Well, hello, ladies and gentlemen and everyone listening good morning
This is a report of the week and I just wanted to make kind of a little bit of a random video
I guess it's the best way to put it. There we go. We're focused on my face. I
Was just kind of thinking, you know, it's the first well, it's not really the first of the year
We're at that new year right, it's January. We're getting into 2019. I don't know how different things really feel for you
It doesn't really feel too different for me
But this was I think it's a topic that's kind of on
on some of our minds and it's certainly I mean
It's crossed my mind enough to the point where I wanted to just get to the camera and talk about it for a little bit
New year right a new year and you get the new year's resolutions, right?
Maybe try to change this or improve upon that
You know, I never like using the word New Year's resolution. I always like just calling them goals, but you you can call it
Whatever you want, but for the new year, we'll try to set ourselves up for a goal.
Perhaps we'll try and take up one thing or start up something else
expand this work on that and
Maybe maybe feel it might end up being a creative pursuit. Maybe you want to start up a YouTube channel, right?
Well, you got a YouTube channel
You want to expand it got the soundcloud going doing a podcast a shortwave broadcast
you know or anything in between
Maybe it's work business school related, right? We want to grow it. We want to improve upon it and
You're trying to motivate yourself. You're trying to think. All right, how can I how can I get myself to do this?
One piece of advice and now this especially goes for the online world
but I think it can go really and apply to anything and just hear me out if you can a
Lot of people especially right with YouTube. Let's just let's just focus on YouTube. So it'll really be generalized. They'll say if you want to
Expand the YouTube channel or grow a channel, you know get your presence on YouTube out there
You gotta be relevant. You gotta you gotta be on top of the trends. You gotta use a high quality camera. Good lighting
You know and and and they give you this long list and I see the cat over there is going crazy
Maybe cats, you know, everyone likes cats right maybe throw a cat or some some sort of creature in the video, too
And they give you this checklist, right? You've probably seen it
One thing that you gotta remember you can do all of those things on that list
Right and you can get the lighting down you can get the editing down
You could get drone shots going and everything and you put so much
Work and effort and you were going down this checklist and I was trying to have this
personality and do this that and the other thing
Yet the results aren't what I wanted them to be
You know, you know what I mean
Maybe it's YouTube. Maybe you're trying to draw or sing or anything
And you put so much work into this and you were trying to do something and be something that's not working for you right? I
think there's one part that maybe they include maybe they don't but I think it's the most important thing of
Them all even more important than a good camera or a good microphone or a good paintbrush or anything
That most important thing is being genuine. I
Think that that is the most important thing
to any anything really being genuine and
with being genuine comes that drive and that
natural passion and energy
That will follow along with it
If you are just trying to play a part if you're saying well, I want to create a YouTube channel
to try to get big and
try and make a little money and
I'm not really gonna be me. I'm gonna be you know kind of this exaggerated
You know type of act
And you know try and really be be someone who I'm not
Maybe it'll work for you. Maybe you'll be able to do it. I think for many of us though, even if it takes off
it'll wear on you and
Eventually, it'll it'll get to you
Audiences will be able to tell it
You know the viewers the listeners
I mean, you know, what's real, you know, what's fake, you know?
When you see someone sitting in front of a camera
Whether they're doing something because they want to do it or because they feel like they have to do it
You can sense it and you can smell it
that most important thing is having that drive and that motivation to actually go ahead and do it and
Sometimes it's gonna take a little bit of trial and error. Don't get me wrong
You might have what you think is a great idea in maybe you want to do something with gaming, right?
So you start up your gaming channel, but you do the first video and it's just kind of a mess
You have this idea and you have this passion and you're trying to do something with it
But it's just not coming together the way that you thought it would in your mind
And that's okay. I want you to know that
Listen life. It's not always perfect
And it's not always a very very very seldom should I say is it smooth?
you're gonna have those bumps in the road and you're gonna have those ups and downs and
There might be times where you have that passion you have that Drive
Maybe it's just important to take a break or call it quits
But I think if you want to try to start or improve something for the new year
2019 the most important thing to have through all of it
No matter what. It's that passion that drive
sincere motivation willingness to do it
If you have that in my opinion, you will reach that goal. You will attain it
Because that drive is a source of energy in my opinion. It just it's it's self-replenishing. I
See that my radio show for instance, you know
sometimes of course the YouTube is primarily what I think a lot of you guys know me for
What I do focus a lot of time effort and energy, too
Sometimes I think back to a couple months ago and pardon the bird. That's just one of the haters
You know, but I think back to a couple months ago when I was doing the you know
The whole craze trying to find this burger from Burger King and I remember I was just taking it way too seriously
right
And it was just getting to me it was getting to me mentally and I remember I made a video kind of just venting about
It and getting it out there
Right. I
Also think to what what I also do right my radio show all right, you could call it a podcast
I guess it is a podcast but it goes out on the radio, right?
I've been doing that after four years straight now, I mean, that's where my passion lies. I love doing the radio show
I pick up the microphone each week. I record a one two sometimes three hours of talk some music
I see listeners from all around the world write in and and
Contacting and you know matter that passion is that drive and it's a lot of work. It's hours and hours
I got to edit it and I got to put it together and
Thousands of dollars each and every single month to pay for the air time
but that passion and that drive to do it if
It fuels it and it keeps it going and it makes all that time that effort and that expense well worth it
when you find that source of passion for whatever it is that you're doing this could even apply in my opinion to
Academics might be a little tougher
but I think it could still apply you can find a course or anything that you really have that genuine interest and
It'll go by a lot easier and a lot faster than you would anticipate it, but I think having that passion
And that's Drive such an important thing
really in my opinion the key to success in whatever your endeavors for 2019 are and
Like I was saying on that one final note. Just remember we have our ups we have our downs this year
It's gonna be a year of ups and downs for all of us
Remember that this is just part of the natural cycle of life. You might be at one of those lows right now
It'll pick up. It will get better
No one's perfect
It's okay to make mistakes
I've made so many we all do we just pick up the pieces keep on moving forward.
I just wanted to share a few words that have been on my mind
I didn't even know if I was gonna press record today. I kind of just wanted the step outside
I was thinking I don't know should I should I not and I just thought you know, this is the time to do it
so I set up the camera and
Here we are. I'm kind of layering it up
I wanted to finally break out this trenchcoat for the new for the new year and I just wanted to share some insight with all of you
On a final I guess final note now. This is the real final note
Coming up this Thursday
I was talking about the radio show and I want to address it for just a quick minute
This Thursday's radio show is going to be a truly unique one because it's gonna have your voice
It's gonna be going out to all across the world believe it or not. We even have listeners in Antarctica
15 shortwave frequencies
on TuneIn on SoundCloud, thousands of listeners
Where we're gonna be hearing your predictions for the year 2019. I mean, what do you think is gonna happen this year?
We're gonna be getting to them and we're gonna see really what what you the listener thinks is gonna happen this year
The show has yet to air and if you want to have a voice in it
Record an audio file could be an mp3 or anything of your prediction what you think is gonna happen this year
Send it to me.
vorwinfo@gmail.com and then this thursday when the new show airs
You might end up hearing your very own voice on the radio and we'll just get to as many predictions as we can
I'll be promoting it very vigorously. You can check out that new show and many others at
soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int
and many other ways as well. Thank you so much for watching this dear listeners
I hope you got something out of it and no matter what your goals your plans or endeavors are for 2019
I wish you the very best in my opinion
You got this. Thank you. Take care. I'm your host the report of the week