I find this an incredibly comforting thought. We are talking here about the anxiety from making choices in our professional or personal life. Perseverating on what to do with our lives, our careers, or how to handle a significant decision at work can weigh on us. Choices like these have consequences. We are right to…
If you’re a parent with kids of a certain age, you are signing them up for summer activities right about now. While this may sound insane, and it is insane, this is the way of the world. I am a big fan of planning and planning tools. These don’t have to be fancy, in fact,…
In this final video, we pull a bunch of steps together and update an entire YouTube channel’s worth of videos for SEO. Previous Steps: AI and Automation to add YouTube Video Description and Keywords VidIQ Keyword Automation Part1 Automating YouTube Keywords with VidIQ Score Part 2 Tools used: High-Level Steps
Unclear ROI unless your job is teaching people how to grow their audience It’s still social media Getting sucked into the attention economy Cheap tricks get attention (see post picture) – “Am I some conjurer of cheap tricks?” Saying something dumb. I don’t want dumb as part of my “personal brand” Exposing something private Hurt…
Me: “what are some good books to read for black history month?” GenAI starts listing some books like it normally would, then…the response got erased and I was left with. GenAI: “Hmm…it looks like I can’t chat about this. Let’s try a different topic.” This was weird and disturbing. I had to double-check what I…
Do you really think so little of yourself that you can’t sacrifice an hour or two, 3-4 days a week, for yourself? Harsh. But sometimes that’s what we need to hear. The full version of this quote talks about how we give hours of ourselves to our jobs, our friends, and our family before we…
This video builds off of the previous part 1 video. We are starting with a list of AI generated keywords for a YouTube video. We will sort them based on their VidIQ score and pick the top 8. Previously we had to manually create the record for each keyword with its score. Now, we will…
Specific: Clearly define what you want to accomplish. Avoid vague descriptions. Print books. Read end-to-end. Measurable: Ensure you can track your progress and measure the outcome. 5 books a month. I tracked the books on my planning whiteboard and checked them off as I completed them. Achievable: Set realistic goals that are attainable given your…
KISS – You wanted the worst; you got the worst. It’s KISS! These guys have a few decent mediumish-rock songs and that’s about it. There are metalheads whose opinion I respect who love KISS, but I just don’t get it. Everything about them is the opposite of what metal should be. Maybe if you were…
“Aspiring artists share one trait. They all think like amateurs. They have not yet turned pro. The moment an artist turns pro is as epochal as the birth of his first child. With one stroke, everything changes.” Make 2025 the year that you turn pro in whatever your art may be. Take it seriously. Put…