I've Got This

It’s getting towards the end of the month and I am HUSTLING.

Aside from my usual coaching and blogging commitments, here is what is on my list every day for the past week:

• Grow my YouTube channel by 7 subscribers

• Plan/film/edit a YouTube video (this one keeps getting put off, hence why it’s on my list every day)

• Grow my Facebook Group (I committed to reaching 1500 people this month)

• Find an outfit, find a location, book a photographer, get my photography done

If I’m honest, I feel scared.

But I refuse to give up. I choose to believe I can do this.

Okay. Enough blogging. Time to get back to work.

Why You're Not Taking Action

You're driven and you want it SO bad. So why aren't you taking action to get it? In this video, I'm sharing the main reasons why we don't take action and how to override them.

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Anything Can Happen

I share a ton of goals with the world. I wear my heart on my sleeve and I’m not afraid to share what I’m working on.

I also have some private goals. Goals I share with only my closest friends, and sometimes only with myself.

Lately, I didn’t hit one of my private goals. I worked so. damn. hard on it.

I thought of all the possible ways to make it work.

I wrote out an epiphany list.

I created a new plan.

I executed a new plan.

I believed in it right up until the last moment.

But the time was up and I didn’t reach the goal.

I have accepted that it didn’t happen in my desired time frame. But I am still not giving up. Just because the time limit passed, doesn’t mean the goal isn’t still attainable.

Anything can happen.

Start

In the last few days I’ve been struggling with procrastination for making my YouTube videos.

I pretend I don’t know how to fix it. That way I can procrastinate some more.

But I do know how to fix it.

I just need to DO the thing. Set up the camera. Press record. Go.

It’s one of the 5 Sutras of the Aquarian Age:

When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off.

So I’m starting, right now.

Expect a video soon.

Take Command Conversations

You guys this week I was featured on the Take Command Conversations Podcast!

Paul Gowin is a former Marine Corps Mustang Officer who turned transformational specialist.

In the episode, we talk about:

• The importance of family in stressful times

• How I Take Command of my thoughts

• How I overcame my fear of flying

And Paul asked me:

• How past lessons helped me uproot from my apartment in Britain and immediately move back home to New Zealand

• How I was inspired to push past what’s possible

• What superpower I’m growing right now

Click here to listen!

Quarter-Life Bliss

In psychology, a quarter-life crisis is defined as anxiety over the direction and quality of one's life.

Yesterday I turned 24, and I couldn’t have felt further from that.

Instead of feeling lost, confused, and directionless, I went to sleep feeling like the happiest, luckiest person in the whole world.

I have a family who loves me. I have food. I have safety. I have health. I have the opportunity to pursue my ambitions. I get to help people with my work. I have meaning. I have a purpose. Even my problems feel like blessings right now.

I’m incredibly grateful to be feeling this way because there have been times in my life when I haven’t felt like this at all.

Thank you for reading this, even if I don’t know you. You contribute to my happiness each day.

365 Days of Blogging

Here’s an image of what my blog looks like today, 21st of July, 2020.

Today is my birthday, and officially my 365th day of blogging! It seems kind of fitting that as I complete my 24th year around the sun, my blog completes it’s first.

My writing voice is clearer now than it was before. I’m more succinct. I know how to enjoy my own writing and not cringe when I read my posts the next day. And I’ve still got a long way to go with my writing.

I’m so grateful I committed to this journey because although I value the habit of creating a post every day, I value the habit of persistence and endurance even more.

Here’s what will change in the next 365 days:

• More video content – I’m ready to commit to video with the same tenacity and grit as I have with my written content. I know video will take me to the next level. It’s non-negotiable. All I have to do now is press go.

• Better images – I’ve said this before, and this is something I’ve wanted to address properly for a while. It won’t be immediate, and I plan to wait to work on this. But I want my content to be visually appealing to me as the words.

• More distribution – one of the reasons I decided to blog daily for two years in a row is because I knew that blogging occasionally would never bring a readership. Even now – hang on a minute, let me check the stats – I’m seeing about 40 people visit my blog per day (wow, that number is higher than I was expecting – when I first started, that number was about 2). Of course, 40 visitors a day isn’t groundbreaking, and that’s exactly why I committed to two years of blogging. This next year of blogging, I will be sharing my blog in many more places.

This is a time for celebration! But it’s not a victory yet. I committed to blogging every single day for 730 days and I’m not stopping now.

My Best Thoughts

It doesn't matter to me whether my thoughts are negative or positive – I just want to know if a thought is helpful or unhelpful.

And the helpful thoughts, I want on hand at all times.

So for the past 3 months, I’ve kept a note on my phone of “My Best Thoughts”.

Thoughts that I want to think as often as possible. Thoughts I want to turn into unwavering beliefs.

Some of these I’ve heard from other people. Some of them I created.

As long as they serve me – and others – I think them. As often as I can.

I am certain I can do this.

I already have everything I need to be successful and happy right now.

I can handle anything.

Everything always works out.

If not this, there’s something better coming.

It gets to be easy.

My security is in my brain, not my bank account.

I’m in it for the long haul.

I am in the middle of creating success.

Failure is just building my success story.

What are your best thoughts?

The Club

I don't just want to achieve all my goals.

I want to be THE KIND OF PERSON who achieves all their goals.

In my mind, there's a club.

And Michael Jordan is in it. And Steve Jobs. And Anna Wintour. And Lady Gaga.

It's the "I'm so damn good at what I do it's a whole other level you can't even explain" club.

And I want into that club.

Not for fame or accolades – I mean, no one else will even know I'm in it.

I want in because I want to know at the end of my life that I pushed myself to my full potential, and then some.

Who's coming?

Embrace The Hot Mess

My success philosophy is not about a perfectly executed plan, but about embracing being a total hot mess.

For example, one of my goals in July is to hit 600 subscribers (and I started on 487 at the beginning of the month).

Yesterday I had 92 left to go, with 13 days left of July. That means I need just over 7 people per day.

I could have thought about SEO, and click-through rate, and hashtags, and other technical jargon.

But I realized that since I don’t have any of those skills right now (and I don’t have a clue how I’ve got any of my previous subscribers), I would have to get creative.

I made an epipahny list (a game where I keep coming up with solutions until I have an epiphany).

1. Go knocking door to door in my neighborhood and just ask people to subscribe

2. Post on my private Facebook profile asking for subscribers

3. Message all of my friends individually and ask them to subscribe

4. Go out in public, like to the mall, and straight-up ask people to subscribe

5. Offer a promotion exchange (you share my channel, I’ll share yours)

6. Pay for ads

7. Make my own YouTube support group on Facebook

8. Ask my sister to share with her Snapchat following

9. Reach out to our local newspaper and get a story printed

10. Go to a networking event and connect with lots of new people

I decided to start with number 3, then number 5 and now number 8.

So far, in the last 24 hours, I’m up by 8 subscribers. Not bad, considering my goal was to hit 7 per day.

These solutions aren’t long term solutions to growing my YouTube channel. But what they are, is a creative way for me to solve my problem right now. As my channel grows, I will likely use more traditional, effective methods of growth. But I’m not there yet. So for now, just doing something is good enough.

That’s got to be one of the biggest mental shifts that I’ve made when it comes to achieving my goals: that in the beginning, you just have to fly by the seat of your pants and be a total hot mess.

You can do all the fancy techniques later.

Right now, you just have to get out there and DO SOMETHING.

(P.S. help me be the hot mess & subscribe to my channel here!)