Hi everyone and welcome back to my channel today
I'm back at you with another sit-down video, and I'm gonna be talking a bit more about some personal things about my entrepreneurial and
travel journey. When I set out to try and design this life that I loved, it wasn't just the idea of work and
travel that was inspiring it.
It was really the idea of the whole kind of lifestyle that this was gonna look like, and
How I was going to design a life that worked around the kind of work and travel
I wanted to do. But there are lots of other parts of that which are still very important to me.
And it just so happens that my lovely friend Laura, who is another entrepreneur/
young woman who is obsessed with travelling like me... she has tagged me to show you my vision board.
I've seen a few of these videos
I really like the idea, and I was planning on doing one anyway.
But mine is a little bit different because instead of doing a big board with kind of cutting and sticking,
Collage-type-style that I see a lot of people do, I have decided to draw mine,
which works perfectly for me because if I am traveling around then it's much easier to take this with me than it is a
Big board. If you don't know what a vision board is, basically it is, it's some kind of tangible
Object that you put together, you create and you put on it
Anything that you see in the bigger vision of what you want your life to look like. And you can do it for anything! You
Could do one relating to work one, relating to travel... this one just covers the next few months
I would say, maybe years for some of the points.
But it was really a great exercise to just get me to think outside the box about
What direction I'm heading in in my life.
And whether you believe in like the law of attraction and things like that or not,
I think having something like this that you can constantly look at and
Think about and remind you why you're doing what you're doing is a great way to stay on track with your goals.
So thank you Laura for the tag, and let's just get into it!
And so I'm just going to start to talk you through some of the points.
We're gonna start with travel, so you can see that I've drawn a picture of a plane over here.
I'm not the world's best drawer,
But I was pretty impressed with how well I did with some of these to be honest. You can also see I've got some pictures
Over here of destinations I'd like to go to.
I wrote out a lot of my goals and just literally spelt them out,
but there are a lot of pictures that symbolize things, too.
So I want to leave Europe at least once by the end of 2018.
I've got a few ideas of where that could be, but you'll see here this picture's meant to represent, New York.
I've got little island to represent Bali
And then I attempted to draw South America because that is a continent I've never been to, and there are so many
Countries there that I would love to go to. Let's move down and talk about humans
I want to surround myself with inspiring people whose visions are aligned with mine. Now,
I think there's a lot to be said for spending time with other people who are
Different to you and give you a different perspective and challenge your views; a lot of my best friends are not
The same as me in many ways. And I think it would be boring if that were the case,
However when I spend time around people who "get" me, who understand the kind of thing I'm doing, it really helps me to feel
Energized. And I think since I do spend most of my time working by myself,
It's really important to to feed those types of relationships.
That kind of feeds into the last point which is give more to and feed healthy personal relationships. This is important for anyone, but but
Particularly me over the last couple of years. It's been something I've really been trying hard to pay attention to and
It's something you learn as you grow up, that it's really not quality... no...
it is really not quantity, but quality when it comes to friendships and
Close relationships, so I would rather have a few friends who I know are really gonna be there for me when I need them.
But equally I want to be there for them,
and I really want to feed more into those relationships and give more than I'm taking. And then the middle one - I
did it in a weird order - is
To go to another big travel or film conference by the end of the year, I went to VidCon at the end of March. It
completely refreshed my perspective and
reminded me why I'm doing this in the first place, and
Meeting like-minded people has such a positive effect on your outlook on things.
I think it was really responsible for some of the successes I've seen over the last few weeks, too, because I
Just felt motivated and energized go back into the things that I love doing. So I think another
Event would be a great way to kind of top up that motivation and that
Sensation. Let's move down here and talk a little bit about money. I don't think that money
should be
Obsessed over, and I know it's the source of a lot of worries for people and it's the source of a lot of greed for
People. But I don't think money is inherently bad, and I really want to cultivate a healthier relationship with money. Over here I've written down
"Deposit for a lovely Brussels flat". I don't think I mentioned this yet, this is the second time
I'm filming this because I actually lost the footage and the first time I filmed it.
I drew this vision board about three weeks ago some of these have already started to manifest themselves into my life
And I think I would talk more about that in a future video.
