Success Leaves Clues
Success leaves clues.
Here are three questions to unlock those clues:
Why are you at your current level of success, and not further behind?
Why are you at your current level of success, and not further ahead?
What’s the difference between future you, who has achieved your goal, and current you?
Here are my answers:
Why am I at 2600 YouTube subscribers, and not at 1000 subscribers?
I uploaded weekly for 12 weeks
I started making videos FOR YouTube rather than making videos and putting them ON YouTube. Just because it’s on YouTube doesn’t make it a YouTube video.
I hired an editor that made my videos a lot more watchable.
I focused massively on titles and thumbnails
I focused so much more on
Why am I at 2600 subscribers and not 5000 subscribers?
I stopped creating/publishing while I moved countries (And therefore I paused hiring my editor)
My titles and thumbnails can use so much improvement still
The quality of my video structure isn’t at 100k level yet
What’s the difference between future me (who has 5000 subscribers), and current me (who has 2600 subscribers)?
She puts way more thought into the titles and content
She trains for YouTube like Michael Jordan trains for the NBA championship (and has a dedicated YouTube mentor)
She doesn’t shy away from the hard work of creating more engaging content - she is willing to go the extra mile to get a better shot or create a better script.
She is extremely comfortable in front of the camera (she talks to it every day until the camera feels like a person)
Immediately she hires support again
She has a permanent set up so all she has to do is turn on the lights and camera and GO, there’s no “set up time” required.
How would you answer those questions?
