If aliens are monitoring our Instagram feed from outer space somewhere, they would definitely be planning their invasion, apart from the fact that we are all doing weird duck bum smiles. From outsiders point of view our lives are fantastic - we are on the beaches, we are climbing mountains, we are sipping Pina coladas while racing down the freeway in our Maseratis and working on our laptops at the same time. what they fail to realise is that we have completely photoshopped our lives within an inch of their lives. We've taken all of the struggling out of it, we have just shown the highlights. That's why I really want to focus this week on a movement, a Facebook group #AllHumansStruggle

The daily vlog ends today... no it doesn't really, but I did think about it. Because when something is not working for me I have a tendency to just reinvent it massively, like make massive changes and I don't think that's what's really needed but in terms of not working I'm talking about the actual implementing of my career pivot stuff, actually being able to get some of these kids book stuff underway. I'm completely happy with what's happening with the vlog and the blog. I think if something is not working you don't necessarily have to throw everything out, start again and completely reinvent it. Watch or Read Fork In The Road
Vlog: https://tinyurl.com/yc8hhkgy
Blog: https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com

The biggest thing preventing me from executing, implementing, succeeding at my goals is all of the great content, videos, podcasts and all these kinds of things that I consume, that are there to help me and give me ideas. The only problem is that, you know, I get this high from all these great ideas coming into my noggin and I just think well if I just keep consuming more, and more, and more, I’ll just become brilliant. You can't become brilliant from just consuming, you’ve gotta execute as well. So I want to start a brand-new thing for me, might be cool for you was well, it's called the pause button on Podcasts, video, just stop it. You hear something great - awesome - that will work on your business or what you're trying to do. Just stop, go do it, execute on it straight away. Because you can always go back to the podcast or video but you cannot go back on yesterday or last week.

Watch or read Fork In The Road

Vlog: https://tinyurl.com/yc8hhkgy

Blog: https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com/

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Changing things up massively with this podcast, my first interview! I chat with fellow #NoSmallCreator and daily vlogger Brian Vlasich.

We chat about all things Youtube, daily vlogging and his creative process.

Check out Brian’s channel here on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/BrianVlasich

When I first started YouTube and doing all these things, the podcast and all that. I told my dad, feeling really proud ‘look I’m doing all this stuff’ and he just said ‘can you monetize it?’ and, well, I said 'I don’t know, probably not'. It’s not about that tho, It's about getting the word out there about what you doing, about your work, so people know what you’re doing. so by the time you actually create something, people already know. You don't have to go and do all this work to actually let people know that you've done something in the first place - I don't know if that makes any sense - but I'm gonna see if I can potentially monetize what I'm doing now. With a small following and see how I can start to get that in place now from the beginning of my journey and see if I can start to bring in $.50 here or there.

YouTube, I thought it was just basically a platform for cats doing cute things and funny accidents between people and heavy machinery. I got started on YouTube about three months ago and it wasn't initially what I was setting out to do. I was gonna have my video content on Instagram and then I’d be doing my podcasting and my blogging as well. I thought I had the video for Instagram for one minute posts and I thought why not just put them up on YouTube anyway. And it turns out that it's my number one social media channel, which is really exciting there’s so much engagement, so much community involvement, so much support, that it's really exciting and so I want to be going into what I've been doing and how far of come.

Power of the mind. Mind body connection. Making my brain work. Can I overcome my self sabotaging, kind of, things? I'm just starting to think with the ‘Career Pivot Experiment’ and trying to better myself… I got another cold and I’m wondering if the two are connected? I know there is an element of stress involved in stretching yourself and stepping outside of your comfort zone but I'm wondering if there is something that, you know, it often kinda feels like my body is trying to stop me from striving, from doing things, and I'm just wondering if there is something in that. So this week I'm gonna be exploring the brain.

Now I’ve set these daily goals I've gotta work out how exactly I'm gonna go about achieving them. I’ve already done a week on time management and I’m gonna go back and look at time management with more detail to see how I can actually achieve these goals in a day without getting too stressed, without compromising my values which I've set up as well. I'll be getting down into the nitty-gritty finding hours where I never knew that existed before optimising my time so whenever I have a couple of minutes I'll be able to put them to good use and work out how I'm gonna get a page of a kids book plus this vlog out each day, when some days I might on average get a couple of hours, but some days I get no hours and some days I might get three hours. So how my gonna make that work?

This week I'm looking at fixing all of my goals, actually setting in stone what I'm gonna be actually doing. But first things first, I just wanted to talk about how amazing it is, what a great time it is to be a creator. I'm really excited about how creators can collaborate these days just with their phone. You have got podcasting platforms, you've got video platforms, you’ve got all kinds of ways of working together without being in the same country, without being in the same town and this is really exciting. I was up late talking with fellow #NoSmallCreator Brian Vlasich last night on Twitter and I'm very tired, but it's all very exciting and we might be doing some stuff in the future.

Watch or Read Fork In The Road

Vlog: https://tinyurl.com/yc8hhkgy

Blog: https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com/

This week I'll be focusing on my goals and my long-term goals like five year goals, year goal, month goal and how it comes down to even like a day goal, what I need to be getting done each day to head towards where I wanna go now.