start even if you don’t know how.

I'm sorry to be the bear of bad news but being a perfectionist makes you a failure yeah I know pretty bold statement to make but looking back over the last few months I realized that it's kind of true see not a day goes by that I don't wake up and ask myself how can I get closer to my creative goals today and at a certain point this became really overwhelming because I would spend hours of every single day just thinking and planning and scripting and storyboarding and going through checklists and trying to make sure that

everything I could ever make and come up with was going to come out perfectly just to make nothing for months idea after idea would come up and I would turn on the camera and film whether I was talking walking making a tutorial literally whatever Nobody Knows the answer none of you know what the answer to what does the word cinematically mean but then when it came to editing I would tell myself that the video I made is not good enough to be seen for whatever reason I literally just always had some excuse in my head

as to why I had to scrap my old idea and start over and that literally led to months of me striving for Perfection and not achieving it and now here we are 8 months into the year and I feel so behind on my goals simply because I wanted everything to be perfect before I even started see my problem is I either want to be great or I want to be nothing and great to me equals perfect but the joke's on me because in my efforts to make everything so perfect my perfectionism has been the one

thing that's been preventing me from making something that is perfect they say practice makes perfect but when you're literally sitting there and scrapping every idea that you've ever had and you're not actually following it through to the end you're not even giving yourself a chance to achieve perfection even though we really shouldn't be striving for Perfection anyways because nobody's perfect I feel like we also forget that no one actually even knows the vision that we have in our heads so if it's not executed perfectly the only person who's going to actually know that is I

get a lot of comments and DMS of people saying stuff like they want to start making videos but they're afraid it won't be good enough or they don't know where to start and if I've learned anything this year it's literally that if you're not willing to leave some room to grow and perfect your craft good quality videos in art is never going to happen so unless you're willing to embrace the trash content that you will inevitably make on your way to making something great you'll literally never get anywhere near this Perfection that you're striving for

so yeah a lot of your work is going to suck and it's going to hurt your ego and it's probably going to make you cringe a little bit or maybe a lot but it comes with the territory if you truly want to accomplish all your goals you're going to have to push your pride to the side and admit that hey some things may not be your best work but at least you're trying to make it better and who knows maybe your next project is going to be the best project this world has ever seen but

you never know unless you try it's actually so funny because because when I think about it the idea of something being perfect is essentially a myth like by constantly striving for Perfection you're telling yourself that you won't be satisfied until you reach Perfection which creates a false sense of security and reality because you're chasing something that literally doesn't exist something that can your mindset and keep you stuck in ways to where you end up becoming the failure you were trying to avoid being in the first place I feel like there are two types of perfectionists

the perfectionists who work really hard at themselves which means every day they're going to get up work hard they're going to put themselves out there no matter what and then there's people like me people who are very hard on themselves and work hard for their goals and constantly strive for Perfection but somewhere along the way they give up when they realize that the goal that they were trying to achieve doesn't look like how they pictured it AKA perfect some people say that that means I self-sabotage because I have a subconscious fear of failure but um

I'll unpack that with my therapist later if you would have told me at the beginning of this year that this is where I would have been in my journey I would have been offended but yet here we are starting over again and it's really no one's fault but my own my problem is I don't like being bad at things but they say that's where the greatness comes from and I've been trying to teach myself that you have to be willing to be bad at something in order to become someone great it's just so crazy to

think about how we are our own worst enemies and we are the only reasons why we are held back from accomplishing the goals that we cannot stop thinking about so this is advice to you but also to me to get out of your own way imagine how far you could have been in your journey if you would have just stopped making excuses I know we're in the eighth month of the year and this is the time where the seasons are about to start changing and people are realizing that summer has gone by so fast and

that there are so many places that they've wanted to go and so many places that they wanted to see and you're looking back and realizing that you didn't do all the things you said you were going to but it's okay because you're not running out of time it's okay to just take a deep breath and just start doesn't matter how long you've been thinking about YZ goal just start and everybody says just start just start just start and I know it's getting really redundant at this point but they're not wrong there a reason why people

are saying just pick up the camera just pick up the hobby just pick up the pencil start studying start writing that book start making that movie it's the only way you're going to get better striving for Perfection only makes sure that there's failure so just start let it all be crappy now it's going to be perfect later [Music] it's like a love hopefully [Music]