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Life As Usual Video Blog #9 – Community, Not Views

Every week I do a video blog (of VLOG). This week I talked about the cheapness of views.

When I started this,  I was very scared of putting myself on video, so I got the courage and put myself in the arena, killing a lot of bad self talk.This gives me the chance to work on my communication skills, start a new medium, and experiment!

Once a week, after I have thought about them, I will give them a day here on the blog.

These aren’t just promotion posts (although they are, please watch and share :-) ) I want to take the time to break them down and try to clarify what I want to communicate and the tactical things I learned through doing.

If you enjoyed the video, and if you want to get on the ride, please,subscribe to the YouTube channel, and join the Facebook page where they post every Sunday night.

What I Wanted To Communicate About Community

Views are super cheap. Today if you want, they are available for almost no money. What matters is the ability to connect.

  • A Face In The Crowd syndrome – Content is everywhere. I am not in the views game. Accidentally winning once or twice means nothing. 2005 a million views meant success and fame, now I see, without trying, 20 videos a day with millions of views, all different, all new.
  • Connection – The best thing is connection, a community. Much more worth it to get a one to one connection than a many to one.  I love every person that reads this, and when I get the opportunity to engage via email or social media, not much is better.

What I Learned Doing This Video

  • Felt better using my hands, do it more.
  • Pre production is my next step. How do I improve the content and quality with the preparation
  • I should cut more segments. Easier to edit, and easier to see the bigger picture.

If you enjoyed the video, and if you want to get on the ride, please, subscribe to the YouTube Channel, and join the Facebook page where they post every Sunday night.

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Life As Usual Video Blog #8 – New Years Resolution

Every week I do a video blog (of VLOG). This week I talked about New Years Resolution.

When I started this,  I was very scared of putting myself on video, so I got the courage and put myself in the arena, killing a lot of bad self talk.This gives me the chance to work on my communication skills, start a new medium, and experiment!

Once a week, after I have thought about them, I will give them a day here on the blog.

These aren’t just promotion posts (although they are, please watch and share :-) ) I want to take the time to break them down and try to clarify what I want to communicate and the tactical things I learned through doing.

If you enjoyed the video, and if you want to get on the ride, please,subscribe to the YouTube channel, and join the Facebook page where they post every Sunday night.

What I Wanted To Communicate About New Years Resolution

Resolutions are tough to deal with because they usually are a binary proposition, meaning that it’s an easy way to avoid them, so I prescribe something different for 2016

  • Big Themes – A strategic look at your year. What are some of the big themes or traits that you want to improve. The bigger the better, they should cover a lot of ground.
  • Small Milestones – These are the tactical things to tackle. Attach them to the themes. “Going to sleep earlier” is something that attached to a theme of “get healthier”.  Themes don’t change but milestones do.

What I Learned Doing This Video

  • Getting easier to talk in controlled bursts. The first few videos had some odd breaks, but now I’m getting used to talking “within the margins”
  • Cutting the before video after felt a lot better.

If you enjoyed the video, and if you want to get on the ride, please, subscribe to the YouTube Channel, and join the Facebook page where they post every Sunday night.

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Life As Usual Video Blog #5 – Preparation

Every week I do a video blog (of VLOG). This week I talked about preparation.

When I started this,  I was very scared of putting myself on video, so I got the courage and put myself in the arena, killing a lot of bad self talk.This gives me the chance to work on my communication skills, start a new medium, and experiment!

Once a week, after I have thought about them, I will give them a day here on the blog.

These aren’t just promotion posts (although they are, please watch and share :-) ) I want to take the time to break them down and try to clarify what I want to communicate and the tactical things I learned through doing.

If you enjoyed the video, and if you want to get on the ride, please,subscribe to the YouTube channel, and join the Facebook pagewhere they post every Sunday night.

What I Wanted To Communicate About Preparation

Preparation has a ton of benefits. It isn’t something I do well in my life, and I am looking to improve what I can do.

I hit on three bullet points

  • Preparing helps cut fear of doing work. You feel better and stay present after preparation.
  • Preparing is a force multiplier, you get better when you take time to prepare, in some ways one minute spent preparing gives you 10 extra minutes of action.
  • Don’t get locked in the act of preparation. The map is not the territory, use it as an aid. The objective is the task, not the plan.

What I Learned Doing This Video

  • No auto focus is better.
  • 15 minutes of tape ended up being under 5 minutes.
  • I learned how to use my tripod (sounds silly, but before I just stabilized it on a pile of boxes.)

