At the end of December 2019 I created a video to explain why I was going to track my writing projects in a bullet journal.
This video has become one of my most successful in recent months.
My log and tracker pages are not beautiful works of art as many bullet journals are but they have encouraged me to be more productive and I’ve really enjoyed filling in the different trackers.
I’m delighted with the progress I’ve made - particularly with my novel. In the video below I share exactly how many words I’ve written this month as well as how I got on with my non-fiction, my essay and what I’ve read.
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.