Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Mrwhosetheboss – Draw My Life – V2”.
This is the most real video I’ve ever made and if you could watch it till the end, it all makes sense and would really mean a lot to me in 2016, mister who’s, the boss, hit 200,000 subscribers and to commemorate, I made a draw my life video, Explaining how I got to this milestone and essentially how I was hell-bent on making it to a million subscribers. What I didn’t realize at the time is that I had barely scratched the surface of YouTube, all the great things that were about to happen, but also the dark places. It would lead me up until this draw my life video after five and a half years on YouTube. I’D never met a subscriber in person. I’D never worked with a company I’d, never flown to a different part of the world for work.
This was about to change very quickly as soon as I graduated University in 2017, I went for it for the first time. I could say that I was a full-time youtuber, all those videos I could make because of my studies, all those pent up ideas. There was nothing holding me back now. It had so much momentum. I was uploading one video every single day and very soon, the channels daily subscribers turned from hundreds to thousands and company started taking notice.
I didn’t consider myself some sort of big deal, I’m a guy who makes videos on tech because that’s something I love to do, and so, when company started flying me to Munich, Barcelona, China just to attend their events, it really in moments felt like a dream. Come true, I’ve bumped into people who’ve told me that I inspired them. People who felt forever thankful that I helped them save money.
These are moments that have stayed with me and I’m so lucky and grateful to have had them. So, understandably, it is tough to sympathize with all this and I don’t want you to feel sorry for me or anything, but I’ve not been feeling great for a while now and I’d consider myself a tough person, but this is the toughest thing I’ve ever done back When mister who’s, the boss was on a hundred followers, I remember having a conversation with a friend we sat down and dreamt about what it would be like to have 10,000 subscribers 10,000 people enough to fill a stadium all wanting to watch what you could do. I would look at channels with this number and I’d think to myself wow.
This person must be so happy little did I realize that soon enough? I would also be passing this momentous figure, but when I did, I would smile a little give myself a pat on the back and carry on that was it. Why couldn’t I appreciate what I just achieved? The problem stems from this being. First, matters on YouTube, especially in tech.
Nobody needs to see two of the same comparison. Video people rarely need a second review once they seen one good one. Two days, late on an unboxing is the difference between a million views and a tenth effect and having some pressure can be a great thing, but on YouTube for me at least it wasn’t once a year or once a month. It was every hour of every day. This world is moving so fast and I felt like I had to keep up with it. This was my job.
If I like, every day, there was a new phone or new app or a new story, and I had to be first and as I started to raise my quality, the pressure only mounted now that I’ve produced a video at this level. I can’t go back. Every video needs to be this good or better as your audience grows. There are more people, you don’t want to disappoint and then you’ve got your emails.
Piling up throughout the day. Deadlines looming, you’ve got tweets comments. Questions to attend to these people need your help. It is your duty to help them. I was completely overwhelmed. Add to this the massive amounts of admin I had to do just to set up a company and the weight of this article 13, potentially destroying everything. I’Ve been building. I didn’t really know where to turn.
It wasn’t unusual for me to work 14-hour days 7 days a week. There was no distinction between morning and evening, a weekday and weekend, and it just felt like this continuous unending race, to remain relevant against some of the most creative hardworking people on the planet and hard work is great, but there’s something I didn’t anticipate when I made That draw my life video and when I was at university, surrounded by friends, YouTube is lonely. Whilst it’s not obvious, when you see a polished, cut up video with upbeat background music and a smiling Erin, 95 % of the time I’d be on my own, when I’m filming I’ve been on my own for the whole day prior scripting and would quite possibly be On my own, for the rest of the day, editing they are creators who have a healthy work-life balance, but it was my never-ending determination to keep getting better.
That started to drive me a bit crazy. I wasn’t just physically alone, but emotionally alone there wasn’t a single person I felt like I could talk to. Who could actually relate to the stresses. I was feeling to put it another way. Youtube is a privilege job to have, but can also breed an attitude that creates relentless unhappiness. So I found as the channel was getting larger. I was somehow an ironically becoming more busy, more lonely and less happy I’d lost touch with all my friends from school.
Most of my friends from University and by the time I’d usually finished working in the night, my family was often asleep. So where do you go from here? There are three things I’ve come to realize and the reason I’m making this video is just because these three things are a stark shift from who I was in 2016. When I made the first draw my life before YouTube hit me full force and each person has their own way of living. So I’m not going to say this is the key to life or anything, but these ideas have massively helped me out in this uncertain world. One, it is good to be determined to have a goal and to be willing to work like crazy when you need to, but not to always make it your life’s mission to chase the next thing. By telling yourself, you want something you’re, also telling yourself that something isn’t good enough as it is, and this kind of attitude can leave you always wanting. Never settling as it did for me, determination is what got this channel to where it is, but at the same time it’s what stopped me seeing how great things already were number two. It is crucial to just try and be present a lot of the time I was working.
I’D be so caught up in my to-do list, the minute I’d, finished, scripting, I’d, start filming the minute I finished, filming I’d start editing, it’s anyone. I’D look back at the end of the day, but I’d see that I was on autopilot for the entire journey. It’S fine! It’S natural people do that, but more and more I’m starting to realize how powerful it is to unplug to take a step back and to realize that just to be alive and breathing, as a miracle say, a video you spent an entire week working on completely flops. So what say, an exam you spent the last month revising for you fail it doesn’t matter.
You still got 20 30 50 years to figure it out and number three is persistence. A lot of people come to me asking for advice, everything from how to start a YouTube channel to how to study for exams, and the best bit of advice I can give is to just do it just make that first, video just take that leap and then Make it a mission to use every bit of feedback you can get to make each attempt better than the last I’ve done it for 8,000 videos already, and I can say for sure that I’m not going to be stopping now and really that’s it for the people. Who’Ve just joined the channel for the people, who’ve been there from the beginning. I really appreciate it now or more than ever before, so thank you, I’m still learning, but at the same time the progress this channel has made in the last three years is crazy and I can’t wait to keep creating videos to keep making those mistakes and to Keep getting better every single day, I’ve just expanded the team for the first time ever, I’ve just upgraded our video gear and I’m learning to approach the inevitable difficulties with a slightly healthier mindset.
I think 2019 is gon na be a pretty great year. You .