It’s the final day of August today. What better day to finish editing my Plan With Me video for September.
I love this time of year normally. Getting back into the school routine, the scorching hot days behind us, waking up to cool mornings…but this summer in our new house has been lovely and I’m a little sad it’s coming to an end.
So my favourite time of the year: September and October, is bittersweet. But I did enjoy getting myself organised for the month ahead. I’ve taken time out over the summer and for our house move and my projects were hanging over me a little bit. So in this video you’ll see I’ve done some house-keeping of my journal and post-it sheets. I’ve crossed projects off and binned others that weren’t done but were date sensitive. I’ve transferred post-its to the ‘done’ sheet (always a lovely feeling!), brainstormed future videos, planned the next tasks for my novel, come up with next steps for my essays and now I know exactly what I need to do once my children are back to school next week.
It’s great having got that bit done and out the way so I know exactly where to start.
The video is a little different to normal. It wasn’t scripted and I was literally working out my tasks and plans as I recorded to camera. Doing this way was more natural but it also meant I had to scrap a lot of my ramblings! I hope you enjoy it.
Over the weekend I sent out a newsletter which opened with a short anecdote about my YouTube channel. The subject of the newsletter wasn’t actually about YouTube at all but I received an email back from one of my lovely subscribers asking what had happened with my YouTube journey. She said: It feels almost like we followed you on your journey then when you arrived at the Emerald City, you left us outside the gates.
I completely agreed. I’d stopped talking about YouTube once I reached monetisation. I’d shared a lot of what I was going through including my analytics and how close I was getting on my Instagram Stories - but then just didn’t carry that narrative on.
My YouTube journey has dominated my life for a year. I was thinking about it a lot; anxious that I would not reach the relevant requirements and then, when I did, I was worried about being rejected and monetisation would not be allowed for my channel.
So I thought I’d explore why I stopped talking about my YouTube channel in this blog post, as well as looking at my YouTube journey so far.