30-Day Video Challenge Starts Tomorrow: Building Consistency

What got me off the bench to do this was an old podcast episode I did about eight years ago. I used to have a podcast called “Mental Health Moment,” where I did daily thoughts about mental health.

This podcast ultimately shaped my first book 31 Days of Mental Health Moments.

I even had an Alexa skill to go with it, which was still pretty new at the time. I wonder if my old ones are still out there?

Anyway, about a month ago I was listening back to the raw recordings. In the very first one, I said I was excited about doing this podcast because it was better than doing video.

Good heavens, what a thing to say!

But it was clear that I’ve been ducking this video thing for a very long time, and I need to get over myself.

So this challenge came along at just the right time.

I’m doing it along with a founding member community from Vidonary, so there’s accountability for me, and hopefully some actionable feedback, too.

I’ll be doing a mix of short and long form. I’m hoping this will do the same thing for me with videos that X did for me with writing (although I was already skilled with writing coming in to my X experience).

I’m still building my video skills, but I believe I will improve a lot with the consistency of this challenge. That’s the improvement I hope for, but building the consistency with it is the other big outcome if I stick it out.

This is about the publish metric, and the “it-may-be-a-stinker-but-that’s-okay” metric.

Click the giant subscribe button after my LRM signature below if you want to subscribe to my channel and follow along.

And feel free to drop me a comment along the way if there’s anything you think could be better, or if there are topics you’d like to see me try.

I’m not working in fancy surroundings; it’s just a 10×10 wellhouse at the top of a hill. And I’ll have to plan my videos around everyone’s showers and laundry.

But I have more than what I need to do this, so off I go.

— LRM