We always hear successful people say "Think Long-Term. Think about the next 10 years. Build for the next 30 years." Yada yada yada! Yeah, it's all well and good but young guns who are between 18-28 like me can't really do that easily. And I think I know why. Recently I was reading something and planning my moves for the next 10 years when I realized I am 22 & 10 years is almost half of my life on this planet. Half of my life feels like an eternity. Yet the older I get the faster time is passing. I realized, from my perspective, 10 years is seeming like an eternity to plan for...To work hard for...To save money and to stay disciplined for... But when I am 50-60 years old, 10 years is just 15%-20% of my life. This made me understand why young people can't really think long-term. For someone who is 18 and just graduated high school, thinking 10 years ahead is like asking him to prepare for more than half of how long he lived so far. But the older you get, and the more you live, the quicker you realize 10 years is nothing. Yet keeping your head down and working for 10 years will put you ahead of 99% of the population. Planning properly and working for what feels like an eternity at this age will give me freedom for the rest of my life is what I am telling myself now. Thanks for reading. As you were.

/// Consistency isn't everything. Here's two examples: - This guy has uploaded 2,000,000 times and isn't the biggest channel in the world. - I play chess regularly. But I haven't got better in years. You see, most people misinterpret the 10,000 hour rule. It's not enough just to do something for 10,000 hours. You have to do 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. 1. Quantity + Deliberate Practice → Quality 2. Consistency > Intensity 3. Consistency develops ability So, consistency isn't everything. But if you combine consistency with deliberate practice... Given a long enough time-frame. It's impossible NOT to succeed. /// What exactly is consistency? In order to become consistent, you must understand what consistency is. Consistency is to continue doing regardless of the outcome of your doing. Some people do something, get no results, so stop doing the thing. Other people do something, get a lot of results, so stop doing the thing. /// How do you become consistent? I'm not as consistent as I'd like to be. Here's how I plan to change that: You become consistent by swapping attachment to outcome, with attachment to the process. You stop focusing on what you can't control (results). And start focusing on what you can control (actions). This becomes much easier when you realise that if the results aren't coming, it's either because you haven't given it enough time, or because you're not yet good enough. So the solution to this is to: 1. Keep going (consistency) 2. Get better (deliberate practice) If you do that for long enough, then the results will come. Understanding this makes it far easier to swap attachment to outcome, with attachment to actions. /// BONUS Aaaaaaaalso, it's far easier to be consistent if you Trust The Process. If you go to the gym regularly, do progressive overload, eat enough calories and protein... You're gonna put on muscle.

Over the period of time I've been on the YouTube platform I've noticed something that most big YouTubers have in common, they are amazing story tellers and that is a quality I seem to lack. The ability to tell compelling stories is a skill that actually even transcends just YouTube itself, it can be used in a lot of spheres in life ranging from sales to asking a girl out lol. I was wondering does anyone here have links to resources or videos that actually help teach and break down story telling for beginners or something?

So I need some help. I've been consistently posting videos for 3 months now... yet I feel compared to most people I'm making zero progress. I only have 8 subscribers, which is way less than a lot of people who have like 50 subs and have almost no uploads at all. I just feel so frustrated that no one cares, and I'm kinda just relying on dumb luck, that one video works well, and I just go from 8 to 100 subs, or something like that. My plan was to focus on just the main important things (recording the video for the most part, zero editing), and then as I gain money from the channel, I will pay someone/or more to edit the videos. But that is going to be a LONG time if my grow rate continues I feel as if I'm just doing something wrong, that I make videos teaching about what I learned in the past, but I'm never going to make any $$$ from it because no one seems to care. What do you think I should do? Keep on doing what I'm doing, no editing, and hope and pray? Or should I just edit my own videos, do EVERYTHING and be a business of one?

Hey guys! I'm Adam and I'm new here. I was searching around for ways to create a COMMUNITY for my personal development YouTube channel (10ksubs). I was thinking about some of the benefits of a FREE community versus a PAID community ($27/monthly). Benefits of FREE: - more people join (no barrier to entry) - this gets more people on the email list Benefits of PAID ($27/monthly): - community members are more engaged and interested - feels more exclusive - can do monthly LIVE CALLS (because the community base is paying... that reduces the risk of trolling in the live calls) - members get MORE out of it BECAUSE they're paying for it (more use) - side-income to help support the business Considering that this group is free... and that I'm using it now... probably is a big point for the FREE group. Any thoughts or advice would be helpful... THANKS!