Here’s to the power of positive thinking. As those who regularly follow me know I have a YouTube channel where I post a weekly vlog about the ketogenic lifestyle and living a more mindful, conscious life. I started it back in October to create a bit of accountability for me (as the camera will show my progress) but also as a way to try to give back to the community of people out there, some I know really well and some who were complete strangers to me, who’ve helped me along the way.
I try to spend a little time each week working on ways to better track how things are going on my channel and ways I can improve it. I realized that the app I use to track it is nice but I wanted to see the big picture in a different way so I created a spreadsheet to track my views each month, and the minutes people watch. Putting it together I noticed something interesting that made me smile.
Keep in mind that since I started back in October I’ve put at least one video up every week on Wednesday. I have added a few extra videos in there on top of that. But my uploading has been consistent so none of what I’m about to tell you could be explained by being off schedule or failing to upload during the week.
When I first started I was of course nervous, but also very excited about the project. And the numbers reflected that. My channel had the most views and minutes watched since I started. I was very positive about the channel. My introduction video had gotten a lot of views but over the next few weeks the views tapered off a bit. Which of course made me a little nervous. The next month the views and the minutes watched dropped significantly. This added to the nervousness, and the next month (December) the numbers were even lower.
And then a funny thing happened during the first video I did in 2019. I don’t script my videos (as is apparent at times I’m sure) I simply have a topic I want to cover and just talk to the camera. When I first started my channel I had committed to 52 videos, one per week. So I would have been done at the end of September 2019. But as I was talking about 2019 in the video and what I wanted for this year it came to me. I committed in the video to a full year of videos starting with that one so that all of my 2019 journey would be on the record.
Why did this happen? As I was filming the video I had become positive again because it was a new year with new possibilities. And I was excited about tracking them all, not just up to October.
This morning I looked at the number of views and minutes so far for this month and that’s when it hit me. My numbers were back up again. Here we are only two-thirds of the way through the month and my numbers are already beating my second month’s numbers.
I’ve done a little research. January is supposedly a lull month for YouTube so my numbers should be flat or even down. But they’re up. And I think it’s no coincidence that if you track my views, the minutes watched, and how positive and sure I was about my channel you’d see the exact same graph each time.
Could there be other explanations. Sure it’s possible. But as there’s no real downside to being positive I think I’ll just keep on with that game plan as the numbers keep getting better. If you haven’t seen my channel before, I’ll leave my latest vlog below. I hope you enjoy it and I hope you have a happy and positive week ahead of you. Peace.
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