Well, hello, ladies and gentlemen and everyone watching
I am your host TheReportOfTheWeek and welcome to this newest video
Obviously like you could tell this isn't one of the yet the world's most iconic
food reviews
Rather, I just wanted to make a little bit of a change and do a random video
Because sometimes I just want to get in front of the camera and talk, you know
babble on blabber on
you know, you know what I mean and just talk about something random for a little bit and
I guess the first thing that I wanted to bring up
Was the subject of change now that kind of makes sense?
Obviously if you look at me right now, I think there's one thing
That comes to mind immediately
Right, you know it? Like it's one of those things that you're thinking it. I'm thinking of it
We're on the same page, right? You're thinking review bruh
Tell me about the flying fish
But that's not what it was
Believe it or not. I know I got I got you. I know we all thought that it was but it wasn't
Instead you might have noticed. Wow. He's got a different shirt on than I remember and his hair
What's going on?
Well, I'll tell you I changed it up. I made a little bit of a change
I went out because the other day I noticed that some of my dress shirts especially the the long-sleeved ones
We're kind of getting a little worn. You know, they were just
The end of their natural lifespan was approaching rather rapidly
I could see that some of the fabric was getting a bit thin and you know soon
You'll end up getting a hole wherever and you know, that's not good
So I needed to go get a few different shirts and I was searching and searching online
I just couldn't find the type that I wanted. So I went over to the thrift store
I think was a goodwill and sure enough found what I was looking for and the secondly I I just
Wanted to go without the product today and what you get is what you get
Change though is one of those things I talked about it in my podcast
fairly recently
But it was one of those subjects that
If I'm still thinking about it, and I want to discuss it further then I might bring it on in video form as well
Change is one of those things. That is I mean it it's such a massive thing it
Is it is huge and I think it affects everything because there are all types of changes
There are all different ways change can occur
Change can be good can be bad can be neutral right? You can make the change someone else can it could happen
Naturally, it could be very forced could be sudden could be over such a span of time
You don't even notice it but it's something that is constantly happening
to many differing degrees and
The way I wanted to kind of bring up the subject of change anyway
on the most appropriate level I think especially for
This video is from the the creative standpoint
Like let's say just in terms of YouTube in general where you want to do something online or whatever it is, right? I
Think one of the most important aspects of the creative process is change
Because if you're doing the same exact thing over and over and over and over
you'll kind of get yourself caught up in a loop and sometimes while having that little bit of a base that
generalized routine can be
Reassuring in some senses. It can get kind of, you know old and tired pretty fast
one thing that I know that I've gotten caught up on in the past is
when I fell into that routine of
Doing something a certain way so many times
when the time came to make adjustments
Make changes it
felt weird felt unnatural
I
Think that kind of makes sense when you really think about it
Because I had been doing the same thing the same way for so long
I kind of just fell into the sense that all right. This is the routine
This is what I do and I'm just gonna keep doing it that way when you break the routine
Well now it feels kind of weird
Feels almost like I'm doing something that I don't know if I really should be doing I don't how well that's gonna go over
Maybe some of you know where I'm kind of coming from there
and I think sometimes the lack of change will get to us and
Before you know it we're kind of stuck in a loop
We don't really want to do anything because now it doesn't really, you know, I don't know how certain I feel about it
I just want you to know this one thing I
Said it in my podcast and I'll say it again here
Granted change can be scary. I think kind of delving into the unknown doing something that you've never done before
Can lead to those feelings of uncertainty
But always know this change is not always a bad thing
Yes, I know change can't always be a good thing either
That's why you're taking that leap. But just because you're doing something that you haven't done before in the creative process
Doesn't mean that you're doing something wrong or that it's something bad or that it's always going to turn out
Terrible a lot of the times it's quite the opposite. I
Remember when I first was trying to explore the concept of doing random videos
this was going back to 2017 and
Before that I largely was just doing food reviews, you know
Just one food reviewer after the next after the next so that's really all that
I was basing this YouTube channel on and obviously that's what it's known for the best but I do other type of videos as well
and when I first did a
Random video and you could even find it. I I did this video about Denny's and it was kind of like a food review
But not really it was more like just a long-form talk kind of like this
where I just went to Denny's for the first time and and shared the experience and
I had it edited and everything. It was ready to go. I had spent hours on this thing
I mean
I was just trying to edit it and do the transitions and I was doing something that I had never done before and
by the time this project was complete and
All of these hours were spent on it and it was time to release it on YouTube
I was ready to delete it believe it or not. I felt this sense of apprehension
Where I really I was concerned because this was something that I had never done before
It was a type of video that I had never really done or promoted or publicized on this channel
I was scared quite frankly
I didn't know how it was going to go over what people would think about it how it would be received
would people hate it would they would
Destroy the channel
Would it kill this channel off or would it go over well?
