I have a thousand subscribers and almost 4 thousand watch hours in the last 365 days! It is rounded up in analytics page.

I am seeing that there may be two tracks to this group the one that is full on hustle culture and the one that is slower, more even paced. Neither is right or wrong, but I'm wondering who in this community is interested in approaching this YouTube journey will a little more mindfulness or a little slower. A tiny bit of reference: I've done hustle culture. I've burned out. I am looking for new, more sustainable ways to thrive and to surround myself with people who are also on that particular journey. I have a 30 year zen practice and bring that to this as well as an ethos of not rushing that really is coming to flourish after recovering from burnout 5 years ago. Prior,

My latest video (#5 of 5) just hit 1,000 views. It was published last weekend. It is the most recently published and has the most views. Thank you, Alexa and everyone here, for sharing your encouragement and wisdom. Video traffic is still a mystery, so I'm excited and thankful. Keep posting, everyone! 🌟

What's everyone's goal for the week? My aim is to complete 2 videos that will be banked and to relaunch my channel next Monday with a video I finished editing last night.

I know this is against the vibe of this whole community, but I am still not fully convinced. I see a lot of horrible videos. If you are reading this, no, this is not about your videos, it is about the other videos I see. 😁What I am used to from the past is that people put a lot of time and effort into improving their skills before they show their work to a larger audience. If you want to be an opera singer you first start under the shower, then you start taking singing lessons, you go to a singing school, and finally after years of training you do audition for an opera and you might be chosen to perform for in a concert hall. With YouTube this seems to be totally different. People are encouraged to show their work before they even know what they are doing. I am not encouraging people to wait until they are masters in movie making but, should you not just wait until your work is somewhat of a decent level? I see two advises all the time: First, people are advised to start posting, even when the content is horrible, and the second advice I see is to make good content. In my opinion you can't expect both things at the same time. If somebody post their first videos then these videos will be often of poor quality. These very poor videos will often not be shown to many people anyway. And don't get me wrong, I am all in favor of practicing with making video's. I practice every day, but so far I managed to only have 3 videos online that I think are worth watching for somebody who does not know me. I think the beauty for filming yourself without uploading it, is to give yourself some space to make mistakes and lowering the hurdle of even starting to step Infront of the camera. When I started I was scared as hell. I did it however in very small steps. First making videos of only 1 minute and deleting without viewing it. Then the videos started to become longer and I tried things out. Still however not with the pressure that it had to become an actual YouTube video. If I would have forced myself to start uploading my first videos, then I would never have started. The famous words by Think Media are "You just need to hit record", not "you just need to hit upload".