Keep your sword sharp (this ain’t about swords)
Have you guys felt like lately things are different or something like somehow your sword is not as sharp or somehow you lost your footing I don’t know I don’t want to speak for you I’m speaking for myself I just feel like things are not the same anymore somehow somehow it’s different somehow I don’t know like I’m trying but it doesn’t seem like it’s enough you know I’ve been thinking about the YouTuber Hamza maybe you know him I remember he used to be posting
Something like every single day his whole thing was like he would turn young man young men into good men you know his thing was the Jeffrey to Adonis transformation that was the whole thing he was like the Gateway I guess but I think that I I’ve been thinking recently like that’s what this last week has kind of been it’s just me thinking about like what is this channel what is my channel for and I was thinking about what what
Was his channel and I think that his channel was more than just a Gateway because he was posting some every single day and even if he wasn’t it was two days later you know like he was very consistent and I think that’s something that um you know people who make videos about Hamza like Hamza fell off sure he did I mean like yeah I agree he did he hasn’t posted now for like a month or something so I don’t know what
He’s up to he he’s doing his own thing you know like I it doesn’t really affect me but it kind of does affect me because even though his old self-improvement videos are still there his thing was like he’s got something new for me every day you know it’s it’s kind of more resistance for me to go back and watch his old videos because that just seems like a waste of time to me it doesn’t seem so
Unproductive to like hear about his new insights you know so where does that leave us now we have no longer been watching Hamza for one reason or another because we don’t need to know about that stuff anymore we already know everything I’m already past that point of self-improvement are you am I I know I’m not I’ve realized that I’m not better than his old videos you know better than how he was three years ago these past
Couple weeks have been teaching me that I still don’t know and I don’t think that I ever will we need constant reminders of the way that things are you know we need constant reminders and those videos were our reminders you know not only were they getting us into the space but every single day you were learning something new you know one day he’s telling you just go talk to the girl and then maybe you actually follow his
Advice and you take the actionable step and you go talk to the girl that you’ve been prolonging talking to because you’re afraid but he made you less afraid and then you do it and then it goes terrible and then later on he tells you go talk to the girl but this time make sure to focus on your breathing you know breathe like into your stomach and slowly exhale make sure to focus on that when you’re talking to her something like
That you know like there’s always something new you know you’re getting the ball rolling you’re you’re pushing things forward hamza’s been gone and like you know his longer style format videos are also great but it’s just I think and it’s not about quality versus quantity it’s like his videos before were quality and quantity which I think we we needed both of them you know and I don’t think that it’s unreasonable to ask that of somebody because he proved it to be possible he
Showed us that you can produce useful content and you can produce it a lot you know what I mean like okay what the am I trying to even say right now I’m I think because we need to have this in our lives still maybe the only way that you had this was Hamza Maybe not maybe you have your your dad or your somebody in your life you know who kind of is there to remind you about
But for me like I don’t I I think that’s why I’ve been slipping because I’ve been kind of forgetting about all that you know like I’m back I’m actually back using my phone like I’m on Instagram and I’m just I see myself in the third person like just watching it’s a big waste of time if I wasn’t doing that I wonder where I would be and so you need to remember this man you need to remember that your phone is
Um it’s not really your friend you know don’t be on your phone so much like imagine the that you could be doing if you weren’t on your phone imagine who you could be if you weren’t prolonging yourself why do you prolong yourself what is on your phone like it it almost seems different now because like when I see these videos on Instagram it’s like holy were these funny like I feel like they’re funnier now but no amount like there is no one video
That’s just going to like make me happy you know like I’m never gonna get there even if I it’s like sometimes it’s it’s just not worth it you know I I don’t know I’m not like as good of a a Persuader as Hamza but like just don’t go on your phone man don’t like it’s not NE like what’s on there for you my thing is like there’s a girl on Instagram that I talk to I don’t know I I have to I have to
Deal with it I have to get over it maybe I’ll transfer over to a different like like I’ll get her phone number or something because Instagram is now working for me it’s taking too much time away from from me not not just like me talking to her I think that talking to her I think that talking to friends I think talking to family is a is a productive use of time you know it’s not unproductive it’s good
To talk to people but like just being on Instagram and then I also look at posts on the side like while I’m talking to her it just it drags me in too far so the point of this video all that I’ve been thinking about this past week is that we need to remind ourselves if you want to do that on your own if you want to keep yourself in check through journaling you know like what I was trying to do what I’m still
Going to try to do then do that you know I think that you should do that like it’s important for you to to see your habits where you’re going wrong and what you’re doing good you know always try to see what you can improve not in a way that’s um overbearing and uh like too much you know it’s just always a criticism against yourself but like do you want to stay the same forever I don’t I think this is the way I think
I’m that’s what I want my channel to be actually I’ve been thinking about that this week we need somebody who is like Hamza like I I don’t know I I think he got to the point where he seems like that stuff is not important to him anymore like it’s not relevant I know but he whatever I don’t know I don’t want to speak for him I can speak for myself that’s what I want this channel to be I’m going to be trying to
Post even more on here lately I mean lately like more in the future in the in the near future and hopefully the long-term future because more than YouTube just being about the money like this is how you grow I think if you’re not always um checking in on yourself then then you’ll go back to using your phone all the time you know I still have my my phone on on black and white filter you know grayscale because of Hamza I got to
The point where I didn’t have I didn’t even have YouTube installed and I was fine I was living I felt more present before with my family I feel like a dick now again so this is your reminder to remind yourself okay remember I if if you feel like you’ve fallen off remember the things that you were doing before and go back to them you know not the not the bad stuff I mean the good stuff like I had YouTube and Instagram
Not on my phone and I don’t even remember when they got back on my phone but they’re there now so yeah anyway like I don’t have anything really specific to tell you but I think we need somebody like Hamza still and I want to be like that you know because I think even though the message gets repeated over and over again just like I’m doing this video I feel like I’ve been saying the exact same thing thing over and over
Again we need constant reminders so that’s what I want to be on YouTube
Now think that’s everything I don’t I don’t like I just I didn’t really have a plan for this video so sorry if there’s a lot of pauses in between my speech that’s everything I have for today man take care