5k months by June... now what this means is that I have this target when I set out starting my business,
And it was that I wanted to be having consistent
$5,000 months by
April/May/June time... it's April now. It's nearly the end of April. I'm not on track for that, however
it's not June yet, so
I'm gonna keep working towards that. Easily pay taxes in August. In August I will need to pay my taxes for
2017 from when I was freelancing in Italy, and I want to be able to part with that money without batting an eyelid.
Essentially a big goal for me, again, is to be consistently growing my income every single month.
It's been kind of sporadic because it's the early days of my new business,
But I want to be growing this way in terms of my income. Multiple consistent streams of income by the end of 2018.
Right now I guess I have one main one.
I have a couple of little ones that like drip in some money here and there,
But I want to have
multiple streams of income that I can rely on and
I want to be building up some passive income as well, ideally.
I'm not gonna put all my eggs in one basket. In this world online things can change so quickly,
And you know what? It can be fun, as long as I'm as long as I'm managing my time
Well. Which leads me to this point: 20 hour work week.
I'm working towards this, and when I reach that, I'll assess whether I want to be working fewer hours than that, even.
I want to work for myself because I want to have more freedom.
I think this is completely possible, so it's on the vision board. Own studio: this is one
I very much doubt I will be getting this year, but in the long run
I want so much towards having my own studio space. I have a very clear vision in my head of what
I would like it to look like. I think to begin with it's probably just gonna be like a little office,
maybe like a second bedroom in an apartment that I move into. In the long run
I would love to have a little building very close to where I'm living where I can go and edit and film and
Just spend my working time. Self-growth: this is something which I think is really important,
And I added it almost just an afterthought onto this board,
But actually it's it's essential to everyone. Especially with things like entrepreneurship:
I'm finding out so much about myself, and I think that's completely
normal of
entrepreneurship, because it really forces you to come to terms with
How you are holding yourself back,
How you thrive and how you work the best and you learn so many things about your personality along the way. So
Consistently having me time is something that's really important. I don't do this efficiently right now. I have a lot of
In-between time around "kind of working", "kind of not".
Oh, I'm working again this weekend, but it's okay,
because I only have to do like an hour here... an hour turns into two hours, because it's actually quite fun
And I decided to do it while I'm watching Netflix, or something. That's not the kind of life
I want to be living. Not that there's anything wrong with that,
I would just rather use my time more efficiently.
Consistently having time for me, that is just for me:
I'm not planning out a YouTube video... that stuff's fun,
But that stuff fits into another category of my life.
Find things to do for pure joy. I love making videos
I love planning videos. I love all these things and that's why it's so easy for me to
Let those things eat into my personal time... one of the reasons.
but I
want to find more things that I can do just because I enjoy them; not things that I'm
Monetizing for my business, not things that are feeding into bigger ideas for what I'm doing in the future.
Although when you do find the time to do stuff for pure joy, you actually find that those ideas come to you much more easily.
Right now I'm doing things like reading in the park.
Let's go down here to YouTube. YouTube is a big part of my life now,
It's probably the main premise that my business today was built on. Tt's only natural that it should have its own category.
Reaching 10,000 subscribers by the end of 2018. As I'm looking at this now, there's almost a bit of me
That's resentful of the fact that I've reduced it down to numbers, but I think that by putting a numerical value on it
It's going to help me to keep more focused it's going to
Encourage me to be making more content, to be marketing that content and to be improving the content
I'm making. I want to build a community who cares about creating an intentional life and travel and self-employment
These are all things that are really important to me that are the center the core of my youtube channel and the core of
What drives me to do what I do.
I want to be able to build a community of people who care about the same kinds
Of things that I do. I want to
Curate those kinds of individuals, and bring them all into one place and give them something that inspires them... that
Gives them a taste of the things that they love and are as passionate about as me!
That's the essence which is behind the numbers.
Collaborate with like-minded people
It fits into a lot of the other categories here, but I think that not just SURROUNDINGyourself with the people that you
Love the way they think and feel that you can learn something from them, but actually WORKING with them...
You can learn so much more from them. Not just in terms of the work
You're doing, but their perspective on life
And how it is that they see the world. Qe should be valuing our time and not wasting it on
People who don't deserve it. It's not to say the people who don't think the same as you are
worse than you, or you're better than them. It's just: think about who you really want to become and
Invest in those people. So the last point is up here,
Which is two videos per week by the end of 2018. I always go back and forth on this, and at the moment
I'm just not at a point where I'm managing my time efficiently enough - or maybe I've got too much going on,
I think it's probably the first one -
To be putting out two videos a week. One video a week is my limit right now, and since writing this,
I'm so torn on quality versus quantity,
Because I really want to push myself to be a better filmmaker.
