A little bit of Youtube ~ Where to start in life

First off the title is a bit happy clappy, I only added "in life" because it seemed philosophical. It also tickles our self-help happy place and makes a person think ooh this might be good.

In fact it probably won't be so get your hopes back in the gutter.

_{If I Started a YouTube Channel in 2023, I'd Do This}

The first video I happened on is from Ali Abdaal, and I think he mainly came into my recommendations because there is this fast talking red head girl I sometimes listen to for 2 out of 10 minutes.

They do fall in the sel-improvement niche but tend to have some practical things they discuss. In the above video he is mainly covers some steps to getting into Youtube and just deciding how to approach creating content based on how involved you wish to be.

It is a pretty good breakdown of how to approach things systematically.

In it he mentions systems though which is something that always resonates with me. I personally do try build systems albeit like a mad scientist haphazardly.

On a side note I clicked through to the next video and half listened so think it has good correlation if only based on title. When it comes to starting I am the worst, see my ten million posts about procrastination, once I get started though I am pretty good at going given; I have implemented a system.

Now quite a bit of it is habit forming but if a task seems tedious, dull or just intimidating actually having a system to completing it effectively will get you to the parts you like sooner.

Not all things are completely tedious but all things have tedium as a trait.

Not to mention our attention spans are shot so we can easily turn the most exciting things we like to do into chores.

Ths is where systems come in, not only for efficiency but also for motivation in achieving something then having the will to continue. Instead of stopping before the good part which usually can even be the hard part.

A trick there is to learn to like doing the hard things.

Being tired is not just a physical trait, it is an emotion and realising that feeling tired or drained is an emotional response helps work through it; Or to decide if it is healthier to quit.

Personally, I don't tend to get all giddy about the future or even acknowledge it half the time. I do however have an innate view of it whenever I speak or think of planning.

It may not be concrete and it may not always be realistic because like how scents can conjure nostalgia very strongly an abstract view of what I want to come next can conjure a feeling of certainty.

I think starting most things are like that, it is the drive we have in the beginning once we get going. Even so a person can get complacent and let things slip and no matter how certain you feel if you don't act on it that glimmer of the end will fade.

Now say you keep the glimmer, it shines brighter and brighter, things have changed it is vastly different than when you started but remember you never had a precise outcome you only had the certainty of a beneficial outcome.

In the end that is so obviously simple to just keep going and yet so hard to know why you are going.

Then nap... or don't