Stop Overthinking and Start Creating transcript

I don't know who needs to hear this, but just post. I have literally spent a week just procrastinating on what the next video will be at some point. Before I got started in my journey, it was like literally months of just thinking about it, wondering about it. Well, what will people say? What what if I embarrass myself? I'm not going to be good. And let me kind of just break it down as somebody who's been doing YouTube for 7 years now.

Nobody cares. And even if they do, that shouldn't really matter to you. YouTube has completely changed my life. Despite the whole business side of things, just from a personal growth point of view, I used to really be worried about what people thought about me, what I looked like. My hair always had to be perfect. There was like a bunch of different stuff where I really cared about my appearances. And actually, YouTube has shown me that nobody gives a crap.

Like, there's a stain on my shirt. Not one person out of 50,000 people who see the video is going to comment on it. My hair's messed up. nobody really cares. Like, it's going gray like nuts. Doesn't really matter. If you look back at the first videos that I did on my channel, they're just really, really bad. Um, but at one point, I kind of got to this thing where it's like, this is something that I want to do. This is what I know that I have something to share with the world and I really, really, really want to put it out there, but I'm scared that like, you know, people will judge me that just people I know would see the videos and stuff like that.

There's always a million reasons not to do the thing that is important to you, especially when it comes to creation because we're putting our hearts into something. We're sharing something that's deep or meaningful to us or a story that happened to us. And if you get rejected, you have this fear. It's kind of like this tribal fear that like you'll be rejected by the tribe. And that's a perfectly normal feeling. But if you look at anybody that you look up to, pretty much anybody that has achieved anything, especially in this space, like for me it was Peter Mckennon, it was Casey Neistat, like some of the OGs of YouTube.

And if you look at them, they wouldn't have existed. They wouldn't have had the impact that they had on my life that like one of the reasons I'm still doing YouTube is because they made videos. They just posted. And if you think like Casey, he was posting every single day. And while that's, you know, not necessarily the path anymore, there's a lot of people who do great, you know, posting once a month and other people do great, you know, posting every single day.

The important thing is that they are posting. And one of the most common traps that I see a lot of small creators make is getting this perfection thing where like, I need to have my niche figured out. I need to have the name of my channel. I need to have my banner. I need to have my editing style and my music. And then you're thinking, thinking, thinking, scripting, scripting, scripting, and they never make the video.

Or they make one or two and then they stop because everything has to be perfect. like perfect doesn't exist. What you need to do is post bad videos, accept that they will be bad, and continue to grow. Because 6 months from now, if you do your job and you grow as a creator 6 months ago, you should cringe at the videos you're making today. And if you're not, that means you suck as a creator cuz you're not growing. So, you should always look back and be like, I could have done that better.

Could have done that better. Could have spoken better. Could have told the story better. Could have done the music better. And if you're not doing that, it means you're not growing. So, it's okay to make bad stuff because that's how you make better stuff. It's okay to do kind of what I did and copy, you know, some of the people who I really looked up to and pretty much get a free lesson from them. There was this one video I did where I lived like Matt Della for a week when I was like a really small creator.

And for part of the video, I just copied his sequence and I put it in there so that I like wasn't like stealing. It was kind of like giving honor to him more or less. And I copied it shot for shot. And I did that and that taught me exactly how he shot his shots. And that made me a better creator. and he commented on that video and eventually we got to speak because I I did another video on him as well, but that came from taking the leap to actually post and he could have looked at the video and be like, "Man, this kid sucks.

Like, this is a really bad video." And that would have been like my, you know, YouTube dad at the time looking down and saying like, "No, you you suck as a creator." But he didn't. He's encouraged because you also think about the hate that you're going to receive. There is no person who is more successful than you that is going to crap on what you are doing. It is only going to be people who are more or less sad or kind of losers or or are looking for an excuse for them not to do something themselves that are going to be the ones to give you hate comments.

And trust me, I've received thousands of hate comments, a lot of hate comments. And I just feel really bad for those people. And that's something why a lot of people won't post is because of the hate comments. But you think of how sad somebody has to be in order to go on and say something negative about you uh anonymously on a YouTube video. You just feel bad for that person. However, every person that you look up to will never be that person to comment because they realize what it takes to actually post a video, to make something, to create, to put your heart and soul into something and put it out there into the world.

So, if you have this fear of your friends judging you, your family judging you, that you're not good enough, that you don't have the skills, that you don't know what you want to talk about, any of these things that are real things, it's not that complicated. Don't tell your friends and family about your YouTube channel. Or if you do, don't care what they think. Don't know what you're going to talk about. Just talk about stuff that you're interested in.

You'll find it out eventually. One of my students started off talking about a bunch of random stuff, and now he's doing castiron frying pans. Made his first $1,000 in a day. got his first viral video talking about cast iron frying pans when he started in self-improvement. But he learned the skills of YouTube and made things he was interested in until eventually something stuck. If he had quit before that, if he had never experimented and kept growing and kept trying, would have never happened.

You also just can't compare your right now to where other people are in the future. Like you should suck at making YouTube videos, especially if you're just getting started. You shouldn't be good at it. If you are, you're an anomaly. Like you should be really bad at making YouTube videos. And the only way to get better is to learn how to do them by doing them. Like you can read as many books about it, take as many courses about it as you want.

But unless you make the videos, create whatever you want to create, you're never going to get better at that thing. Like you can read a book on how to ride a bike until you ride the bike. You're not going to get better at riding the bike. Especially creating online is like the ultimate source of freedom because you literally can get to live your life. Talk about things that you are most passionate about in the world. share as much or as little as you want to share and have the opportunity for infinite upside on how much money you make, how many people you connect with online and in the real world.

You can literally live the life of your dreams through getting past that fear of death, that fear of rejection, of of getting kicked out of the tribe. If you're able to get to the other side of that, that's where all the rewards are. And that's why, you know, 90% of people fail, especially when it comes to YouTube, is because they quit, you know, within a couple of videos because the pressure, the fear, the whatever is too much.

The grind is too much. And they're never able to see what the reward would have been, what their life could have been if they had just said, "Screw it. I don't care what people think. I'm just going to do what I want to do. Going to post what I want to post. I'm going to create what I want to create." And I know that there are other people out there on the billions of people on this planet that connect with me. And that is such a cool feeling when you bump into somebody in the street and they're like, "Hey, this tip that you gave me helps me every single day of my life." One person came up to me and they're like, "Hey, I sold my my house and I moved into a tiny home because of you." And I'm like, I've never even talked about a tiny home.

So that's literally I like I didn't I was awkward and I didn't know how to like what what to respond to that cuz I'm a pretty awkward person in general. But somebody had literally made lifechanging decisions inspired by videos that I had made in my living room and their life and they were happier. They they like thanked me, their finances were better and it was like the best feeling ever. You can have that as a small creator.

You can have that as a big creator. But you can't have that if you never impact anybody's life cuz you're too scared to create. If you want to take this more seriously, I do have a free YouTube miniourse down below, completely free. We'll send you an email every single day and you'll learn some really valuable skills. People have said it's more valuable than courses that they've paid money for. So maybe I should charge for it.

But I really want you to create something. So uh check it out if you're interested. If not, um drop a like. It helps the the algorithm and all that type of stuff. But yeah, go out there and make