Got some new equipment, what do I do?
Handle
Someone just said that they saw this picture posted in a group and they want to know if it's derek halpern me
This is funny, what is it?
Outfit look at the hair look up
Is this is this what you think of me is this what the internet thinks I look like that guy
Haircut I
Would never wear that outfit
Well to be fair you did just put out a video about you wearing a Bruce Lee shirt
And I even made some really weird clothing choices where I wore like this Bruce Lee button-down shirt
and there's other weird shirt with a
Line going through it super strange is your day rude. Yeah my day is ruined
I'm glad that you find this funny is the sound thing even on oh
Boy
It's now I want to talk about invest in yourself as you know my videographer has been coming over daily
partly because we're doing these daily vlogs so he needs to come over film edit etc and
He keeps taking over my office
That's mark. That's my video guy. He has commandeered my home office
He keeps taking my monitor from me, and I like a big 27-inch monitor
Because it helps me have my research on one side my writing on another side. It just helps me focus he comes over today
He says alright. I need to monitor. I'm like sitting there. I'm like trying to write something. I'm like man
You know what let's go buy monitor and to do it. I'm so invested in this daily vlog
I went into a Barlow Genesis
And now I'm back I
Used to be
For the lack of the better word cheap when it came to investing in myself
And I'll never forget the conversation I had with my friend that changed my outlook on all of it it was
2007 at this point I was still running a celebrity gossip blog, and it was really popular
Let's make it a ton of money, and I was doing it from this piece-of-crap laptop
That would always crash, and it was funny because at this point there weren't things like autosave in WordPress
So if your if your computer crashed you lost your blog post super annoying number
I was complaining to my friend Chris, and he's like listen man
You're making a ton of money on the web you have to invest in getting some good equipment and at this point
I'm a dumb 21 year old so I know good equipment
22 I didn't know good equipment then so I just thought
Expensive, so I went to the store I bought a Mac Pro the fastest Mac Pro available to 30-inch Apple Cinema
displays and a Herman Miller Aeron chair in hindsight
It was a waste of money because I only use Microsoft Word and a browser
You don't need Pro video editing equipment for for writing blog posts
Whatever anyway. What was interesting about it though?
Was is it did help me increase my productivity?
And it did help me not have my computer crash on me every few minutes and that kind of opened my eyes to the idea
that
Sometimes when you're working on a business there are going to be things that you need to invest in sometimes
There's small expenses sometimes there be expenses, but you should always
Choose to do it if the investment is going to make your life easier. Let me give you another example I
Have two chargers for my laptop. I have one charger that stays in my backpack
I have another charger that stays near my desk
It seems so simple, but as you know I like to work on coffee shops a lot not right now. It's snowing outside
But I like to work from coffee shops a lot and
One of the most annoying things for me was to pack up my stuff go to the coffee shop walk like six or seven blocks
And then pull everything out and realize I forgot my charger. It was like ruined my day, so I bought another charger
I also have two Mouse Mouse's Mouse's
He says me says. I've got two mice
Whatever I got two a police
Look you're here to learn about business not speaking right I got two Apple mices I
Got two mouse what is it called?
All right listen I got two white things that sell from Apple and move the pointer on the screen
I got two of them one stays in my backpack
One stays at home again the reason why is because when I would go to the coffee shop I would get frustrated
And I never wanted to have that frustration again, so I invested in two chargers so today. We just bought this monitor
It's actually they said was a pro gaming monitor
BenQ monitor for eSports we're we don't actually don't do eSports, but apparently these gaming monitors are good for video editors as well
So that's what we got and I'm gonna unbox it today, and I'm probably gonna judge them because anytime I've ever bought anything
that's not an Apple product I
Pretty much hated the packaging and it's annoying so let's see what happens
All right that's nice
I've already failed Oh
One of the things you'll soon find now that I'm daily vlogging is I'm really good at a lot of things actually I
Always tell people to quote um
99% useless
But that 1% when I'm not I'm dangerous and now that I'm vlogging you're gonna see that is like actual reality
like I
struggle to turn on my TV or know what food to eat in my
Refrigerator or know whether or not something's expired like I'm the type of person that gives himself food poisoning all the time because I don't
Know what the right food to eat is
But anyway, so we as you see I struggle with a box here
Alright so that's a design flaw right there
Why would you have this in this box ready to be to fall out and break? I?
Guess other people probably would have known to open it that way, but maybe not me
Alright, so we're just gonna take I always like to take everything out first and look at it
This is actually not an uncommon thing to do by the way if you're ever selling a physical product
One of the things you should know is that when people buy a physical product that has multiple pieces or like let's say you sell
a
Physical product that's a bunch of books or pack up a package of workbooks the first thing. They'll do is. They'll open up everything
Take everything out of the box and pile it and look at it. This is important to know because as
They start to unpack everything
Most people believe that the user experience begins in the box
But when there are multiple things in the box the user experience actually begins after they take everything outside the box
So we're gonna take everything out of the box
Here
All right, this is where something might break I
Go to the gym now, oh, it's light
feels cheap
dude, we should got that LG big widescreen monitor I
Know you were used to my video guy was complaining that distorts images, and he didn't want it
But it's like maybe I could have used it
You know it's pretty uneventful, actually this packaging wasn't so bad. It's pretty easy. We got this what do I do?
Handle
All right
So I keep on packing in here
let's see what this bad boy looks like I
Got him a big monitor because I wanted him to be able to see more of me
Handle all right bro, bro you I know you want me to set this up right now
But like this is where people are gonna. See how stupid I am cuz like I don't know what like
I'm gonna need help alright
So we need to set this monitor up right now and the office is back to being a mess even though
I cleaned it myself
Now now the video guys back and naturally as I said in one of the earlier episodes my video guy's a mess
He's back the places. I'm slob. It's a slob so it's it
It's just it's a pigsty again, and I don't know what it is, but he just doesn't know how to be clean
So like we have to go straighten this up set this monitor up
I'm not gonna bore you while I do this because I'm probably gonna get frustrated probably gonna
Yell at the video guy probably gonna step on the dog like all these things are gonna happen right now
And I don't want it found so I'll see you in a minute. So we finally set up the monitor
You got to take a look at this it looks great
Pretty sick, right
I'm still getting used to like having someone around all the time though. I mean I've been working
from my home office for years
And I actually had an office space in Manhattan that I had for a little while maybe about a year
And I didn't like it. I don't like having to leave the house to be honest with you, but
now that I have someone coming over, it's
It's a little weird
You know cuz I go through my day, and now there's just someone there
Pointing a camera at me
Trying to record stuff
But you know what this is the commitment that I've made for two thousand 18 to try and make one of the best
channels on YouTube for entrepreneurs and business owners
so do me a favor like this video leave a comment talking about your computer setup and
subscribe to my channel
Show me how much you love this new found effort. I'm putting into video, and I'm gonna keep doing it. I'll see you later