a promise.
Going to be putting a YouTube video every day for the next 365 days.
https://www.youtube.com/@itznyky
My hope is that I can accomplish this. That I can keep myself ahead of the game. That I can grow a channel. That’s really what this is all about. I know that to be true. I have let myself fail time and time again. This time, I’m doing it for me. This time I’m doing it authentically. Yes, part of my hope is that doing this will bring about some level of success necessary to make some money. I want this to work. So bad. Yet, I find myself tired to rationality. Getting paid for playing Minecraft? Yeah right. Getting paid for music? Maybe… Enough to live off? Eh.
My goal is to see those things come to life. I want to build something. Something that people enjoy. Something they can listen to in the car. Something they can put on while they eat. Something they see and go, “Hey! I want that!”.
I even want to be more consistent with my blog posts. Maybe do them daily as well. Doesn’t take me very long. I like writing too. But I don’t want to over promise. I have a bad habit of letting myself and others down. I’ve let so many people down in my life.
I am going to make this work. I am going to put out a video EVERY DAY for the next year.
I know I am capable. I have accomplished so much that I don’t give myself enough credit for. I am talented. I am strong. I am fast. I am passionate. I served. I am resilient.
I say I know it, but a part of me won’t believe it until it sees it. For good reason too. I wouldn’t want to accomplish anything that I didn’t earn. I want to feel like I put in the work. The hours. The days when I feel like nothing is going my way and still find the time to put a video out.
For a long time, even I thought that YouTubers were silly. How could they possibly be making money? I even thought they didn’t deserve it. What good were they doing? Well… They were producing something I was consuming. How could I not see that? How could I not see the sacrifice of time they had to make? That a lot of them did so for free. I love that I can make videos and have people see them, FOR FREE. I love that I can make music and have people enjoy it FOR FREE. That I didn’t have to take the time to invent and build all of the infrastructure necessary to make it possible.
The more I learn, the more I realize how truly great I have it. How great most of us have it. At any time, I can make a fair assumption that most people reading this could get up and get a cub of nice clean water. Let alone DRIVE to a store. Or beam a bunch of colored squares from one side of the planet to the other (stream a video)… Like… TAKE A LOOK AROUND.
None of us know why we’re here. Or where it all came from. But here we are… Here I am. With an opportunity to do exactly what I want. Why shouldn’t I take it? Why shouldn’t I make an effort to go after it? I’ve got some time. I’ve got resources. So let’s go.
My goal is to build a company that does some good. I’m going to do that by talking about the world. About life. About things people want to hear about. Everybody loves taking sides. So I’m going to give them a side to take. It’s not about the opinion at all. It’s the sense of belonging. That you are a part of something. That WE are a part of something.
This “video a day” challenge is just to get the ball rolling. I know it’s possible. How many other people have done it? Too many to count. It’s not about the quality. Or the quantity. It’s about saying I’m going to do it, then doing it. It’s about being a voice for people still finding theirs. It’s about bringing people together. To find a mission, then accomplish it.
So here’s to the beginning!
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~~Nyk
