8 Books That Made Me A Youtube Millionaire transcript

Just a little intro here. These books literally made me a YouTube millionaire. So, I thought I would go through and give you like one takeaway from each that changed the trajectory of my life, my finances, and uh made me successful on YouTube. So, it's no particular order on this, but this should save you roughly 45 hours versus trying to read all these. Number one is Think and Grow Rich. As a YouTuber, this is literally what we do.

We come up with an idea about something, we turn it into reality, even if we're not like working hard with our hands, and then we can make money off of that. And so, what I literally do for a living is I think and I grow rich. The better my thoughts, more mental clarity I have, the more outside the box I can think, the more money that I make. So, feed your mind, read some books. Make more money. Next thing is The One Thing.

Uh I think I did a whole video about this, but the idea of this is to do one thing every day to get you closer to your goals. You guys have probably heard me preach on this on this channel, of like, "I've done one thing every day for YouTube for the past 7 years, 8 years, whatever it's been, and that's why I'm successful. It's not cuz I'm exceptionally talented, although I am very talented now, it's because I've done one thing every day for 7 years." Like, it would literally be insane if you didn't work on one skill every day for 7 years and you weren't like one of the best in the world at it.

That would be crazy. Next up, we have Storyworthy. I actually love I think we have two by this guy, Matthew Dicks. Storyworthy, great book. If you're a YouTuber, probably check it out. Really talks about how to find stories throughout your life, how to tell stories as a creator, but also just as like just to make your life happier. Um so, this really helped me on my channel. I went from trying to teach people how to do stuff to telling stories about how I did things myself, and it ended up working a lot better.

Like, like for instance, even this video right here. I could make this same video, and I could just tell you what you should do from this, but instead, I am framing this in a way where I am showing you I read a book, I implemented it into my life. Some of these like I built systems, I literally hired people, I changed the structure of my business. Like we'll get into those. I actually did things and then I just kind of report back to you on what worked and what didn't work, and that makes this video different than somebody else who gives you eight books that will blow up your business or something where they're just telling you what to do.

They're telling you stuff. Um so, I always try to speak in stories and personal experience in all my videos on all my channels versus trying to teach people stuff or or or talk at them. Um so, anyways, StoryWorthy, really good if you're trying to engage with people, teach people, um just get better at the the art of filmmaking uh from the speaking side of things. We do have my favorite one as the last one for our work week.

We'll get to that in a minute, but uh Millionaire Fastlane, this one is what kind of unlocked my mind that you could make a lot of money in a short amount of time, right? And when you shoot for bigger things, dang, I should have put 10x as easy as 2x in here. I have lent that to somebody actually. So, I don't have that. Never mind. Um Millionaire Fastlane, it is similar to that where what happens if we just try to make $5 million in the next 5 years?

When I used to earn $50,000 a year, that didn't seem possible. Seems like something you read about in a book. And then you read enough books and you meet enough people, you realize it's possible and you're like, "Okay, let's 10x as easy as 2x. What what do we change about the structure of our business? What do we change about our outputs, our inputs, how we work? What do we change in order to make that a possibility?" Even if it's not a possibility right now, later on it is.

And by doing the things that I've learned in this book, which is really focusing on something that has that potential to earn that amount of money versus something that doesn't like my day job didn't have that potential. 50k, 60k was probably the the max, whereas YouTube, now if we got to the point where we made that uh in a month, it would probably be a bad month, which is absolutely crazy. That doesn't happen overnight, but it works only because it is something scalable.

So, I love this book and the aggressiveness of it. I think these ones are actually my favorite, but uh, before we do get to this one, I I want to let you know uh, about the sponsor of today's video, Storyblocks. I've been using them on my main channel and this channel, obviously, um, for 3 years, something like that, really long time. If you don't know what Storyblocks is, radable, incredible stock music, b-roll, sound effects, different templates that you can put in for editing and all these different stuff to make your videos just better, [music] right?

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So, check them out. There's a link down below. You can get an exclusive [music] limited-time discount only for the people who use my link. So, thank you so much for sponsoring this video. Let's get into Buy Back Your Time, our dear friend Dan Martell, who we've never met or talked to. Anyways, when I hired my first part-time employee, and I have multiple of them, this gave me a really, really, uh, good mindset cuz I never managed people all that well before.

Uh, and so this gave me ideas of what I should outsource, what I should keep, how I should, uh, manage people, how should give them responsibility. And the one takeaway was uh, that I that I love doing now, is like, when somebody has a problem, you know, maybe it's marketing, maybe it's um, my Facebook side of things, maybe it's my editing. Instead of like, "Hey, here's a problem." I I always ask for them to come back with like, "If you have a problem, come to me with three solutions and I'll give you which one I think is best or something." So that a lot of times they'll just fix the problems themselves and I don't have to deal with it.

But outsource everything you can so you can focus on what matters. Obviously, there's a bunch more to all these books, but we have to keep it moving. DotCom Secrets, this one has probably made me the most money to be honest with you. Some ideas from this that really struck me was like, first of all, he talked about the first time they made a, you know, a million dollars in a month and then in a day and then I think in like an hour or or somebody in here.

And that seemed crazy until I had lower versions of that, but like, "Okay, I could never dream of making 10K a month on YouTube." And then I could never dream about making 10K a week on YouTube. And then I could never dream about making 10K a day on YouTube. Then I could never dream making 10K an hour on YouTube. And I have done all of those and and then some levels past that which is incredible. But a lot about marketing and just different ideas that come together in a lot of different ways like the way we send emails for the affiliate funnel through Facebook and all this different stuff.

