This Will Inspire You to Step Forward | Bailey's Journey

How many videos should you do per week? So I got a question from a friend of mine. Her name is Bailey, and she's asking me how many videos should she do per week to tell her story. Now let me back up and tell you a little bit about Bailey. Bailey has a successful company called Proactive Movement. She's built this thing up over the past couple years, has had great results for her clients. They love her. She just feels like there's something missing in her life, like there's something more that she could give to the world than what she's doing right now. Her company will always be a part of her. She's always pouring energy into it, but she's meant for something greater. And this is something that I think everybody can relate to. At least I hope you can relate to, right? Do you feel like in your business or in your life you are meant for something greater than what you're doing right now? And so I encouraged her to say, Bailey, you need to document this. Because what she's doing now is she's going on a journey of self-discovery. She's trying a whole bunch of new stuff. She's traveling, she's signing up for courses, she's learning from mentors, she's practicing speaking, she's practicing video. She's trying out a whole bunch of new stuff to see where her path is. This is really important because for most people, they're afraid to take that step. You might be thinking to yourself, I, I, I don't know what I'm doing with my life. I feel like I deserve better. I feel like I could contribute way more to this world. But you're too afraid to take the next step. You're too afraid to start that journey of exploration. So I told Bailey, you have to document, you got to record this because I know you're going to find your path. My friend Bailey is going to find her path. She is going to be a force to be reckoned with in this world. I know it. I believe it. It's gonna happen. But right now, she doesn't know how it's all gonna work out. She doesn't know what her path is gonna look like. She doesn't know who she's gonna meet. She doesn't know what she's gonna be doing. She's discovering, and this is an important journey that everybody has to go on at least once in their life. And this right now, this is the, the, the most important part because Bailey in a couple years saying, how she became successful is not as interesting a story. What's really important is this. This is the scary stuff. This is the uncertainty. This is the vulnerability. This is the, "I don't know what I'm doing now." That journey will help inspire other people, hopefully like you, who are going through the same thing but are too afraid to take that step. Seeing Bailey do it will help inspire others to take action with their own life. And so she writes to me and says, you know, should I do it once a week? I don't know if that's, if that's too much to do. I don't know if I have enough to say in the week. So here's my two bits of advice, and this is for everybody who's trying to document their journey and get some stuff up on YouTube or wherever you're going to post it to help inspire others. First of all, you need to practice, okay? One video per week should be minimum. Minimum. You want to be a speaker, you want to gain an audience, you want to build a movement, one video a week is a minimum. First of all, because you need to practice. You need to get better, right? As good as Bailey is right now, the people watching her videos are just her friends. Sorry Bailey, I'm being honest. But she has the potential to impact millions of people, and for that to happen, she has to get better on camera. Now she's done like 2 videos, and her first 2 videos are way better than my first 2 videos. She has a natural ability that is way better than what I started with, but she still has to get a lot better, and that comes from practice. I've gotten better with my videos because I practice. I've done over 1,000 videos. You go back even 6 months on my channel, and compare it with today and you'll see the progress. I wanna remove my first videos because I look back and I'm saying, "Oh my God, it's so bad. That is so bad." But people still like them, people still watch them, so I keep them up. And it's fun to see how I've progressed through practice. So one per week is minimum. I do 14 per week. You gotta do at least one per week, okay? Just to develop the skill set to get better at speaking in front of the camera and connecting with people. The second thing is, this is really important, the types of videos that you practice. So right now, Bailey's videos are summarizing what's happened to her. So I've taken this course and it was really great, and now next week I'm going to go for this interview, and basically what she's doing with her life. And that's great. The problem is there's no feeling. What would be way more powerful is take one moment that happened to you in the past week. Ideally, you're recording it just after it happened, so it's still fresh. And just tell me about that moment, because your goal here is to make me feel something, good or bad, right? Most of us think about the good things, right? I just landed this new deal, or I just signed up a new client, or I just got into this new program, or I just got a new mentor. All the good right? That's great, but the more powerful stuff is on the negative side. Tell me about how nervous you are or how scared you are. Be vulnerable. Make me feel something. Tell me one story in depth and make me feel like I'm with you, right? If you're nervous, I want to be nervous. If you're crying, I want to be crying. Take me on that journey. Instead of summarizing what happened to you, and hopefully this gives you a lot more stories to be able to practice and be able to tell. The reason why it's so important is because the goal of these videos is not just to document your own progress, which is great, but to help inspire other people to do the same thing, to help inspire millions of people to look at their life and say, I could do better, and to inspire them and to move them to action. You have to make them feel something. Feel something. If they don't feel anything, if they don't feel a connection to you, they're not going to listen to your advice. Make them feel how important it is for you and draw them in. And Bailey's great at this. Bailey isn't a— she has— she wears her heart on her sleeve. She's emotional, which is great. It just is not coming across yet on camera. So this is a skill to practice. So once a week minimum, and instead of summarizing, Give me specifics, take me deep, make me feel the pain, make me feel the happiness, bring me along. I want to be deep inside your story. Make that happen and you can connect with people and you're starting your movement. Believe.

So I clearly am sick and my voice is really funny, but I haven't recorded for the past couple of weeks and Evan has been knocking on my door and saying, why aren't you recording anything? And I've been saying, because I've been so busy. And he said, no excuses, you still You still need to pump out one video a week when you're feeling inspired, when you're feeling down, when you're feeling busy, no matter what. So yes, I failed. I'm here, sick, and still recording.

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