- So this is it!
This is the year that you're going after the life
you want, truly, time to look out for number one.
Before you dive in, I have something I wanna share with you
that is not only gonna help you figure out
if this project is right for you,
but to help you determine where to start.
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Good morning, good life, welcome back to AmyTV,
where we come together to help you
go after the life you want.
Finding your passion is a very exciting thing,
for those people who are lucky enough to encounter it.
But it's not actually so easy, it's not like you get
this notification on your phone, that's like,
(bell rings) Hey, you did it!
You found your passion!
Wouldn't that be nice.
It's actually much more complicated than that,
and sometimes you've even found your passion
and you don't even know it.
Regardless of where you stand in this situation
of finding your passion, let's talk about what it feels like
when it's a real one, a real passion of yours
and what you should do first, when you're ready to dive in.
I'm very excited because this episode of AmyTV
is also in partnership with our dear, dear,
dear friends at PicMonkey.
If not for their fabulous resource helping people
bring their ideas to life with affordable design,
I know personally I would not have been as effective
in going after my passion when I first started.
I use their tool on a daily basis,
there's always something to do with a picture in my life
and I know that your life is similar, so check it out.
Okay, if you're ready to follow your passion,
you know for darn sure you're fed up with the status quo.
Am I right?
You're probably excited about it, because you think
it's gonna change things up a bit.
We've actually talked about what it means
to find your passion, how to find your passion
in a previous episode of AmyTV before.
I will leave a link if you haven't seen it.
But from that conversation we know that finding it
means a process of investment and development.
This is a journey, right?
We take steps, we have experiences, all these things happen,
because just try to figure out our feelings
and our opinions on things
and thus maybe scratch the surface on figuring out
what we love and what we could be passionate about,
investment and development.
It is a process, and if it's a process
that you are willing to go all in on,
you have to remember one very big important detail:
It's not going to be easy.
Oh yes, Any, of course, it's not going to be easy,
I already know that, I'm still super pumped.
You say that now, but we all pretend to know,
that we can hang before we actually feel what it's like,
when the going gets tough.
We all pretend to know, we say things like,
If it were easy anyone would do it,
I'm willing to take on the challenge,
but then we hit that crossroad, we hit that obstacle,
we feel that failure and we think to ourselves,
Oh, this must not be it, or Oh, I am not cut out for this,
this is not for me.
It is a 100% understandable to question yourself,
but knowing that these things are going to happen,
knowing, not saying, Oh, they could,
no, they're gonna happen.
That's an important part of this process,
that you're signing up for when you follow your passion,
and that was a lot of Ps:
important part of this process (giggles).
It is going to happen no matter what.
You have to get that ingrained in your mind.
It is a part of the journey, we don't call things a journey
just because it sounds nice and pretty and tweetable, okay?
A journey is a journey, it comes with ups,
it comes with downs, and you are signing up for that.
But if you prepare for them, my goodness.
You will find that when you push through,
you will be considered one of the elite.
Now, here's what most people do
when they question their passion
and what I think you need to avoid completely,
they look for outside approval.
There's a really great quote on this from Marcus Aurelius,
who was one of the Stoics.
Here's what he said, "A person who doesn't know
"what the universe is, doesn't know where they are.
"A person who doesn't know their purpose in life,
"doesn't know who they are or what the universe is.
"A person who doesn't know any one of these things,
"doesn't know why they are here.
"So what to make of people who seek or avoid the praise
"of those who have no knowledge of where or who they are?"
When you are working so hard to discover this universe
and your purpose in it, why are you going to people
who probably haven't figured it out for themselves
to get answers on what you should be doing?
Even if they have figured out a few things
and they are quite wise in their own lane, they are not you.
You are simply putting out the energy into the world
that you want back.
Oh, I don't know how I'm feeling about this thing anymore,
it got a little hard and, you know, I'm not really sure,
what do you think?
Well, sounds like it's probably
not a good fit for you anymore.
That would be my response if you were coming to me
and poo-pooing everything you've been working so hard on,
and then you'll feel the need to defend it
and it's a never-ending cycle, because you keep putting out
what you want back, when you should just be having
the conversation with yourself.
I want you to skip all that, I want you just experience
what this thing is, figure out if it's right for you,
and the very first thing that you should do
is create something.
Most people won't do this, they like to just think things up
or try to find it on an Instagram feed
or just try to figure out if it's around,
if there's approval of it someplace else.
