how YouTube is changing my life (with less than 500 subscribers) | tips for introverts

not a smart idea to do this on a carpet but here we go and that's the great thing about being a new YouTuber I want to tell you what I'm struggling with so that you know that if you start a channel you will also be struggling with that and you're not alone in it your time management follow what you're interested in follow what you feel like you want to talk about it was so much waste of time so it's actually really helpful not sponsored do I even have to say that at this point like I don't know happy birthday to my YouTube channel it's turning one Let's Make A Wish there it is this was fun I should do this every year if you're new here my name is Dora as of right now I have 188 subscribers I don't know if you see that but that's a heck of a lot of people my channel turned one on December 23rd 2023 so welcome to the party I just wanted to share this Milestone with you guys and share a couple of things that have come up in the past year it will just be the experience of being on this platform telling you why it's literally the best thing to do for yourself if you're an introverted person like I am and also kind of giving you some motivation if you want to start your own YouTube channel because it definitely is worth it I was inspired by another Creator to make this type of video and that video is by Camila Ray I almost didn't make it she was talking about all of these other things that she managed to achieve as a result of uh being on Youtube Learning money through editing for other people and stuff like that which is nowhere near anything that I've done but I thought you know what if that is going to stop me that's kind of stupid because why did I even start a YouTube channel then cuz we all have to start somewhere and the fact that I've been on YouTube for the past year and posted even these like 12 videos I feel like by the end of the year I feel proud of that and I feel proud of every single video that is uploaded as I continue to think about it more and more things came up that I remembered that actually were improvements in my life and changed my life for the better and they were a result of me being on YouTube if you're watching this video I feel like maybe you also had the thought multiple times in your life that you could start a YouTube channel and that was the same thing for me for like s years literally since 2015 or 2016 I've I've started thinking about it really like okay this C this could be me and then I even like filmed a YouTube video back in 2016 it was absolutely cringy like it was it was so cringy like it's it's hard to watch it's hard it's so hard to watch and I never posted it obviously I feel like only my sister knows about it Zara if you're watching this like you're remember that freaking video that I made when I was living in my dorm that was insane and then I got into the whole social media thing like I went on Instagram started posting there went on Tik Tok started posting there if I had continued I don't know what would have happened have that kind of mindset oh I didn't start back way back when what's the point of starting now or like oh but I started back then and I didn't continue now it's going to be hard yes you didn't start back then you can start now like there's nothing stopping you unless there are actual thing stopping you basically if you have a camera and an internet connection there's nothing stopping you you don't have to be so hard on yourself cuz I definitely was and that is what that was what was stopping me from like actually showing up putting out content that felt genuine if you're thinking about starting a YouTube channel film videos you genuinely want to film that you're genuinely interested in doing and making my 12we Year video which is right now the most watch video on my channel I was starting to plan out my quarter with 12we here this is a method that I've been using for a while I absolutely love it and I saw I thought well you know it's not really like a topic that I have like as my topic pillar but I'm so motivated to do this like I really want to do this for some reason then I thought you know what like I don't really have a huge audience that relies on me and that expect a certain type of content from me so I might as well do it and that's the great thing about being a new YouTuber you can try to do whatever you want in the beginning not saying this is a strategy like don't follow my advice or anything I filmed it I posted it and I remember my husband telling me like yeah you know well that's probably like a niche video it's probably not going to get a lot of views you know like your food videos kind of get more views and stuff like that I was like yeah I know you know you're probably right I was just like anyway like this is something that I'm interested in I love this app notion like obviously not sponsored do I even have to say that at this point like I don't know but I love it it I genuinely love it I just posted it and it's my most viewed video on my channel and I'm proud of it and I love it like I I love that it's there follow what you're interested in follow what you feel like you want to talk about and just if you're really inspired by an idea even if it's random out of what you thought what you wanted your channel to be about just try it whatever like that's the freedom that you have when you're new people think that YouTube is just for extroverts for people who are good at talking to other people but I actually think it's not I think YouTube is a place for people who have some things to say and I know that a lot of introverted people like me have plenty of things to say they're just not able to be heard in their day-to-day life and I definitely feel like that sometimes YouTube is such a great outlet and it is allowing me to come out of my shell and to become