Episode 006: BYFY Podcast - 14 Days in. Thoughts on Productivity, learnings and Motivation

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14 Days in. Thoughts on Productivity, learnings and Motivation

• Nearly exact 14 days ago I made my Commitment to my 66 days challenge and now I’m sharing all my thoughts and learnings on this. With you.

• I try to structure this episode as good and tight as I can

What are my experiences on my productivity

• my very ambitious plan, to record, film, edit and release a video on YouTube and a Podcast every day. That turned out not to be feasible. Why? I have my great daily JOB which is very time consuming and the BYFY Show is what my heart wants to do. And I can only do this, when I have finished my 9to5 job. I completely underestimated the time which it takes to, come up with ideas, to research and write a script. For example, I’m still writing on the script of my Review of the Aputure mc lights. And I have invested over 4 hours in this one alone. After this, I still have to Film and to do the voice recording. And then all that has to be edited. Ok the MC Lights are a special and very big project, but it illustrates how time consuming this is. I want to give you another example. A podcast like this one, needs around 2h of research and scripting. Then up to 1h recording. The Audio Podcast takes then a little bit longer than it’s length to edit and upload. This makes overall about 4 hours. The video version of the podcast takes another 2 to 4 hours. So, we have something about 6 to 8 hours for one Podcast. This gives you a little insight how time and energy consuming it is to something like this.

what are learnings out of the first 14days

• one video + one podcast every day is at my experience level not doable.
• but and this is a very important but, I managed to work on a podcast and or a video every day.
• some days some things come in between. And you can’t do anything to avoid them
• as long as I stay on course and keep on working on my project the day is not wasted
• I love what I’m doing here, all the complete different things I have to learn and do, research, script writing, storyboard, lighting, filming, sound recording, editing, keyword research, website building, thumbnail design and this is even not the complete list of things
• Time Management- you can’t do something this big without a serious plan on how to manage the different tasks you have to do throughout a day
• I have to press so many things into one day. There are: family, wife and kids and all the things you must accomplish on a daily base, sport, job, learning, reading a book and then the BYFY Show
• know your gear!

How do I keep me motivated

• all I need to motivate me is to imagine my future
• just kidding, or not really kidding
• I love every single task I have to master for the BYFY Show
• this is the complete opposite to my day job and keeps me in a great mood for it

Future Plans and how the BYFY Show continues

• the 66 days challenge will be accomplished and I thought about expanding this to 100 days
• depends on how far my experiences will evolve
• today I just started working on the graphical look for the 2nd Season
• this means, it’s more worthwhile than ever to subscribe to the BYFY show here on the Podcast and on YouTube

End

• for all of you who can’t wait to see the Aputure MC Review, it’s coming in the next days. I had completely underestimated the time it takes to realise a project like this
• it looks like i managed to keep the episode short and on topic this time.
• let us end this here. I catch you in the next episode of the BYFY Show