A lot of it came through here. And so this book has made me multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars. Check out the whole series. Obviously, all this stuff only works if you put it into practice. So next up we have Extreme Ownership. One of my favorite books. I will just say that with this one right here, YouTube, if you're blaming the algorithm, if you're blaming other people, if you're blaming your background or whatever, it's your fault.

Just assume it's your fault. If a video tanks, which it could. This video right here could tank. I didn't do the normal research that I do. Drop a like if you don't want it to tank, if you think it's at least a little bit valuable. Usually, I do like research and title and thumbnail and all this different stuff to give myself the best odds of success. And I can still sometimes be wrong, but I assume it's cuz I did something wrong.

I didn't realize what the audience was into. I didn't do enough research, I didn't structure it well, it wasn't edited well enough, whatever it is, um is going to be based on myself. So, I always blame everything. If I'm out of shape, it's not my diet, my metabolism, it's because I am lazy. And maybe it's harder for me than other people, maybe it's easier than other people. It's always my fault. It's always on me. When you don't blame other people, when you're not a victim, your entire life changes and you can have success on YouTube.

No victims have success on you. And I think I after a while, if you do have success, you realize that it's cuz you put in hard work, so you stop that mentality. Anyways, regardless. Someday is Today, another Matthew Dicks book. Uh one of my favorite productivity books. I just read this. And I will also say, uh one of the reasons why I like reading books on YouTube is I made three videos out of this one book. Um I think just in the past year.

Um and so this book not only has made me a lot of money just in the videos, ideas that I got out of the chapters of them, but it'll also help me a lot in productivity. If you're not reading books in your space, whatever your space is, I'm telling you, out of all these books, I've probably made at least one video from each of them where I'll take a chapter or an idea and I'll expand that into a entire video and how it changed my life and I'll make a video out of that thing.

Um so not only does it help the business, it also helps produce content. But even just the title of this, Someday is Today. Uh eventually you're going to run out of somedays. If you're thinking about starting a YouTube channel, if you're thinking about growing, see treating it seriously, asking out the girl, whatever it is, just do it now. Don't waste your life. One of my favorite parts about having a YouTube channel is that the cracks of my life, when you're when you're just sitting there, you're looking out the window, it is the test that I like to do recently.

Um when you're sitting there looking out the window, what do you think about? Think about your dog, about your family, think about projects you have to do around the house. What is your like your your muse, the thing you obsess about? Is it a video game? For me, I love I freaking love YouTube. I love it. I love teaching it. I love studying it. I love reading books. I love, you know, productivity, making my life better.

I love the business side of things. I like I love the scalability. I like making videos, but I also like making money. It's really fun. Allows you to do even more fun things. I like that side. When I have free time, when I'm just staring at a fireplace, a lot of times I think about that. And when you have an obsession that can change your life, instead of thinking about video games or project around the house, which those things are fine, too, right?

But instead of thinking about that, you think about something that can change the trajectory of your life. So, when you have 5 minutes, you write down a video idea. When you have 2 minutes, you work on a script. When you have 20 minutes, you read a book about something that can improve your life. So, you you take all those cracks throughout your life and you fill them with things that can make your life better, that can change the trajectory of it, right?

So, I love that idea from this book. I've done multiple videos on my main channel about that. Now, the big daddy of them all, The 4-Hour Workweek. Bam! Okay. My YouTube course is called The 5-Hour YouTuber. So, guess where I got that idea. This book changed my life. Um It, again, made me see that it was possible. When he talked about, you know, earning $40,000 a month, I was like, that's literally not even like I don't I can't believe it.

But then there were so many stories of other people who've done it different ways. And then I kept listening to podcasts and more stuff. And then I would see so many stories, stories, proof, proof, proof, proof, proof, until I believed it was possible and then I achieved it and I surpassed it. And the cool thing is this frames it in a way that if you can get YouTube to make, let's say, $5,000 a month, which if you obsess about it for 3 years, probably going to happen, but regardless, if you can get it to that point and you can lower your expenses to $4,000 a month, you can literally just do whatever you want for the rest of your life.

He talks about this idea of dreamlining and finding out how much money you need and whatever, but it's not something like it doesn't have to be big giant stuff, right? It can be as simple as lowering your expenses, traveling the world pretty cheap relatively like if you're single or or whatever it is for you. Um and then just building an income stream that you can run in a couple hours a week, 5 hours a week maybe. Mhm, yeah.

Mhm, very creative, I know. Um and then just work that, systematize it, and enjoy your life. Don't wait till you're at retirement to your 60 to start living your life and traveling and stuff. That's literally stu- that worst case scenario, get this, worst case scenario is everybody else's reality. The worst case scenario for me when I quit my job was that I would have to get a job. I would already had a job. Okay? My sister quit her job last week.

Her worst case scenario is that she has to go back to work. She's currently running my Facebook business that does affiliate marketing through email. It's a it's a weird business, but we were able to create a whole system that makes 10 to 20,000 dollars a month baseline through Facebook affiliate marketing email funnel weird stuff. And now she just quit her job in order to run that. And her worst case scenario for taking the chance, for starting all this, for working two jobs at the same time, while being a mom, and all this type of stuff is that she now has to go back to doing the thing that she's doing right now.

So like reframe your worst case scenario, you're probably living it right now. At least try for something else because uh it can be a lot better. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to subscribe. Check out Storyblocks. If you want to join our year-long program, uh there's a link down below. I think we close in a couple days depending on when I get this video edited. If you're interested, feel free to check that out.

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