If you enjoyed the video, and if you want to get on the ride, please, subscribe to the YouTube Channel, and join theFacebook page where they post every Sunday night.

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Life As Usual Vlog #4 – Lessons and Message

Every week I do a video blog (of VLOG). This week I talked about rest.

When I started this,  I was very scared of putting myself on video, so I got the courage and put myself in the arena, killing a lot of bad self talk.This gives me the chance to work on my communication skills, start a new medium, and experiment!

Once a week, after I have thought about them, I will give them a day here on the blog.

These aren’t just promotion posts (although they are, please watch and share 🙂 ) I want to take the time to break them down and try to clarify what I want to communicate and the tactical things I learned through doing.

If you enjoyed the video, and if you want to get on the ride, please, subscribe to the YouTube channel, and join the Facebook page where they post every Sunday night.

What I Wanted To Communicate About Rest

Rest is important. We often put it off, relying on the idea that “you sleep when your dead”. This puts us at a serious disadvantage. Our minds don’t grow when we don’t let them recharge.

I hit on three bullet points

  • Slowing down at work to give yourself the mental room to deal with new, different types of stress
  • Volunteering, allows you to rest some of the other muscles you train often (through work).
  • Sleep. We often don’t get enough of it.

What I Learned Doing This Video

  • Don’t use auto focus, it makes the picture jarring (Thanks Wale!)
  • I can use editing software on my phone to learn the basics.
  • It’s ok to cut things up, and make mistakes. Better to go long then to go short.

If you enjoyed the video, and if you want to get on the ride, please, subscribe to the YouTube Channel, and join the Facebook page where they post every Sunday night.

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Problem Solving and the 9 Hour Video

This video took 9 hours to make.

Producing is hard work.

What I assumed would take an hour, took 9. When I strive for more, I struggle. From 4 PM to 1 AM yesterday, I floundered, saw a small amount of success, then problems popped up again. What looked like a victory turned into defeat. It was three steps forward and two back.

It was frustrating. I wasn’t happy. But I kept at it. In the end, what started out as an exercise in producing media content turned into a lesson of persistence and learning through problems.

By producing this video, I had to deal with transfer errors, learning how to edit video, messed up sound, false starts, and even a virus. But, I kept going.

Eventually, 5 minutes came into the world on YouTube and Facebook. As a result, I learned a ton about uploading from my phone, free video editing software, YouTube editor, lighting, and file formats.

Doing this next week won’t take nearly the amount of time. Hopefully I will fun into more challenges along the way. Each challenge is nothing more than an opportunity to learn and build a knowledge base on problem solving.

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Video Blog #2 / Procrastination

Relax, we are filming.Alright, lets start on our reading habits.

Last night, I filmed my latest video blog(#2). I discuss my reading habits, and where I think I went wrong with them. It is an easy video in my head, I talk about the material all the time. But, for some reason, it took a lot of mental work to get this one up.

I spent the entire weekend worrying about it. I needed more time to “figure” it out.

“Figure it out” usually means scared.

Procrastination flows through fear. They feed each other.  Putting things off and figuring things out makes it easier to hide.

No content no feedback, no feedback no fear, no fear no accomplishment.

Hiding is awesome for comfort, but comfort creates all sorts of traps that leaves you stranded.

When I get stranded, I end up worse for the wear.Truth of it all is, to get things done, you have to do them. Nothing more, nothing less.

What helps me cut through this fear and procrastination are a few tools.

And at the end of it all – I end up with this.

 

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My First Video Blog

So, I made a video blog yesterday.

 

 

The image is from unsplash.co

To get somewhere you have to go somewhere.

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Two Videos – Louis CK and Seth Godin

I watched these videos this week, and both had a profound effect on me.  Both boil down to the truth of vulnerability and how we avoid it subconsciously through distraction.

Thanks Pablo for the Louis CK Video

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The Old Way Isn’t Enough

 

The old way isn’t enough. I had my awakening about the school system when I first read Weapons of Mass Instruction. It introduced me to the real world of New York City schools, and in effect, the school system as we know it. This video further informed me.

So what do we do when faced with the old – commit. Be vulnerable and take the first step. For anyone reading this post, that next step is clicking play above with an open mind.

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We See With Our Brain’s Not With Our Eyes

[bctt tweet=”What makes sense to us is on how we do things.”]

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