If you really want to show to tell what you want to do,
the value that you want to bring to the world,
make something, bring your vision to life.
When I'm feeling unclear about what I want
or what I'm trying to accomplish
or how I'm gonna make it valuable for other people,
I have to give it some kind of physical form,
even if that physical form is digital.
Visuals are such a good way to do this,
because a lot of us are visual learners,
and that's why you need quick and easy visual tools
to help you bring those ideas to life.
I wanna show you what I mean,
and we're going to pop over to the computer.
All right, when I want to create something,
I head over to PicMonkey.love/amy.
You can go here to claim your free month.
I like to start in the hub.
Being able to look at all these different things is okay,
all right, this is what we've done in the past.
How can we get creative?
What can we do a little bit differently?
And then go to templates.
Templates is a lot of fun,
because there is so much to choose from.
So I just like to scroll through here, get inspired,
these are the types of imagery and ideas
that get me pumped up when I'm trying to get re-energized
about creativity and what I'm passionate about.
Not to mention, when you think about best practices
on all these different social platforms,
these tablets are really really good examples
of what works well in all those places.
There's something about this, it's a YouTube thumbnail,
so maybe we can start to play around with this,
get some new ideas for how we can do thumbnails
in the future, get a little bit re-energized about that.
What I like about this one
is there's a number of things going on.
It looks complicated, it looks super collagey
and in your face, which is kind of fun,
when you're trying to grab attention,
and I love paint brush art.
This is not my color.
If you don't know what your brand colors are already,
then just, you know, sorta play around with the wheel here.
I happen to know, so I am gonna type in my dark pink,
this is just the hex code for it, it's the easiest way
to pull up the exact color, and for this one
let's make this one the lighter color,
that I love, which is this one,
it's starting to look like me a little bit.
So, something a little bit more unthemed for me
is not a yellow cup as much as a yellow lemon.
I really really like this one.
I wanna have some fun here, I wanna add an image of me
with the lemons, cute?
Yeah, but the photo's in the way of the other photo.
And I just want me in it.
So what I love about PicMonkey,
we are going to erase the background.
Oh my gosh, is that background eraser tool the best?
For somebody that's not a very good designer,
as you can probably tell,
that was insanely easy.
Don't wanna start working with these guys again.
This isn't my typical text, but we'll work with that
for just a minute, 'cause we're trying some new stuff.
So, we're gonna put here "Go After the Life."
So cute, okay, but I think I gotta adjust this text,
'cause it's not quite right, definitely not my vibe.
You want.
I'm a really big fan of combining fonts,
I know a lot of people hate it, but I'm a combiner, okay.
I've now officially used most of my brain space
on making this fun little graphic,
which definitely re-energizes me about my purpose
and what we're doing.
There, you have it!
I now have a fun YouTube thumbnail
and the photography is so fun, only one picture is mine,
I can kind of pull together the concept
and this is a really fun place to start,
when you're trying to figure out how to convey to the world
what you're passionate about.
Here's the moral of the story:
Whether you found your passion yet,
you haven't started on it yet
or you're struggling with it,
stop looking for outside opinions
and start making something
that's gonna make you better understand
what you're trying to do.
Show you something that's going
to make the journey worthwhile,
show you something that makes you want to learn more,
something that keeps you interested in this thing,
that's a passion.
I promise you, if it's real that feeling will not go away,
no matter how hard the work gets, no matter how intricate,
no matter how much you have to become experts
in a million different things, just to be able to do it,
it won't get old.
It'll get tough, but it won't get old.
Question of the day: If you could show the world
what you're passionate about, what would you create?
Share that in the comments below.
Thanks again for PicMonkey for being the partner
in this episode of AmyTV
and for being a great partner of the show overall,
I love working with them,
they have a dream team working over there,
and I swear, every single day
they come out with something new and keep telling me like,
Oh, we just updated give this, give it try,
I mean such real time and just amazing people,
and I love when there's good people behind great work.
So definitely check that out,
there's a link in the description below,
so you can get one month free of their tool,
I promise you, you're not gonna go back once you have it,
it's amazing what you can create.
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I love my color block sweater,
it reminds me of calendar blocking.
That'll do, that'll do, pig, a literal pig,
(chuckles) I do look like a pig.
What I'm trying to say is very simple,
but I've overworded it.