and all of those uncertainties those what-ifs were just swirling through my mind and I was ready to just say, you know
What forget it I'm not so sure how it's gonna go over
I'm just gonna pursue the safe route and I'm just gonna keep doing everything that you know
I've been doing for the last if you have several years and I'm just gonna delete this video because it's just I
Don't know how this change is going to go over
And I remember I I felt this
This worry this fear, but I didn't delete it. I made it public
I released it and I said to myself. You know what I
Wanted to do this. This was a new idea that I wanted to explore that
I wanted to carry out I had fun with it. I
Enjoyed making it editing it putting it together
Don't just give it up once you're done with it
release it and
if it floats it floats and
If it sinks it sinks
but in the end
It was an idea that you wanted to do again talking about the creative process
Something that you wanted to pursue that you wanted to carry out you did it you had fun with it
Don't just give up now
So I didn't and I released it and sure enough
It went over very well now
That's not the safe that happens every single time that I make a change or do something new with a youtube channel
there are times where I'll make a video and I'll put it out and
You know people just won't be interested in it and that's fine, too
one thing that you have to realize when it comes to ideas and
Trying out new things not everything is going to work out but just because something doesn't work out
Doesn't mean you should give up then
Don't you know?
With change, sometimes you'll run into a dry spell when you may not have any new ideas to try to execute and put forth
However, one thing to keep in mind is if you give up you're kind of closing that opportunity it's done
Don't do that could always take a break if you want
But but just I would not recommend giving up if you have new ideas
I
Recommend pursuing them give them a shot
Like I said in the end
It might not always
Conform to the vision that you you kind of expected it to be and it might not be received the way that you
Expected it to be but if you never give it a shot and you never try it out
You will never know what the outcome of it will ever be
even if you've been doing the same thing for so long
Don't let that familiarity
Lull you in and make you feel like this is the only thing you ever have to do
Because that's what you feel like your channel is and that's the only thing you can do now forget about that break that mold
Just make what you want to make and if it goes over
Well, it goes over if it doesn't it doesn't in the end
The most important thing in terms of creating is being happy and enjoying what it is that you're doing
I was really prompted to make this video recently because there is another change that came about
In regards to the podcast that I do as a matter of fact
That's probably where the most changes that I've been making that have been going down have taken place
If you are curious, you know, just get it out there right since I brought it up. You could find that
youtube.com/vorwpodcast
but anyway, that show that I have been doing
started out in
2015 as a completely different thing, you know nowadays. It's a talk
Oriented podcast. I started it out as a music request show that was going out on a shortwave radio
to make that change from a music show on
international shortwave
To a podcast that's talked only on
YouTube and
Spotify and iTunes and all these platforms that in of itself is a major change
I mean that is almost a 180-degree change
completely switching up the format switching up the broadcast mediums all of that and
A few months ago when I was really changing the emphasis of the show from music based programming to talk based programming
Again, because I had been doing the same thing
For so long I wasn't sure how it was gonna go over how it was going to be received
And again, I felt that type of nervousness anxiety and apprehension
When it came down to it, but I went ahead with that change and I reminded myself
You know what? This is something that you want to do
This is a change that you want to make just go out there pursue it and what happens happens?
So I did I made the format change and sure enough. It went over just fine
And now the show is more talk based
I still kind of you know
I I do how to do a little bit of a music show still that goes out on the shortwave
But largely my efforts are focused toward the talk programming and I have so much fun with it lately
I've been trying to invest in better equipment better
Resources so I can improve it make it even better and I've just been having a great time doing it each week
Sitting down just getting to the microphone talking about whatever is on my mind
Whatever is going on in the world and I even take some listener viewer-submitted topics as well
And you know the show is just a lot of fun to do and it's a change that I'm very glad that I made
In the end. I just wanted to get in front of the camera here today and just say you know what?
Change is okay. I know that sometimes has a stigma behind it and
We ourselves get scared of it sometimes because we've been doing something the same way for so long
but just know this when you're creating something when you're doing something and you have a new idea I
Encourage you to pursue that idea. It might not always work out the best, but if you don't pursue it
You will never know what the outcome of it is. So thank you for watching
I'm your host the report of the week and if you are interested
Be sure to check out my newest podcast recently upgraded the microphone setup
Let me know what you think how you think it sounds the VORWPodcast. It's the name of the youtube channel
Could also find it on iTunes Spotify
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SoundCloud just by searching
VORW
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Thank you for watching do take care and i'll see you again in a couple days with a review. That's all