- Give yourself a break.
Hey everybody.
This is Roberto Blake.
I'm from robertoblake.com,
helping you create something awesome today.
Today, we're gonna talk about
how to not burn out on YouTube,
and how not to quit.
This is something that's an interesting topic,
a lot of you have actually been asking me
things about this in the comments of other videos.
And I wanted to talk about it today with you.
Burnout can be something that a lot of YouTubers
suffer from, a lot of them end up cutting
back on their content, some of them take months off.
We've seen that with some big YouTubers recently actually,
and there are some people who quit
and just give up altogether,
and it's not just because they don't
have people viewing, or watching,
or subscribing, or they're not making money.
A lot of people actually just quit
because they don't enjoy making YouTube videos anymore.
And there are a lot of reasons for that.
For one thing, I think too many YouTubers,
or maybe you're watching this,
they get discouraged easily by their views
and subscriber counts and things like that.
They take it entirely too seriously
instead of just remembering what
they got into YouTube for in the first place.
Or, even worse, some of them got into YouTube
specifically for views and subscribers
and fame and quick money and it's not happening,
so they, again, quit.
And, you know, I'm gonna be a little bias here,
I think maybe some of those people should quit.
A lot of you are going to be completely disgusted with that,
because of the YouTube creator community ethos of
"Oh, don't tell people to quit" or
"Oh, don't tell people to give up on their dreams
"of being a YouTuber, how dare you,
"like, who are you to tell somebody
they can't make it because you made it"
and blah blah blah into fitting.
Look, I'm a pragmatist, I've never
pretended that I'm not pragmatist,
or a business person.
I've been a person that champions
and encourages creativity more than anything.
But here's the thing, I'm also a person who's
suffered from severe depression, anxiety,
and suicidal thoughts and I would never
encourage someone to keep doing
something that they hate.
Insanity is repeating the same thing over
and over and over again,
expecting a different result,
and I don't want people to drive themselves insane
over YouTube, or having an unhealthy fixation with it,
or anything that goes along with it.
I think that that's really bad.
We've seen YouTubers burn out,
we've seen YouTubers, you know,
ruin and destroy their lives, their relationships,
we've seen YouTubers whose relationships were built
in this community come to an end because they
obsessed over YouTube, and that's problematic.
I think you need to have a healthy approach
and a healthy perspective here,
and sometimes that means stepping away.
Sometimes it means stopping and taking stock
of what's really important in your life.
Now, as for how not to get burned out,
and how not to quit,
part of the answer is to not focus
so much on the things that you want
in terms of acknowledgement
and accolades in YouTube,
and to, again, do what you love
and what you enjoy, and to take a step back
and take a break from it and to fill your life
with other things.
You should travel, you should spend time
with your friends and family,
you should do the things that give you a positive
outlook on life.
If you're constantly stressing about
did you get a YouTube video out,
did somebody say something negative about you,
did you lose a ton of subscribers,
if you focus on those things,
you let it consume you.
You're going to burn out.
You're not going to enjoy this anymore.
If YouTube starts becoming a chore,
instead of something that you enjoy or love,
it is time for a break, before it breaks you.
It's time to step away from the camera,
step away from editing bay,
and do the things that bring you
the most happiness and the most joy in your life
that have nothing to do with YouTube.
It's time to not watch other YouTubers,
it's time to not look at who is doing what,
or do the comparison game,
it's time to take a break from social media,
and people showing you their highlight reel
of their life that has nothing to do with the reality
of their struggles behind the scenes
or what's going on their mind, no no no no no.
Step back. Take a break.
Put a kibosh on all those things.
And guess what, this isn't limited to YouTube,
this is like real life advice that I'm giving here
for anything, like, there's a reason that
sometimes I will, like, have to do trips
and I will desperately try not to turn
them into working vacations, that's hard for me.
I'm a workaholic.
This is advice I have to take for myself.
One of the cool things I started doing again,
believe it or not, is, I never share it with
you guys in social media for a reason is,
I've gone back to my sketchbook,
and I have never been happier since
I've gone back to my sketchbook,
because I'm drawing for me,
it was one of my first loves.
I'm back to what makes me the happiest person
in the world doing it and not being judged
in social media for it, not worrying about likes
on Instagram, I'm doing it just for me.
I do not need anyone clapping up or applauding for me,
because I did something cool in my sketchbook,
I have no interest in ever sharing any of it
with any of you guys,
because it's something I'm keeping for me.
There's an over temptation to overshare.
We're called the overshare generation
and it's a little bit true.
It's unfortunate but it creates
this enormous pressure on people
that they have to share anything or it didn't happen.
They have to share everything, or it didn't matter.
Pics or it didn't matter.
Likes if it didn't matter. Views or it didn't matter.
Subs or it didn't matter.
You can't predicate your entire life
on acknowledgment from other people.
Instead, it has to be about what you feel
your accomplishing, what your growth is,
and whether or not you feel happy in the moment.
And so, my advice to not burn out on YouTube,
is to remember what got into YouTube in the first place,
to do other things that you love, to have a grounded
routine in life, and to not obsess over anything
on this platform.
It doesn't matter.
If YouTube shuts down tomorrow, you still have
to find a way to live with yourself,
and to have a life after work.
I think it's important to put that into context.
So the best way not to quit is YouTube
is to not take it too seriously,
take a break, remember why you got into it
in the first place, to do other things that you love,
fill your life up with things that are not YouTube,
and just remember.
If you're not enjoying something,
if it's becoming a chore,
it's probably something you need to re-evaluate
and re-question your reasons behind doing it.
There are so many of that wanna turn this into
a job and you have to remember the far majority
of people hate their jobs, like they just do, that's a fact.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this video,
if you have questions, leave those in the comment section,
I hope that this, like, really gave you some perspective,
I want you guys to have a healthy balance
of how you operate as a creator.
I think that's something that's so important,
I don't think it's talked about enough.
You have to have proper mental health,
if you don't have that, then you don't really
have much of anything else to look forward to
because this will mess you up more than anything
if you let it, and so I encourage you to stay
sane and stay healthy,
and that means stepping away from YouTube
or quitting it altogether
you should really think about that.
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