Let me know what you think about that in the comments, please. Would you rather see more frequent content from me, or
Perhaps less frequent, but better quality things: more like my travel diaries
Which I did back when I first started my channel and was posting very sporadically.
Experiences is my last category on here. So the thing about experiences,
Is that the biggest revelation that I had in my life was (it sounds dramatic,
But I really think it's true) when I was doing my year abroad,
That year when I was away from the UK, I learnt so much about myself.
It's such a huge cliche, but I really discovered about what it is I'm passionate about.
I really had the courage to
Go out there, and go for what I really wanted. Because before that I wasn't entirely sure what I wanted. I
Discovered that, you know what? The world is my oyster, and I can do anything
I want to do. And all of that came about from trying something new, and
Pushing myself out of my comfort zone. And while I tried to push myself out of my comfort zone consistently,
I'm really doing a lot to do with filmmaking and digital marketing. So trying something completely new I think would be great for me.
Something like surfing is one that's been on my list for a while. Aand I don't have to be good at it,
I just have to have fun with it!
More offline and outside time: healthy boundaries. Again, this fits in with me just having time where I'm 100%
Working, 100% not working: having those boundaries is gonna
Make it so much better when I do get that time to just be outside in nature.
I forgot to mention this picture up here, this was based off of a Maria Andrews
Illustration that I saw. If you're not familiar with her work on Instagram, I will link it in the description.
Your life: and it's pointing to the big circle. This moment: it's a tiny dot. And I get really worked up sometimes,
I just feel like I'm not achieving anything and
Then a few hours, maybe a few days later
I think "hang on, that was one tiny blip and this huge thing that is
The rest of my life".
You may have noticed that I've conveniently missed out this little illustration over here
And it's because I wanted to save it until last
This is a picture that I've drawn of Mount, Kilimanjaro
Now this is without a doubt my most ambitious
goal that I have on this vision board and
by talking about this I'm
Holding myself accountable for it. And I'm at a point now where I need to decide: am
I really gonna go for this, or is this just something
I'm thinking about that will maybe happen next year or the year after that.
My idea is to
climb Mount Kilimanjaro - the tallest freestanding mountain in the world - and
To make a movie about it, or a series about it, or some kind of video all about that process.
My idea is to reach out to companies to get sponsors who would maybe
donate products, and you know I have to work out the details about
Where the distribution of this is even going to be. Is it something on my youtube channel?
Or is it something that I make for a company?
But my idea is to get a partner to do this with me. I would like to find another female content creator
Who is up for this challenge.
I'm not sporty at all
I haven't done proper exercise in... I can't even remember.
It's not something
I say light-heartedly, and I know that altitude sickness and things like that are all very real
Concerns which can happen to you when you're taking on a physical challenge like this.
It's the reason I would like another person to do this with me.
And I do say that I would like a female content creator to come with me, because I see so many male
adventurer filmmakers,
Or a lot of guys go and do these kinds of things and I don't see as many women taking on these challenges.
I know they're out there,
I think they're more difficult to find, and I don't think that they get as much attention as they deserve.
But things like motion sickness
if we are suffering from that and if we're having trouble filming ourselves as we're going up the mountain. you know
It's hard enough to film yourself as it is, let alone when you're taking on a huge physical challenge.
And that's another reason I think it would be a great idea.
I really have to get on and start planning this project.
Isn't that kind of crazy?
And that brings me to the end of
My vision board, or at least this version of it. It's gonna be really exciting for me over
The next few months to see which of these I really go for, I think having them on paper is gonna hold me a lot
more accountable.
Not even accountable, but just remind me that this is what you really want.
So I'm so excited to see where it takes me, and I'm excited to take you with me for the journey.
Thank you so much for watching, guys. Please leave me a comment and let me know:
What is one of your big goals to achieve by the end of this year?
I'm loving interacting with you in the comments,
And thank you so much to those of you have been so supportive in my uploads over the last few weeks.
It's always really exciting for me to see your feedback everybody put something new out there.
So if you enjoyed this video thumbs up. If you want to see
how many of these I actually accomplish over the next few months, hit subscribe and
I will see you it on my next video. Thanks for watching guys. Goodbye!
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