Hey, what's up? It's Derek Halpern, and you're watching my new daily vlog.
This is gonna be a lot of fun! So, make sure you like and subscribe to my channel! Today
I want to take you behind the scenes of why I
Started this daily vlog and what I have planned to share with you over the course of the following year.
But first I've been publishing some videos over the last few weeks and people keep asking me
Why are you always working at your kitchen table? The truth is let me show you. Look at this
It's currently a slob. It's a slob stuff. Well. I actually don't prefer to work with my kitchen table
That's Mark. That's my video guy. He has commandeered my home office
I don't know what to do! The only person who seems to like it is my dog Mr Bities. Hey Mr
Bities. I hate my life right now. Why are video people so messy?
I know I was bagging on my video guy in one of the videos and let me tell you why I'm gonna get rid of
this guy
Because he just doesn't know how to clean up after himself. So, as you can see I'm filming myself today
So if I get frustrated at any point with this camera and switch to my iPhone!
That's why I've got a full-time videographer his name is Mark, and he's gonna be doing most of the filming
But I was telling him that I want to start this vlog on January 1st
I don't want to wait til January 2nd or January 5th
I want the first day of the year to be the first day of my new video
And he told me is like well Derek. You're gonna have to film yourself
For today because I'm home visiting my family! So, here I am.
Filming myself now. You might be wondering why I want to do this daily vlog in the first place
It's a ton of content
Didn't you always tell people that they should create less and promote more and you know what the truth is I do?
Think you need to spend more time promoting your work
But the big reason why I want to do a daily vlog is because of this right now
There are a lot of people lying to you
They're trying to showcase
How great their life is through fancy Instagram pictures or fancy videos and you always see them on the beach
or do all these cool things and
They're trying to persuade you to believe that's what life is really like for an online business owner
But I'm here to tell you it's not like that. I actually published a funny video on my Instagram channel hold on take a look
Ah
Well I'm gonna showcase so with behind the scenes of
entrepreneurship especially when you want to start an online business or a YouTube channel
Or it doesn't matter what you're trying to start so I want to show you what it's really like to do it
That's why I'm doing this vlog today. I'm just starting something new I want to see what it's like to document my life
I want to see what it's like to take you behind the scenes of different things that I run I wanted to see what it's
like
Personally to capture some of the things that I do on a regular basis like have meetings with some other
Entrepreneurs or go to lunches or go to coffee shops you might have seen my famous coffee shop stories
How great would it be if I could get one of those incidents on camera that said one of the things I'm most nervous about
This vlogging thing is is it gonna be interesting to anyone. Yeah, all right?
I might take you behind the scenes of a marketing promotion or a campaign or kind of showing you all these different things about
Entrepreneurship, but is that really gonna be interesting and can I make it interesting every day of the week
I mean just thinking about it is stressing me out. Oh
However, I'm still committing to this daily vlog because I think it's important remember reading an Ira Glass quote recently actually where
He said that when people have an idea they want to create something they get into it because they have good taste
Right they have good taste for creativity but most beginners
Spend the first few years
Upset with their own work and the reason why they spend most of these few years
Upset with their own work is because their taste is better than their output and this
disconnect between what they like and what they're actually
Producing makes them hate their own work
And then he went on to explain how most beginners
Then quit they quit in this beginning part of creation and I get it when you want your work to be great
It's very easy to just do it once and then look and think to yourself. This is horrible
I mean you might know that I've done a lot of videos on YouTube
And we've amassed a lot of views already vlogging is different from me, but we're all pretty good at video
I mean take a look today is the day where I tell you all about
Social triggers in cider as you can see the quality wasn't that good my delivery wasn't that great in my hair
It was horrible however
It was good enough and then over time as you can actually take a look at my youtube
Channel the videos got better now. This is the mindset that I'm having when I'm trying to create this vlog
I just know that it's cannot be that interesting, but it's gonna get better and let's see how long my last
Maybe I last five days and say screw this I'm never doing it again. Maybe I last forever who knows
Now you might be wondering why I'm being so vulnerable in this vlog and the truth is like I said a lot of people lie
To you about entrepreneurship, and I want to do my best
To try and showcase what it's really like starting something new
Even when you're someone who's known for doing really good work already
It's always interesting because beginners will always say well Derrick
It's easy for you to start something new because you already have a file you already have credibility
But let me tell you something when you're starting something new and you already have a lot more
People looking at you doing it it starts to mess with your head and for me
I'm not gonna say
I'm sitting here thinking that I'm gonna create a bunch of haters as a result of one video like this
But I will say that I'm concerned about doing good work. Who wouldn't right? We all want to do good work
I'm hoping that the more. I do this daily vlog you're gonna start to realize that
Whether you're someone who made 50 million dollars or someone who just made $5 you still suffer from the same
psychology that trips everyone else up the difference is that
Someone who makes it off and overcomes it someone who doesn't make it doesn't even try to fix it
so that's gonna wrap this first daily vlog if you liked it you like the honesty if you love the
Transparency do me a favor
Can you just press the like button let me see through numbers that you like what I'm trying to do here
Then also leave a comment below and talk about something that you're thinking about starting this year
Let me know in the comments if you're starting a new business. Let me know if you're launching a new product
Just tell me what you're up - I'm curious
genuinely curious
So do me a favor like the video subscribe to my channel leave a comment right now, and I'll see you in the next video