A short YouTube tutorial by Lauren Bateman about overcoming low-motivation days to maintain consistent content production. Lauren gives practical tips—accountability, using a strong "why," immediate action (5-second rule), starting with easy tasks, and prepping a content schedule—to push past resistance, batch film short-form reels and long-form videos, and stay on track with channel goals.
Filming content when you're not in the mood can kill your momentum. But I'm going to share some tips with you in this video how to push past that and crush this mental barrier. So this video actually came up today for me because I actually was in the mood to film any content today. So I wanted to share with you kind of my process for how do I go from being like, I'm not going to do any work today to pushing myself to getting in front of the camera and actually recording the content and moving forward with my goals. Tip number one, no one is going to show up for your dreams but you. All right? It's not like going to the gym. I have a personal trainer, and the reason I have a personal trainer is I have someone to hold me accountable. If I didn't have that personal trainer. Even though I have a gym at the end of this hallway with weights and a bench and everything, I'm not going to motivate myself to walk down the hall and start picking up some weight. So what I do, I. I hired a personal trainer to keep me accountable. Well, when you work in your own business and YouTube is a business, this should be your business. The only person who's going to hold you accountable is you. So I have goals, I have personal goals, professional goals, I have financial goals, and I have freedom goals, you know, to do whatever I want with my time. And if I don't show up, every time I don't show up, it takes me that much longer to reach my goal. So think about that. When you're saying, I don't want to record content today, think about why you're doing this. It all goes back to your why. You got to have a good enough why you're doing this. All right? For me, freedom, freedom is huge. If I don't show up today, it means I do not get freedom down the road. So that motivates me. That why motivates me to show up. Tip number two, as soon as you start making excuses for no for, find a way to start saying yes. Brene Brown talks about the 5 second rule. If you have an impulse to act on a goal, you must physically move within five seconds or your brain will kill the idea. And yes, I'm from Boston. My ideas have Rs on the end of them. But if you guys don't know me, my name is Lauren Bayman and I have this YouTube channel here. I help content creators, especially educators like myself, be successful on YouTube. And what Brene is saying is, as soon as we start going down that slope of, I'm not going to do it, I'll put it off for tomorrow, I can do it later. Our brain, we're really good at coming up with lots of excuses for why we shouldn't do something. And instead, I encourage you to come up with excuses for why you should do something. And again, it goes back to that. Why, why, why are we doing this? If I do this today, it's helping me get one step closer to financial freedom. It's helping me get one step closer to helping someone else be successful on YouTube. If I don't show up here, I'm preventing others from reaching their goals too. So there's a lot riding on me showing up and getting my content done. Tip number three, start with the easy stuff. So today, I told you, it's a rainy day. It's really crappy. I was just like, I really don't feel like doing anything. First thing I did, I went outside, I actually let my dog out, and I got some fresh air. Because fresh air, when you're not feeling in the mood, just getting some fresh air and oxygen into your body can really motivate you to kind of wake up and say, okay, good, I'm feeling a little bit better and I'm ready to go. And what I did is I came in here and I started with the simple stuff. What could I bust out real quick again? Give me some momentum to feel like I'm getting somewhere. So I came in here and I recorded 16 reels. And you're like, holy crap, Lauren, that's a lot of content. The thing is, and this brings me to tip number four, which is prep your content. All right? Have a content schedule in prep content. The reason or why I was able to come in here and bust out 16 reels, because I already had them written down on a piece of paper. All right? Yesterday, I wrote down all of my ideas for these reels that I was planning on filming today. So when I came in here, my camera, my studio is already set up. All I have to do is press record and just film the reels now. Now, these reels and these shorts, they're less than 60 seconds, so I can bust those out pretty quick. And when those got done, I felt good. I was like, okay, I've accomplished something. What do I got to do next? Well, what I got to do next is the long form content. Okay? So this weekend I had a schedule, and I promised myself that I was going to stick to this schedule on Saturday. I was going to record all the long form content for my guitar teaching channel for next month. All right. I'm already working on December here. All right. I was going to record all the content for next month. I had all that stuff prepped ahead of time. And today I was going to record all my reels and the long form content for this YouTube channel. And I had all that prepped and written down, other than this video, which I prepped really quick before hitting record. So the bottom line is, make a plan and stick to it. Make that commitment to yourself. Make that commitment to your content. And if you are looking for content ideas, then in this video over here, I talk about the first, first pieces of content you should be uploading to your YouTube channel. So make sure you have that content on your channel. Go check out that video to find out what it is.
