So I launched my new vlog and everything broke. Everything is broken!
Okay, here's what actually happened
So I released my first video and my friend who runs a very large YouTube channel told me that fast views matter
Especially when you want your video to get some more organic engagement, so I did the next logical thing
I emailed the video to my email list and a few minutes later
I checked my video views and it was like fifty one views
That's it why I check back a few minutes later, and there's only 52 news
So I checked my email and I noticed that the email never got sent
My email provider had a weird outage and my email got delayed sending by almost an hour
I finally commit to doing something big like a daily vlog for 2018 and Here I am
Things are going wrong. Is it a sign? No?
I don't believe in science, and then I get a message from my videographer
sup dude
How he's not gonna be back for another two days
Look. I'm no master with a camera. I'm sitting here holding this camera talking to you right now. It's probably a little shaky
I'm not the best here
This is why I have a full-time
Videographer and here I am trying to launch a new vlog and everything is going wrong
I mean look you can see this camera quality look at this video that you're looking at right now
Look at my first vlog yesterday - slob, so I just want to put a video out and then
My phone why won't you stay in my pocket? Oh buddy just break my phone
Just there'll be horrible look and then it gets even worse my friend sends me a link to an article on Business Insider
Where the article literally says YouTube viewers are going down for bloggers and they talk about all these big bloggers and vlog video
creators
and how
They're not getting as many views as they used to get and I'm sitting here thinking like I'm just getting started and now they're writing
Our about how it's not working anymore. This is stressful for me
I mean I'm doing something new I'm committing to launching this daily vlogging
It's a lot of work right now when I'm filming this here. It's 8 o'clock at night
Put a full day of work in and I'm still trying to get these daily videos out
And it's so frustrating because I'm sitting here like is this a waste of my time
No, what's interesting about all this as simple as this whenever you start something new things are always going to go wrong
It's part of the process
I know this now. What's funny about this is that no matter how much I try to make things go perfectly it
Just never works out. This is true when I'm doing a product launch. This is true when I'm launching a business. It's true
No matter what it is. I'm trying to do
Something always breaks everything is broken
Now at first I was actually pretty frustrated about everything
That's what usually happens when you're launching something new when things don't go perfectly you get frustrated, and you start thinking I gotta quit
It's funny. I actually called up my video guy, and I'm sitting here thinking like man
This is not worth it
Oh, but here's the deal no matter what you do in life things aren't going to go perfectly
and you need to remember that I need to remember that I mean I'm sitting here filming at the end of the day and I
Don't even know what to say because there are all these things that went wrong today, and you always want things to go better
But they're not I decided to film this today because I want you to know that no matter what stage you're at no matter how?
Many employees you have whether you're getting start, or you've been out in a while
You're always going to have these types of problems happen. It's par for the course
I mean as you know I run an online education business and software company, and I'm relaunching this health product
And I have a lot of stuff on my plate, which is why I'm filming so late at night right now
But what I believe is that when you commit to something you need to commit to it?
And when these roadblocks happen I was very quick to think to myself one
Maybe I should just stop this, but I quote first. I can't because I announced that it was gonna be a daily vlog
I can't quit on the third day
How stupid would I look how many people failed their New Year's Lucian's already?
Which is actually a good point if you want to do a New Year's resolution?
Go ahead and make it public make sure everyone knows about it that way if you fail everyone's gonna laugh at you
It's part of the reason why I announced this daily vlog
I wanted people to hold me accountable and you know what if for some reason I
Slip up you should make fun of me anyway point is things don't go
Perfectly and as you know I already won't have business
I don't really have much time to be doing this sort of vlogging every day, but I'm gonna commit to it
I'm gonna keep to it, and I want to see how long I could last right now
I think that this is a really important part of the process
I wanted to share it because I wanted you to see firsthand that nothing ever goes perfectly and no matter what stage of business
You're in it's okay. You need to keep pushing forward
You need to lean in to the problems and realize that things will get better with time
I may not have a video guide today, and I may have a shaky camera right now
but that's fine things are gonna get better and
They're gonna get even more interesting with time when I can start filming outside when it's not negative 54 degrees out
That's it for this vlog today. I hope you liked it again
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And why don't you tell me about time when you wanted everything to go perfect?
And it didn't go that well share one of your horror stories
So we could all commiserate together because misery loves company and on that note I'll see you in the next video