more confident and also so it is allowing me to convey what I want to say in a much more clear and concise manner I feel like my talking skills are improving as well that reminds me of uh the office when Michael says like uh sometimes I start a sentence and I don't know where it's going exactly that's exactly how I feel sometimes but I feel like it's improving because of YouTube that skill for example for me is definitely improving even though we find talking to other people hard we sure do know how to talk to ourselves basically my whole life is a conversation that is happening inside of my head amount of personal growth that you experience has somebody who thinks of themselves as an introvert is absolutely insane when you start a YouTube channel it's not just about knowing how to talk and conveying your message and finding your voice it's also about all of the other skills that you get to learn I mean that brings me to to the skill to the skill set if you're starting out on YouTube You're basically almost get Gathering up the skills for a new career there's so many people in this world who need people who know how to edit videos who know how to make good scripts for videos people who know how to make thumbnails or come up with video ideas and Concepts the opportunities are endless like and I did not cash in on any of these opportunities mind you like up until now but I start to see them as possibilities now the point where I might not feel like an impostor of actually offering to edit a video for somebody or something like that you know and that can open up so many doors we still have one more thing to talk about okay and those are the challenges and the plans that I have for this YouTube channel I don't know if I necessarily have a plan but there are some things that I really want to challenge myself to do and I want to tell you what I'm struggling with so that you know that if you start a channel you will also be struggling with that and you're not alone in it you're definitely not first thing I'm struggling with coming up with ideas for videos I come up with something for a second I think it's brilliant 2 days go by and I'm like that's a stupid idea I don't know maybe it's just me maybe that's something that you won't be struggling with but for me that's currently also still hard the second thing like don't try to film a video without a script even if you're going to go off script it's helpful to try to write a script to know approximately the points that you want to talk about and then to turn on the camera and start talking about it I've made a mistake of trying to film without making a script without knowing where I'm going with it it was so much wasted time so it's actually really helpful even if you go off script which brings me to my next struggle even when I have a script I tend to go off script am I even filming right now just I am okay God damn it that brings me to my next struggle which is time management in general like I tend to still underestimate the amount of time it takes to script film edit and then upload and post like actually like the whole setup like the thumbnail the description title whatever else like wow it takes a long time my second year of YouTube I want to take up vlogging a little bit more and to try to film stuff in public cuz I am so embarrassed to do that and I feel like it will be such a huge milestone for me in terms of my personal growth and in terms of this YouTube channel if I could just start talking to the camera in front of other people and the first thing that I'm going to do which I'm telling you right now so you have to keep me accountable Vlog our trip to Spain now basically in a week or so in 10 days or so and post that and it's not going to be about getting views it's not going to be about anything else except for me trying to overcome this step in this YouTube journey and I feel like that's going to be such a huge thing for me the next thing is definitely consistency so I want to post more videos this year oh yeah and then the other thing that I want to overcome is to be maybe a video ahead like that would be so much less stressful simply because right now I'm filming week to week it's kind of stressful especially because I have a job I really need to try to plan in advance and like be at least one video ahead I think that's it honestly I don't know if I have anything else to say yeah I'm glad I did this today simply because I was sick and this kind of lifted my spirits thank you for celebrating my YouTube Channel's first birthday with me if you're a subscriber thank you so much if you watched any of my videos thank you so much I just love the little tribe that I get to build on this freaking platform like I did not think that that would be one of the most rewarding things about this whole journey so if you're thinking about starting a YouTube channel do it now because in a year from now you could be celebrating your Channel's first birthday and you could be having 188 subscribers with 157 watch hours if I do say so myself and you could be 14 videos in already and I hope that your journey will be rewarding in the same ways and in a lot of other ways as well I also hope that when you stumble across challenges you keep going because it definitely is worth it subscribe to my channel if you haven't already leave a comment watch my other videos and have a good day um that's already too much let's start again okay let's start again maybe I haven't filmed the first part of me eating it which is I guess I guess another challenge as a new YouTuber not knowing how to hit the record button if you don't know who I am why should you there's a pancake then Nutella then Cherry Jam then a pancake I dropped I dropped a BL oh

Channel: Dora

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Length: 12min 1sec (721 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 22 2024