about you saw my eyebrows go up right the one that I'm really excited about so going over and I can show you real quick going over several different books on this one is actually called the purpose driven life which I'm actually going to change the title of that series because I don't want to mimic this but this book is called the purpose driven life and so I am going to change the series y'all um and I have another book and I just have different things that I've been reading yeah and that would include basically what I've just started to do going over career career goals um career development um how to horn it on your skill set so basically you will see me going through the process of trying to figure out what the hell I want to do with my life but hopefully that can help someone out there and you guys can we can help each other because that's what I'm look I'm trying to get there this year I'm claiming it right now for all of y'all from all of me I'm trying to get into my purpose I want to be walking into my purpose this year amen and I think I will I know I will so I'm really excited about that like I said that's coming in April now I know some of you be like that's a lot of different stuff on your channel girl I agree I agree um I did contact Univision for feedback on whether or not I should create a second channel and pull the vlogs and the non-hair related content onto a separate channel I'm still waiting on you know feedback from them but you guys I may be quite honest with you I probably won't do that for the simple fact that I won't be able to monetize those videos I'm just gonna keep it 100 with you I won't be able to monetize those videos and if I'm really going to be creating content this as extensive like goal setting it took me half a day to create that previous video on the vision board half the day so I want to be compensated for the work I put in YouTube is a lot of work and so yeah I think I could get to 10,000 views in a couple of months but until then I won't be able to make any money on all those videos I'm posting up so more than likely I will not create a second channel but there are other youtubers who have successful channels and they have a bunch of stuff Yolanda Renee I was looking at her channel last night she has nails hauls um hair skin decoration that is the most random channel I've ever seen and I love it I'm here for it so since I'm more than likely you want to be creating a second channel this is what the breakdown of what the video schedule is going to look like Monday Wednesday will be for vlogs and then Fridays will be for nothing but hair even if it's the you know month in series that's going to be for hair and then Saturday once I start the woman to woman and the purpose driven series Saturdays will be for that but again that's not coming to April and more than likely those videos won't be weekly they will be like bi-weekly so basically twice a month of the series so yes you guys that is the goal I'm ready to work work hard I do believe in the hard work I don't believe you that you can sit on your button expect great things to happen you got to work for it right so yeah I'm ready and excited to hear you guys success stories so that is it you guys thank you so much for watching and take care bye